Forget 24, This 5-Season Action Thriller With A 100% Rotten Tomatoes Score Is Taking Over Netflix

Published Sep 13, 2026, 5:00 PM EDT Hannah Gearan (she/her) is has been writing for ScreenRant for over three years. Her deep cinema love traces back to age 11, when she equipped herself with a spiral-bound notebook, rated all the films she watched, and declared herself a critic. About a decade later, she received a BA from Wesleyan University, where she studied Film, Environmental Studies, and Writing. Hannah’s short film, Toxic Faucets, has screened at numerous film festivals, including the Independent Film Festival of Boston (IFFBoston). As a Movie News writer now, she draws upon her vast experience studying, making, and analyzing film as she approaches dynamic breaking stories. A newer name in the action-thriller genre is currently taking over the Netflix streaming charts. While countless action thriller shows are released, there are a few series whose names are touted year after year as among the best. 24 is notably one of these titles; the nine-season political thriller has continued to engage audiences even over 15 years after it wrapped up its tenure. More recently, Prime Video's Reacher has been another big name within this genre. Netflix is seeing a different action thriller title take over its charts now. Fauda is a docudrama political thriller series that chronicles a timely topic, exploring stories of human beings living on both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict. The series began in 2015 and has since had five completed seasons (the final of which just became available on Netflix on September 8). The show's leading cast includes Lior Raz, Itzik Cohen, Yaakov Zada-Daniel, Netta Garti, and Doron Ben-David. Fauda Is Dominating Netflix Fauda is proving to be an extremely popular title on Netflix in recent days, succeeding on the global charts. As of September 13, the series is the no. 6 most-streamed title among all the platform's TV shows worldwide. It beat out even WWE SmackDown, which is currently in the no. 7 spot on the same chart. Contributing to Fauda's rankings are multiple regional top 5 successes, including in Bahrain, Belgium, France, Greece, India, Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel. Fauda is also an extremely successful show when factoring in critical reviews. The series boasts an achievement very few shows get to: it holds a perfect 100% Tomatometer on Rotten Tomatoes. To get this status for a single season is notable, let alone maintaining it across five entire seasons of television. As the huge streaming success would indicate, audiences have also generally responded positively to Fauda, which holds an 83% audience Popcornmeter score. Fauda Is A More Grounded Version Of 24 MovieStillsDB Being a political thriller, Fauda holds some similarities with its older predecessor, 24. Both feature politics heavily as a point of tension and source of drama within the series. However, Fauda has been able to succeed even more among critics, likely due to its extremely grounded nature and basis in extremely relevant real-world topics. Fauda puts its best effort in to lean into the human side of these conflicts, depicting characters rather than just political proxies. In a highly polarized world and covering an extremely touchy subject, it seems like this is what audiences are looking for. Release Date 2015 - 2021 Network yes Directors Assaf Bernstein Cast Lior Raz, Tsahi Halevi, Tomer Capone, Hisham Suliman, Netta Garti, Shadi Mar'i, Yuval Segal, Doron Ben-David, Rona-Lee Shim'on, Laëtitia Eïdo, Itzik Cohen, Firas Nassar, Amir Khoury, Luna Mansour, Igal Naor, Raida Adon, Boaz Konforty, Jameel Khoury, Yaakov Zada Daniel, Marina Maximilian Blumin, Idan Amedi, Lucy Ayoub, Inbar Lavi, Amir Boutrous, Loai Nofi Creator(s) Lior Raz