Netflix , here in the final leg of the year, premiered a new series that immediately restructured my best-of list for 2025. It pretty much kicked all the titles aside, claiming its spot at the proverbial mountaintop.

I'm talking about The Beast in Me, the taut new psychological thriller that hit Netflix last week. I had seen the title art rolling across my TV screen, but it wasn't until I heard series star Claire Danes speak about the show on a recent episode of the SmartLess podcast that I decided to give this title a try.

Needless to say, I finished it in three days. Since then, I've not been able to shake it from my being. This isn't a complaint. See at Netflix

The Beast in Me stars Danes as Aggie Wiggs, an author struggling to reclaim literary glory after suffering a fam

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