Netflix’s Best New 100% Rotten Tomatoes Scored Show Is Worth Watching

InnovationGamingNetflix’s Best New 100% Rotten Tomatoes Scored Show Is Worth WatchingByPaul Tassi,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet.Follow AuthorJun 09, 2026, 10:30am EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.The WitnessNetflixIt’s always noteworthy when Netflix produces a new series that lands a 100% Rotten Tomatoes critic score. Sometimes that’s deserved, other times less so, but in this case, I’ve actually already watched the entire thing, and I can say that this is the former.The show is The Witness, a new limited series, very limited, with just three episodes, dramatizing the real-life killing of Rachel Nickell in the UK in 1992. The horrifying addendum was that her two-year-old son was the only witness to the crime, and had to draw on limited memory and communication skills to try and convey details about the murderer, who was, in fact, caught and convicted 16 years later.The show splits time between when young witness Alex Handscombe and his father Andre were in the days, weeks and months after the murder as the police attempted to solve the case, and years later when Alex was a teen, and the case was reopened. The real murderer, Robert Napper, was eventually found through new evidence, including new DNA tech.The story of The Witness is not just a tragedy on a human level; it’s also focused on the incompetence of the Metropolitan Police, who falsely accused a man of the crime and attempted to use a honeytrap to get him to incriminate himself. Charges were brought, but ultimately dismissed due to the controversial method. Stagg, the falsely accused, sued the police and eventually received £706,000 and a public apology. Even the undercover agent used to entrap Stagg sued and settled. It was also found that the police had many chances to apprehend Robert Napp...