Critics are tearing these 2 new Netflix series to shreds and one has a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes

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Netflix releases so many series from week to week that it’s just not possible for every new release or even the vast majority of them to turn into a hit for the streaming giant. There’s too much content for them all to be a winner, compared to the more boutique and curated approach of a rival like HBO. Two of Netflix’s most recent series, meanwhile, have received particularly scathing reviews from critics, one of which is apparently so bad it earned itself a rare 0% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

The two new series in question are the raunchy thriller Obsession and the crime drama Florida Man.

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The former of these two, a 4-part limited adaptation of Josephine Hart’s short story, Damage, is the most widely streamed of the pair. It got terrible ratings for Rotten Tomatoes from critics and fans (43% and 21%, respectively). It gives us an overload of shlock, ominous string music and a few depressing, grumpy hits, a reviewer laments of the series, in which a British politicians’ affair with her son’s fiancé makes Fifty Shades feel like of grays meet Anatomy of a Scandal.

Adds another unimpressed reviewer: It’s about our lowest impulses overriding our circuits, driving us crazy. But at one point, Richard Armitage aggressively tries to have sex with a bed and starts crying, so it’s pretty hard to take seriously.

The second of two new Netflix series to meet with less than enthusiastic reception, meanwhile, is Florida Man, a detective series whose title plays with the real-world meme and comes from production company Jason Batemans.

Particularly interesting is the response to this series in which Edgar Ramirez plays struggling ex-cop Mike Valentine, a gambling addict who owes money to a Philadelphia mobster. As of this writing, it has a 0% review score on Rotten Tomatoes, but an 80% audience score on the review aggregation site. That’s quite a discrepancy, even though the 0% is based on five review takes at the moment (whereas the audience score is from over 50 users at the moment).

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Interestingly, these two new Netflix series have also been in the US Top 10 since Sunday (Obsession is No. 6, while Florida Man is No. 2 just behind Beef). This suggests, among other things, that the row of content inside the Netflix app titled Top 10 TV Shows in the US Today is more of a measure of novelty than anything else. That is: people see new shows coming to the app, and enough critical mass of subscribers then give them a try before, quite often, new releases continue to rack up scores and ratings. terrible ratings.

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