‘Mindhunter’ Meets ‘Heat’ in the 100%-Rated Crime Hit That Just Toppled ABC’s Biggest Series

Published Aug 2, 2026, 7:45 PM EDT

Rohan Naahar is a News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he’ll watch anything once. He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.

The year 2026 has already produced several new critically acclaimed shows such as Widow’s Bay and ***Off Campus ***emerging as cultural phenomenons. Both shows are “Certified Fresh” with near-perfect scores on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. But now, a new show has debuted on Hulu with a perfect 100% score. The series follows an FBI agent on the hunt for a female serial killer, and is inspired by the 1987 film Black Widow, starring Debra Winger and Theresa Russell. Directed by New Hollywood legend Bob Rafelson, Black Widow was a box-office hit with a $25 million gross despite mixed reviews. The movie now holds a 58% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

The new show, which premiered with three episodes on July 27, was created by Elizabeth Meriwether, who remains best known for her work on the similarly acclaimed Hulu titles Dying for Sex and The Dropout. Meriwether’s new show stars Emmy Rossum as the investigator and **Lola Petticrew **as the serial killer. Rossum, of course, became a household name thanks to a leading role in the Showtime series Shameless, which ran for a decade. Petticrew, on the other hand, headlined the well-received FX series Say Nothing; she was recently seen alongside Gillian Anderson in the limited series Trespasses. Incidentally, both Say Nothing and *Trespasses *are set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.

Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.

Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.

Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.

Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.

Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.

Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.

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