Netflix is known for a lot. There are amazing true crime documentaries and general action thrillers as you can see, but in a very different, culturally-like way of death. There was also Kevin Hart’s “Lift,” which reached number one on Netflix in 2023. So we are still waiting for a formal apology. But if there’s one more thing that streamer King is known to be, it must be a crime thriller series (and a dangerous dating show).
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Netflix has provided truly memorable crime series, including the new chart-crushing murder mystery show “The Residence.” However, it is also known for exposing Western audiences to offering more diverse genres. Specifically, there was no shortage of European crime thrillers that could have attracted global attention on the platform. It appears that Germany has cornered this particular Netflix market. There was “Schlafende Hunde” (“Sleeping Dog”), a crime thriller series that was able to break the top ten on Netflix in 2023. Then there were “Dear Child” and another offering from Deutschland in the same year. Perhaps the most memorable one was the German version of “Dark”, “Stranger Things,” which became a global hit on Netflix.
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But Germany isn’t the only place that can control the world’s biggest streamers in a crime thriller. Sweden has had a considerable number of Netflix crime hits with one of the most recent examples of “en helt vanlig famiilj” – “en helt vanlig famiilj” – “en helt vanlig famiilj”. Now, the country is once again challenging its European neighbours with a miniseries of crime thrillers that Netflix viewers are obsessed with.
Glass Dome captured Netflix audience
Netflix has an entire page Nordic Noirand one of its latest additions, “The Glass Dome,” currently has Netflixers around the world. The series focuses on Rezilla (Leonie Vincent), a criminologist who returns to her small Swedish homeland to investigate the loss of a friend’s young daughter’s loss and disappearance. However, this particular case has a creepy parallel to her own traumatic experience of being accused of as a child, forcing Regira to confront her past in order to save the young girl.
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According to FlixpatrolThe Glass Dome, a site that tracks streaming audience data across various platforms, has achieved global success, giving Sweden another notch for the Netflix Crime Striller Hit Belt. The series debuted on April 15th, 2025 and quickly charted in 81 countries the following day. Perhaps surprising, “Glass Dome” is number one in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Native Sweden, but as of April 16, 2025 it also made an impressive debut in the US, which became the third most watched show on streamers.
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“Glass domes” do not necessarily need to hit number one elsewhere. This was already a great debut for the show, and according to Flixpatrol, it reached number three on the world’s most viewed series charts.
Is the glass dome worth seeing?
It’s tiring to try and separate the good from the bad in all the crime thriller series in the vast ocean of streaming “content” especially when the theatrical flops with a terrible rotten tomato score muddy the waters. Shailene Woodley’s crime thriller flop dominated Netflix’s top charts at the top of 2025, but with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 52%, is it really worth it?
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But “Glass Dome” looks like a decent product from Netflix. Not in the series Rotten tomatoes It’s still a score, but all four reviews on the site are positive, and there are a few reviews floating there that also talk about its quality. It is also not a remake or adaptation, but is actually an original story by Swedish screenwriter and author Camila Reckberg, and is known for writing the “fjällbacka” crime novel. So if the series can win number one in the US or perhaps on the global charts, it would be a welcome development.
To do this, “The Glass Dome” will need to abdicate the new season of “Black Mirror.” This is currently No. 1 in the US/Chris Evangelista of the film concluded that the series is clearly running out of ideas in his reviews. On the global charts, the Spanish thriller series The Gardener currently governs, and Black Mirror falls behind in its second position, so we witness a true European showdown. Whether you’re looking at any of them, it will be interesting to see if the “glass dome” will appear on top in this Spain vs. Britain vs. Sweden tribal brawl.
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