Netflix fans struggle to sleep due to 'stress' of grisly crime drama getting rave reviews

Netflix fans are hooked on new gritty drama, Temple, which has a perfect score of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes

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Nov 24 2024
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Netflix fans struggle to sleep

Netflix fans are hooked on new grisly British drama, Temple - but there's just one problem.

The series, based on a Norwegian thriller, has bagged a perfect score of 100 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes. However, it's so intense, some fans have been left unable to sleep after watching it.

Temple stars Mark Strong as Daniel Milton, a surgeon who sets up an illegal clinic beneath Temple tube station in an attempt to save his dying wife, Beth.

The series, which also stars Line of Duty's Daniel Mays, follows Milton as he tries to save his partner, who has developed a fatal degenerative disease.

However, in order to fund his underground clinic he agrees to treat criminals and other desperate patients, who are unable to seek treatment from conventional doctors and hospitals.

Netflix fans are hooked on new gritty drama, Temple (Image: ©Sky UK Ltd)

Viewers have flocked to social media to share their thoughts on the series, which was was originally produced by Sky, with season one airing in 2019 and season two coming out in 2021.

Tagging one of the show's stars, one person wrote: "Just started to watch #Temple. Really really cool. I am hooked already." However, others said they couldn't sleep after watching the series, as one shared: "Temple on Netflix is so good but I'm so stressed" while another mused: "'Temple on Netflix. OMG I’m hooked. I always do this to myself before bedtime."

Meanwhile, a critic from the Evening Standard compared Temple to early Quentin Tarantino films. They wrote: "[Temple] feels, at times, like early Tarantino, with dodgy coppers and incompetent criminals, as [Mark] Strong holds the thing together with his glower."

The series is a variation of a Scandi-noir television show called Valkyrien, which follows the storyline, however the original clinic is housed in an old bomb shelter. Viewers who find themselves binging through the two series of Temple, can find the Norwegian version on Amazon Prime. It also sits with a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes' Popcornmeter, which is the website's audience rating.

Temple follows Daniel Milton (Mark Strong), a surgeon who has set up an illegal clinic within the London Underground tunnels for desperate patients, including his wife Beth (Catherine McCormack)

While Temple originally aired on Sky beginning in 2019, it has found a host of new fans already on its second home. It is not the first time a series has found a new life on Netflix, as Sky comedy Brassic, Channel 5 drama The Cuckoo and the RTE series Clean Sweep have all found new viewers on the platform.

Meanwhile, fans of Netflix's The Society are desperate for the show to get a second chance after it was axed in a shock move. The gripping teen drama, which hit screens in May 2019, had fans hooked and was all set for a second season.

However, COVID-19 struck a lethal blow, forcing Netflix to pull the plug on the series after just one season, leaving viewers devastated. There were hopes to kick off filming for a follow-up season in late summer 2020, but the streaming giant dashed the possibility, telling Deadline: "We've made the difficult decision not to move forward with second seasons of The Society and I Am Not Okay With This. We're disappointed to have to make these decisions due to circumstances created by COVID."

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