I Bet You Won’t Be Able to Stop After One Episode of Netflix’s Addictive New Thriller

Netflix, here in the final leg of the year, premiered a new series that immediately restructured my best-of list for 2025. It pretty much kicked all the titles aside, claiming its spot at the proverbial mountaintop. 

I’m talking about The Beast in Me, the taut new psychological thriller that hit Netflix last week. I had seen the title art rolling across my TV screen, but it wasn’t until I heard series star Claire Danes speak about the show on a recent episode of the SmartLess podcast that I decided to…