Untamed

A death in Yosemite brings an investigation into a landscape that can dwarf everyone moving through it. Eric Bana plays the investigator at the centre of Untamed, with the park supplying both the practical difficulties and the strongest attraction.

For me, it was fine rather than exceptional. Yosemite and El Capitan were the main reasons to keep watching. The setting gives searches and journeys a scale that an ordinary urban detective drama cannot easily reproduce, and that difference does a good deal of the work.

The crime story follows more familiar territory, so I would not put it ahead of the strongest shows on the list for its writing alone. If the national-park setting appeals, though, that is a perfectly good reason to try it. Sometimes an interesting place makes a serviceable mystery worth the time.