While the British true-crime series Should I Marry a Murderer? exceeded viewership expectations for the third week in a row, the streamer’s latest true-crime movie emerged as a massive hit in its first week of release. Should I Marry a Murderer? follows a Scottish woman whose fiancé confides in her that he once ran over a cyclist and buried the victim’s body in the Highlands. The woman spends weeks in emotional agony, seemingly abandoned by the authorities, as she collects more evidence against him. The three-part series has spent three weeks on Netflix’s English-language series list, accumulating 20 million views during that period. The streamer has followed the show with what’s shaping up to be another blockbuster for true-crime fans.
The new movie debuted at the number three spot on Netflix’s English-language list, behind the animated blockbuster Swapped and the feel-good dramedy Remarkably Bright Creatures. In its first week, the true-crime movie outperformed Netflix’s hit survival thriller Apex, which has accumulated more than 100 million views in four weeks. The new true-crime documentary revisits the infamous case of an Ohio teenager named Mackenzie Shirilla, who crashed her car into the side of a building at nearly 100 mph, killing her boyfriend and his friend instantly. Further investigation reveals that the crash may not have been an accident.
Here’s More Viewership Data for Netflix’s New True-Crime Hit
The movie we’re talking about is titled The Crash. In one week, it posted nearly 12 million views and outpaced Apex, which added 10 million views in its fourth week. The Crash was directed by Gareth Johnson, who previously directed the three-part true-crime documentary The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman for Netflix. Released in 2022, The Puppet Master follows a career criminal who dupes unsuspecting people into believing that he’s a secret agent working for MI5 while robbing them of money. The Crash doesn’t yet have an official Rotten Tomatoes score, although only one of the seven reviews listed so far is negative. Critics have described the movie as a “must-watch for true-crime fans” and “a call to action to look at your own screen and ask yourself: if my life were stripped down to my highlights.”
You can watch The Crash, Should I Marry a Murderer?, and several other gripping true-crime documentaries on Netflix. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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2026 – 2026-00-00
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Netflix
- Directors
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Josh Allott
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Caroline Muirhead
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