Critics have awarded perfect scores on Rotten Tomatoes to newly released seasons of two high-profile Netflix series.
Within the past week or so, Netflix has achieved an unusual feat — unusual, at least, to those of us who track the performance of the streamer’s neverending firehose of new shows and movies constantly debuting on the service. Two Netflix series, one completely new and the other a fan-favorite mainstay, have both released new episodes to such near-universal acclaim that they’ve each managed to achieve the following distinction:
Perfect 100% scores, at least as of the time of this writing, on Rotten Tomatoes.
One of the two is the video game anime adaptation Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, which debuted on Netflix on September 13. According to Netflix’s logline, this series tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in Night City.
That’s the name of a futuristic metropolis where everyone is obsessed with technology and body modifications. The kid, meanwhile, stays alive by becoming a mercenary outlaw known as an “edgerunner.”
“We are so excited to finally reveal that we are working on an anime in the Cyberpunk world,” Adam Badowski, Cyberpunk 2077 Game Director and CD PROJEKT RED Head of Studio, said when this series was first announced back in 2020.
