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Looking for some intense FBI procedural drama to put your brain to work? Well, drumrolls please! The Hunting Party has gathered on Netflix, and if you skip, it’s your loss.

Co-created by JJ Bailey and Jake Coburn, The Hunting Party is a twisted procedural series that landed on the US library on February 15th.

While not a Netflix original production, the first season of the NBC crime thriller is currently available on the platform. However, for those wondering if they should press the play button, fair warning: once you do, there’s no going back, meaning this could leave you scrambling for the second season.

The Hunting Party stars Melissa Roxburgh, best known for her role in Manifest, as Rebecca “Bex” Henderson, an FBI profiler with an uncanny eye for detail. Although she was always a force to be reckoned with in the FBI, for the past five years, Bex has turned to civilian life, laser-focused on giving her adoptive daughter the childhood she deserves while catching small-time crooks fixing card games at a local casino.

Despite walking away from her life as an FBI profiler, her life of bliss takes a backseat when Bex receives a cryptic message from the attorney general of the United States, seeking urgent help. Soon, Bex finds herself attending a dead serious meeting at a secure military base where CIA agent Jacob Hassani hands over her file of the first serial killer she ever put behind bars, Richard Harris. Confused about why she was being asked to profile a dead man, Box grows inquisitive for answers.

But instead of vanquishing her curiosity, Hassani takes her to a top-secret facility called the Pit. Once the most shielded, secure, and off-the-books prison, the Pit is now a site of disaster after a terrific explosion blew up the central underground structure. Hassani informs Bex that instead of carrying out Harris’s death sentence, the US government chose to send him and others like him to the Pit.

But after the explosion earlier in the morning, Harris and many other notorious inmates escaped the Pit. In order to catch Harris before his trail of crime restarts and contain the information that he’s alive, Bex must swallow her frustration over the delayed justice and create an updated profile.

So, she joins forces with Harris’s prison guard, Shane Florence, to do so. However, acknowledging all that Harris has been hiding from her, including the reason why the government was collecting killers like a hobby, she’s concerned that Harris might just outsmart her once again. Plus, Harris is not the only problem Bex has on her hands.

With several other inmates out on the loose and her contentious history with the Pit’s burden on the edge of resurfacing, The Hunting Party has twists and turns at every curb. So, if you want something pulsating on your watchlist, this is it.