Untamed is an American crime drama television series for Netflix set in Yosemite National Park starring Eric Bana, Lily Santiago, Rosemarie DeWitt and Sam Neill. It was released on July 17, 2025, on Netflix. Originally pitched as a limited miniseries, it was renewed for a second season in July 2025.
In the vast expanse of Yosemite National Park, a woman's death draws a federal agent into lawless terrain, where nature obeys no rules but its own.
Untamed is produced by Warner Bros. Television and studio-based John Wells Productions. It is written by Mark L. Smith and Elle Smith, who are also co-showrunners and executive producers alongside Eric Bana, who also stars, John Wells and Erin Jontow via John Wells Productions; Todd Black and Tony Shaw for Escape Artists Entertainment; Steve Lee Jones for Bee Holder Productions; and Cliff Roberts for Syndicate Entertainment. Sam Neill, Lily Santiago, Rosemarie DeWitt and Wilson Bethel joined the cast in June 2024. Filming for the series began in Vancouver, British Columbia in June 2024. Filming locations included Chip Kerr Park.
Originally pitched as a limited miniseries, on July 29, 2025, the series was renewed by Netflix for a second season. In February 2026, Shea Whigham, Moon Bloodgood, and Kekoa Kekumano joined cast in starring roles while Kelly Hu, Myra Molloy, Matthew Keoni Sato, Robbie Magasiva, Branscombe Richmond, Moronai Kanekoa, Joe Tippett, and Luciane Buchanan were cast in recurring capacities for the second season.
Untamed premiered on July 17, 2025.
Untamed ranked first on Netflix's English-language TV list for the week of July 14 to 20, 2025, drawing 24.6 million views. For the second week in a row, the series was ranked first again on Netflix's English-language TV list from July 21 to 27, drawing 26.1 million views.
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 83% approval rating based on 64 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Wrangled by Eric Bana's steady star power, Untameds solid murder mystery is elevated by the visually sumptuous backdrop of its Yosemite National Park milieu." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, gave a score of 62 out of 100 based on 24 critics, indicating "generally favorable".
Rebecca Onion of Slate said, "Bana and Smith know how to keep you watching, even when parts of the story start to feel familiar. In the summer, we're all tourists. A Yosemite story hits just right." Reviewing the series for The Guardian, Rebecca Nicholson gave a rating of 3/5. She described it as "not the smartest of thrillers, but those mountains sure are lovely to look at." Ben Travers of IndieWire gave a critical review with a Câ and wrote, "By the end, Untamed can only offer more of the same, despite ample opportunity to provide something 'different'."