One of my favorite burgeoning subgenres of recent years is the Netflix Algorithm Show: a series seemingly produced or acquired not so much because it represented a fully baked idea, but because everybody in the room could envision with absolute certainty all the different Netflix categories it could be slotted into.
There are dozens of true crime shows and Black Mirror knockoffs I would put in this genre, but Tom Bidwell's The Irregulars may be the mother of all Netflix Algorithm Shows.
Not only is Bidwell a Netflix favorite after writing the service's adaptation of Watership Down, but The Irregulars practically demands to be pitched as Sherlock Holmes — Netflix has the Benedict Cumberbatch and Robert Downey Jr.
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