While it’s entirely true to say that Happy Madison can definitely be counted among the biggest and most reliable draws on Netflix – as The Out-Laws is proving as we speak in spite of a critical lambasting – Fatal Seduction combines another two of the streamer’s most proven genres and combines them into a worldwide smash hit.

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The data is right there to make it undeniably clear that murder mysteries are guaranteed to whip up a storm among audiences, and the exact same sentiment applies to the humble erotic thriller, too. Naturally, then, the series that combines the two has wasted no time at all in making its way right to the upper reaches of the viewership charts.

Per FlixPatrol, Fatal Seduction has debuted as a Top 10 hit in 80 countries around the world to rank as Netflix’s third most-watched episodic original around the world, with only season 3 of The Witcher and the sophomore run of The Lincoln Lawyer out in front.

The relatively straightforward story sees a married woman indulge in a steamy extramarital night of passion, but there’s tragedy lurking just around the corner. When somebody close to her suffers a horrendous fate, the signs begin pointing in the one direction she absolutely doesn’t want them to under any circumstances.

It isn’t a mold-breaker or a game-changer by any stretch, but based entirely on its title alone, there was never going to be anything else on the cards for Fatal Seduction other than a huge wave of momentum on a platform populated by subscribers who love few things more than murder, mayhem, and titillation.