Netflix has cemented itself as the premier hub for true crime, much like Prime Video is considered the go-to for dad and teen content and Apple TV is the place to go for long-form sci-fi. With several major true-crime hits already under its belt this year, Netflix has set a high bar for itself. Its latest offering has not only lived up to expectations, but it has also exceeded them. It’s currently the number-one movie worldwide across the platform, and according to Netflix’s own data, has delivered a phenomenal viewership during its two weeks of release. The movie revisits a relatively recent case that shocked the world and left a community in mourning.
The movie in question found a top 10 spot in 82 countries, and the number one spot in 27 countries. It has spent two weeks in the top 10, jumping from the number three spot in the first week to the number one spot in its second week. It defeated the holdover hits Swapped and Apex to claim the Netflix crown, which is no petite feat considering the fact that both those hits have accumulated around 100 million views so far. The true-crime movie comes on the heels of popular hits such as The Investigation of Lucy Letby, and Should I Marry a Murderer? Next week, Netflix will release its latest genre offering, The Murder of Rachel Nickell, which will be accompanied by a narrative streaming series about the same case, titled The Witness.
Collider Exclusive · TV Medicine Quiz Which Fictional Hospital Would You Work Best In? The Pitt · ER · Grey’s Anatomy · House · Scrubs
Five hospitals. Five completely different ways medicine goes sideways on television — brutal, tumultuous, romantic, brilliant, and ridiculous. Only one of them is the ward your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out exactly where you belong.
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A critical patient comes through the door. What’s your first instinct? Medicine under pressure reveals who you actually are.
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Why did you go into medicine in the first place? The straightforward answer says more about you than the one you’d give in an interview.
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What do you actually want from the people you work with? Who you want beside you under pressure is who you are.
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You lose a patient you fought challenging to save. How do you carry it? Every doctor who’s worked a long shift has had to answer this question.
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How would your colleagues describe the way you work? Your reputation on the floor is usually more exact than your self-image.
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How do you feel about hospital protocol and procedure? Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice.
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What does this job cost you personally? Nobody works in medicine without paying a price. What’s yours?
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At the end of a long shift, what keeps you coming back? The answer to this question is the most straightforward thing about you.
Your Assignment Has Been Made You Belong In…
Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center
The Pitt
You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn’t let you look away.
You need your work to be real, not romanticised — meaning over drama, honesty over aesthetics.
You find purpose inside the work itself, not in the chaos surrounding it.
You’ve made peace with the fact that this job takes from you constantly, and gives back in ways that are harder to name.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center demands exactly that kind of person — and you would not want to be anywhere else.
County General Hospital, Chicago
ER
You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most imperative.
You show up, do the work, absorb the losses, and come back the next day without needing the job to be anything other than what it is.
You care about patients as individual human beings, not as cases to solve or dramas to live through.
You believe in the system even when it fails you — and you understand that emergency medicine is about holding the line just long enough.
ER is television about endurance. You have it.
Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, Seattle
Grey’s Anatomy
You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.
You feel things fully and form deep attachments to the people you work with.
Your personal and professional lives are permanently, chaotically entangled — and that entanglement drives both your greatest disasters and your most remarkable saves.
You understand that extraordinary medicine often happens at the intersection of clinical skill and profound human connection.
It’s messy at Grey Sloan. You would not have it any other way.
Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, NJ
House
You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn’t fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one.
You’re not primarily motivated by the patient as a person — though you are capable of caring, even if you’d deny it.
You work best when the stakes are highest and the standard answer is wrong.
Princeton-Plainsboro exists to house one extraordinary, impossible mind — and everyone around that mind is there because they’re sharp enough to keep up.
The only way forward here is to think harder than everyone else in the room. That is exactly what you do.
Sacred Heart Hospital, California
Scrubs
You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.
You are balmy, self-aware, and funnier than most people in your field.
You operate humour to get through terrible moments — and at Sacred Heart, that’s not a flaw, it’s a survival strategy.
You lean on the people around you and let them lean back. The laughter and the grief are genuinely inseparable here.
Scrubs is a show about learning to become someone worthy of the job. You are still very much in the middle of that process — which is exactly right.
Netflix’s Latest True-Crime Movie Is a Streaming Sensation
The streamer’s latest true crime hit is The Crash, which has accumulated approximately 35 million views in two weeks. The movie revisits the case of Mackenzie Shirilla, who, as a recent high school graduate, crashed her car at nearly 100 mph into the wall of a building, killing her boyfriend and his friend. Investigators discovered that the crash may not have been an accident, and that Shirilla could have had a reason to kill her boyfriend. The film includes interviews with Shirilla and her parents, and features investigators, prosecutors, and relatives of the deceased. The Crash was directed by Gareth Johnson, who previously directed the Netflix true-crime miniseries The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman, which was released in 2022. The Crash has received positive reviews and is sitting at a 92% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.
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