NBC’s thriller collection, with an 18% Rotten Tomatoes rating, The Searching Occasion, is successful over Netflix subscribers after touchdown a spot on their Prime 10 chart.
The procedural crime drama follows an investigative staff that’s assembled to trace down and seize harmful killers who’ve escaped from a top-secret jail. The present premiered on NBC in January 2025, although the primary season was simply added to Netflix on February 15 to spice up viewership for The Searching Occasion season 2, which premiered January 8 on NBC.
Now, The Searching Occasion season 1 is No. 7 on Netflix’s International Prime 10 exhibits for the week of February 16–22 with 3.5 million views and 24.6 million hours seen. It ranks under Actuality Examine: Inside America’s Subsequent Prime Mannequin season 1 in first, The Evening Agent season 3, Bridgerton season 4, The Lincoln Lawyer season 4, Love Is Blind: Ohio, and Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Wealthy.
It ranks above His & Hers, Uncooked: 2026 (February 16), and Being Gordon Ramsay season 1 in tenth place. For this week, The Searching Occasion season 1 is a Prime 10 present on Netflix in just one nation – the US.
Created by JJ Bailey, The Searching Occasion follows a former FBI profiler, Rebecca Henderson (Melissa Roxburgh), who is named out of retirement alongside an elite staff of troopers, spies, and particular brokers to trace down and recapture the nation’s worst serial killers after a secret jail hidden beneath the Wyoming countryside explodes.
Aside from Melissa Roxburgh within the lead position, the present’s most important forged additionally consists of Nick Wechsler, Patrick Sabongui, Josh McKenzie, and Sara Garcia, whereas Zabryna Guevara, Kari Matchett, Matt Frewer, and Siobhan Williams seem in recurring roles.
Notable additions to the forged for season 2 embody Luke Forbes in a recurring position, alongside Eric McCormack and Niecy Nash-Betts as particular visitor stars.
Regardless of its recognition on Netflix and NBC, The Searching Occasion has acquired primarily damaging opinions, leading to season 1’s terrible 18% Rotten Tomatoes rating, with critics calling it compelling on paper however disappointingly flat in observe, because the present rushes via its serial-killer chaos with little care, leading to one other forgettable procedural amongst numerous others.
Season 2 doesn’t but have a Rotten Tomatoes rating from critics.
Nevertheless, The Searching Occasion has acquired way more optimistic reactions from audiences, indicated by season 1’s 81% rating and season 2’s 82% rating from that group, leading to one of many extra divisive collection in current reminiscence.
- Launch Date
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January 19, 2025
- Administrators
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Thor Freudenthal, Glen Winter, James Bamford, Nicole Rubio, Rod Hardy, Shana Stein, Blackhorse Lowe, Marcus Stokes, Kristin Windell
- Writers
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David Loong, JJ Bailey, Jake Coburn, Keto Shimizu, Michael Jones-Morales, Paula Sabbaga, Rebecca Bellotto, Vinny Ferris
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Melissa Roxburgh
Rebecca ‘Bex’ Henderson
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