Netflix could produce Smooth but empty generic science fiction actuators such as “the electrical state”, “ But he is also responsible for exhibiting viewers on international cinema and television that they would not meet otherwise. 2024 SAW Mexican Drama Series “The accident” Get Get Worldwide Success on Netflix And An Indian criminal drama that demanded attention climbed the stream ranking the previous year. In other words, Netflix is ​​not at the origin of the Russo brothers, and the last international success on service is a good reminder of this fact.

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The Spanish series “The Gardener”, or “El Jardinner”, is a criminal thriller with a sprinkled romance and seems to have touched a sensitive string with the viewers of Netflix. Álvaro Rico plays the role of Elmer, a gardener who could not feel emotions following a car accident when he was a child. Naturally, Elmer’s mother, China Jurado (Cecilia Suárez), did what any attentive parent would do and capitalized on the inability of her son to feel by transforming him into a hitman. While the pair of mother and sons runs a garden center, they also run a business murder company which sees Elmer kill various victims and bury them in the middle of his impressive flowers. Unfortunately for his mother, after Elmer is responsible for assassinating the Professor of Kindergarten Violeta (Catalina Sopelana), he is rather in love with her, suggesting that her feelings are not as dead as they seemed to him. This encourages her mother to do everything she can to fulfill the contract despite her son’s new capacity to establish a human connection.

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Shot in the Spanish places of Pontevedra, Toledo and Madrid, “The Gardener” certainly has the brilliant premium premium that we expect from these Netflix series, and although this silky bokeh can often have an attempt to distract because the spectacle itself is not in fact a good, it managed not only to strike the graphics in the United States but to become a worldwide success.

Netflix has served decent offers so far this year. Fans of Agatha Christie undoubtedly loved the series of mysteries of à la carte “The Residence” when he hit Netflix in March, and now Disturbing documentation on Kidfluers takes up the charts of Netflixwhich should be simultaneously fascinating and exasperating. Now, “The Gardener” has arrived to keep viewers in a trance induced by the stream, and so far it works.

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The six -episodes series struck Netflix on April 11, 2025 and according to the streaming viewers tracker Flixpatrolquickly became a success. In the United States, the show reached number six on the most watched television tables on April 12, before switching to number three the next day. From April 14, the show remains in the third place, but could well continue its impressive climb to take first place over the week.

Even if that cannot really manage this, “The Gardener” has already exceeded the charts in other countries. At the time of writing the editorial staff, the series is number one in 54 countries, and even more impressive, was the number one since its debut in Netflix on 26 of these markets. “The Gardener” is traced in 88 countries overall and is not below number five in all except three of them. All this makes this romantic criminal thriller a worldwide success. That he can maintain his momentum remains to be seen, but whatever you look at him, it is a fairly impressive beginning and landed “the gardener” in third place in the world’s Netflix charts (according to Flixpatrol).

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At the time of writing the time of writing, there are no better criticisms of criticism for “The Gardener” on Rotten Tomatoes, which makes it difficult to measure the way in which the Spanish thriller was received. However, there are two criticisms of criticism, which are both negative and one, one of which is externally hostile to the show. On IMDB“The Gardener” has a note of 6.2 out of ten based on 620 reviews, which does not allow the most reliable indication of its quality, but take this for what you want.

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As anyone who even pays a little attention to the developments in the streaming sphere will know, however, the quality of a show or a film is absolutely no indication of the way it will get by on the cards of the different platforms. Devil, we have seen Kevin Hart “lift” prevails in the Netflix ranking And Sandra Bullock has just scored a Hit Hulu with a horror that carries a RT score of 7% really horrible. The series are not much better either. Despite interesting things that have emerged in recent months, we are only going over time A Tyler Perry series prospered in the Netflix charts Despite having been described by The guardian Like “a disaster with one -dimensional characters and a random plot”.

As such, there is everything to play with regard to “the gardener” and his chances of hitting the number one. In order to take first place in the United States and around the world, the series will have to dethrone the aforementioned Kidfluvence documentary and the new season of “Black Mirror”, who, considering the criticism of the film supposed that the British show is out of ideasmight not be so difficult.

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