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TikTok Hype Elevates Netflix’s The Monster of Florence as Viewers Binge

A viral review is steering audiences to the four-episode true-crime drama that reexamines an unresolved serial case.

Overview

  • TikTok reviewer Luke Eccleston (@EccyReviews, 352.8k followers) urged viewers to “stop whatever you're doing,” calling the show “one of the best” of the year and saying he was hooked from episode one.
  • The series is a four-episode limited drama developed by Leonardo Fasoli and Stefano Sollima based on real killings of couples near Florence between 1968 and 1985.
  • Director Stefano Sollima said no single perpetrator has been sentenced for all 16 murders, guiding the choice to narrate the investigation from its early stages.
  • The Monster of Florence holds a 62% Rotten Tomatoes score as social media reactions describe it as gripping and disturbing.
  • The opening episode portrays a 1982 double murder that prompts a look back at a 1968 case with similar details, presented without revealing conclusions.