Netflix's 'Jaws' Replacement Thriller Scores Scary Good Rotten Tomatoes Debut

Published Oct 9, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT

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Following his role in the Oscar-winning biopic Oppenheimer, **Josh Hartnett **has been treating fans to one film per year. In 2024, he starred in M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap, and in 2025, he delighted fans with James Madigan’s action-packed feature debut, Fight or Flight. Then, just as Hartnett’s 2026 film comes to the box office, he drops a brand-new series on streaming to establish himself as one of the most popular actors this week.

Last weekend — following the box office success of It Ends with Us, Regretting You, and Reminders of Him — the latest **Colleen Hoover **adaptation, Verity, made its theatrical debut to similar triumph. Although poor reviews once again hit a Hoover adaptation, fans weren’t deterred, helping the film earn a strong opening weekend haul of around $60 million worldwide. **Anne Hathaway **leads the cast of the psychological thriller, joined by **Dakota Johnson **and the aforementioned Hartnett. Whilst Hartnett is topping the box office, he’s also making a splash on the streaming charts.

In the new six-episode miniseries Below, Hartnett stars as a man hoping to protect his community from the terrifying threat that hides in their waters. For those living in the remote Canadian fishing village of Snook’s Arm, an ancient sea creature is stirring. Written and created by The Umbrella Academy’s Jesse McKeown, the series also features Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things), **Mackenzie Davis **(The Martian), **Ruby Stokes **(Rocks), and more. As *Below *makes its bid to sink the competition and top the Netflix charts, the first reviews are in, and the new series is impressing with an 81% average score on the review site Rotten Tomatoes, at the time of writing. The audience rating currently sits at 65% and is likely to change drastically over the coming days.

Four Netflix characters, four completely different ways of showing up for somebody. This is the one who fits how you actually do friendship, and what having them in your life would be like.

You do not do friendship at half volume, and neither does he. What you want is somebody who says yes to the plan before you have finished describing the

You are the friend who makes things happen, and so is she. Together you would be mildly exhausting to everyone around you and completely delighted with

You have no patience for pleasant lies, and she has no ability to tell them. What looks like coldness from the outside is the most reliable friendship on this

You look after whoever is having the worst day. So does he. It is the least strategic way to move through the world and the best possible quality in a friend.

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