We had one spy thriller starring Patrick Dempsey on Amazon Prime Video last week and now even more espionage fare is climbing up the Netflix ranking of top 10 TV shows.
Unfamiliar is a six-parter that might have only dropped on the streamer last week, but is already making waves with viewers.
The thriller follows a German married couple who are also ex-spies, living in Berlin and now running a safe house – until their past life as undercover agents catches up with them. Ominous!
Think The Americans, if they had fled their deep cover life and started a new one in the nick of time.
Things kick off with our couple Simon and Meret Schäfer (Felix Kramer and Susanne Wolff) celebrating their daughter Nina’s (Maja Bons) sweet 16th birthday. That is, until the phone rings.
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On the other end is a man claiming to be badly hurt and in need of refuge in their safe house.
But the former foreign intelligence agents grow suspicious when the man arrives and they see his wounds have been self-inflicted, he’s acting strangely and they can’t establish who exactly he is.
All is soon revealed: the man was sent by Josef Koleev (Samuel Finzi), a high-ranking Russian military intelligence officer, who has recently touched down in Berlin.
When the man who’s pitched up at their safe house starts to hint at a dire mission from 16 years ago in Belarus, which involved Koleev, they know they have a real problem on their hands.
As the official Netflix synopsis details: ‘That mission set them on their current path, and has defined their family’s life ever since – whether all of them are aware of it or not.
‘When new details emerge, Nina realises just how many skeletons are in her parents’ closet, and Meret uncovers Simon’s greatest betrayal.
‘Can the couple grapple with their past to save their family’s future? Or will their secrets be their undoing?’
What other thrillers can you stream now?
Steal. Ordinary office worker Zara (Sophie Turner) becomes entangled in a major heist at work alongside her best friend.
Memory of a Killer. Revolves around a later-in-life hitman who begins to develop dementia.
Clarice. A spin-off series for the widely-acclaimed Silence of the Lambs.
The Netflix show currently holds a 6.8 rating on IMDb, where one viewer described it as ‘smart, tense, suspenseful’, adding: ‘This is the best suspense series on Netflix in the past few months.’
While some have lodged complaints about the ending – no spoilers here – another viewer said the show kept them ‘hooked’ through the six episodes.
‘This one completely grabbed me,’ they wrote. ‘When things start going wrong, you realise nothing is what it seems.
‘What I liked most is that it’s actually smart. It’s not just explosions and gunfights-there’s real tension between the characters and actual mystery about who to trust.’
Meanwhile, Rama wrote on X: ‘Unfamiliar was twisted & unpredictable. The secrets had secrets. The show hit the ground running and it packed some serious punch. Gripping!’
Unfamiliar is available to stream on Netflix.
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