You know the drill by know; Netflix will add a serial killer thriller to the content library, and subscribers will flock to it in their droves to continue feeding our unsettling collective obsession with mass murder and mayhem. Even the bad ones can draw in big numbers on the platform, which is just as well when Operation Mayfair has been taking a pounding.
Currently bearing a worrying IMDb score of jut 2.7/10 and a 1.1/5 median on Google Play, it doesn’t sound outwith the realms of possibility to put director Sudipto Sarkar’s London-set crime story forth as the subgenre’s worst effort of 2023 so far. That’s a dismal response to what tends to be a fairly bulletproof form of storytelling, but once again, Netflix users have opted to take the plunge without a care in the world for what either critics or the general public think.
Per FlixPatrol, Operation Mayfair has debuted as the 12th most-watched feature on the global charts, and knowing how these sort of things tend to work, there’s an eminently high possibility it’ll be a proud member of the worldwide Top 10 before the end of the day, because viewers just can’t help themselves from finding out what happens when the bodies begin to drop.
In this instance, Jimmy Shergill’s retired detective Amar is brought back into the fold following his resignation when the serial killer he’d been hunting all across the city returns after a three-year absence to pick up right where they left off. Naturally, it’s destined to be “one last job,” and he won’t rest until the culprit is apprehended once and for all.