UNTAMED - Netflix Series

UNTAMED | Official Trailer | Netflix
Netflix

Pretty good murder mystery set in Yosemite National Park, so lots of cool wilderness scenery along with a number of big animals. Six short episodes (45 minutes each) and we watched three of them last night. We've got four murders so far and even though they are separated by a period of years, you just know they are all going to be tied to some evil nut job. Meanwhile, we've got all the typical cop show pathos: the tough cop who antagonizes his coworkers and family, divorces, traumatized citizens, annoying high level bureaucrats and sleazy druggies hanging out in sleazy places, plus the usual assortment of skin colors. On the plus side we have plenty of scenes of out in the wilderness.

Yosemite National Park

Yosemite is roughly the same size as Rhode Island, they are both a shade over 1,000 square miles. This is the only map I found that showed the park in relation to its neighborhood. There are lots of maps of the park, but they typically only show the park and just a bit beyond the borders. Google Maps only shows a placemark, it doesn't show the borders of the park at all.

Painting of Yosemite by Heinrich C. Berann. Aerial view of the entire park from the west, looking east. 

Wikipedia has an interactive version of this map. Mouse over the picture and it will name the various features.

Show opens with a scene of a couple of guys climbing the face of half dome. I hate these kind of scenes, because if in it's in a show you just know somebody is going to fall and die, and somebody does, but it's not one of the climbers.

P. S. Cute little bit of bio-metric tom-foolery -  Our guy finds the dead girl's phone, but it's locked using facial recognition. The coroner helps him out by first opening the dead girls eyes and then putting eye-drops in. That doesn't work, so he swabs her face with formaldehyde saying it will warm her skin and it might be enough to get past the bio-metric lock, and what do you know? It does, the phone is unlocked and our guy finds some crucial evidence. Ain't technological fairy tales wonderful?