The Asset is off to a robust begin on Rotten Tomatoes after leaping into the Netflix prime 10 charts. Releasing on October 27, the Danish crime thriller present follows agent Tea (Clara Dessau) as she infiltrates a legal group, changing into hooked up to a drug lord’s girlfriend within the course of.
Following the discharge of its six-episode first season, The Asset now ranks because the primary TV present on Netflix worldwide, beating No person Needs This, Boots, Bodily: Asia, The Monster of Florence, and Promoting Sundown, amongst different titles. This viewership domination now accompanies a usually constructive response from critics.
Although solely 5 opinions have been added as of this writing, The Asset at present enjoys an 80% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from critics. This rating, after all, is prone to fluctuate as extra opinions are available in, but it surely nonetheless marks a decent begin for a sequence that’s already poised to be a win with Netflix subscribers.
Regardless of viewership robust sufficient to push it to the highest of Netflix’s worldwide TV prime 10 chart, there at present aren’t sufficient person opinions to generate a Popcornmeter rating. From the three out there to view, although, that are all constructive, The Asset might be poised to debut with a robust viewers rating within the coming days.
Contemplating it is nonetheless the primary week of The Asset‘s availability on Netflix, it being within the prime 10 is not essentially shocking, however the truth that it is primary might sign that it’ll proceed to get pleasure from a spot on the checklist within the weeks to return. This finally bodes effectively for a possible season 2, which doesn’t but have the inexperienced mild.
The constructive opinions are one other promising signal that the sequence will proceed to be a viewership draw. The Asset‘s constructive opinions reward the compelling character drama amidst moments of excessive suspense and intrigue, and the performances from Dessau, Maria Cordsen, Nicolas Bro, Afshin Firouzi, and Soheil Bavi, amongst others, are mentioned to be robust.
One criticism current in a number of opinions, although, is that The Asset does generally really feel predictable, particularly contemplating its style. Netflix has quite a few crime thriller reveals on provide for viewers now, together with hits like Black Rabbit, Ozark, and Untamed, and it appears like The Asset might battle to totally differentiate itself when it comes to its style conventions.
That being mentioned, there may be evidently consolation to be present in a well-executed crime thriller, and The Asset might push previous these criticisms, connecting to viewers due to its compelling characters. Attachment to characters, in spite of everything, is usually what pushes viewers to observe the whole lot of a present, and this might result in extra episodes arriving sooner or later.
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October 27, 2025
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Netflix
