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Turn of the Tide(2023)

Archived · Netflix

7.4166 eps
S03
DramaActionThriller
ON AIR: APR 10Season 3Archived listing

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

Turn of the Tide is a slow-burn crime drama that earns its tension through accumulation rather than incident. A ton of cocaine arrives into the lives of four ordinary friends, and the series takes its time watching that windfall corrode everything around it: trust, routine, the small certainties that hold a life together.

The island setting is not incidental. Isolation means nowhere to run, no outside world to dilute the pressure, and the series uses that geography to keep its characters pressed against each other as greed and desperation pull them apart. Loyalty fractures gradually, and the drama lives in those incremental betrayals rather than in any single dramatic break.

Best for

slow-burn crime drama, tight-knit friend fallout and Drama

Story lane

Drama and Action

Commitment

Season 3 · 6 episodes

Where

Netflix

Official Premise

Four friends whose lives changed forever with the arrival of a ton of cocaine.

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