Netflix’s 100% Rotten Tomatoes Scored Crime Show Is Back After 5 Years

InnovationGamingNetflix’s 100% Rotten Tomatoes Scored Crime Show Is Back After 5 YearsByPaul Tassi,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet.Follow AuthorMay 08, 2026, 11:36am EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.The Chestnut Man: Hide and SeekNetflixWhile it may not have made Netflix’s top 10 list yet, a show has returned after a five-year hiatus, and it was previously tied as the best-reviewed crime series on the service. Well, you can’t really go higher than a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score, can you?The show is The Chestnut Man, the 2021 series based on Danish novelist Søren Sveistrup, who previously created The Killing. That arrived with a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score back then and a solid 84% from audiences. Now it has returned in the form of The Chestnut Man: Hide and Seek, a new book in the series released on March 26. Clearly, the show had been in the works for a while before that.The Chestnut Man: Hide and Seek is live today, and while it doesn’t have enough reviews in yet for a verified Rotten Tomatoes score, the ones that are published are stellar. It’s a thumbs up from RogerEbert.com, a 5/5 from Heaven of Horror and a 9/10 from Screenrant. So a 100% currently seems possible, if not likely, as more reviews roll in for this. Though I do think it’s getting a bit steamrolled right now, with perhaps not enough Netflix promotion to get it onto the charts. Foreign Netflix crime series often do very well, so it seems like this series, a follow-up to a fantastic original, should be a priority to push. We’ll see if that happens over this weekend. Here’s the synopsis to Hide and Seek:"Thirty years later, a woman is haunted by a string of anonymous text messages, repeating that same counting rhyme. Counting down. Found you. Detectives Naia Thulin and Mark Hess are ch...