DOWNTON ABBEY STAR TV THRILLER RACES UP NETFLIX CHART

One of the stars of Downton Abbey has seen their Netflix thriller storm the top 10 charts on the streaming platform.

However, not all viewers are fans of the Channel 5 drama, claiming that it’s duller than dishwater and boring.

Allen Leech might be best known to you as Downton’s Tom Branson, but in Channel 5’s Too Good To Be True, the 44-year-old takes an extremely different turn.

Playing the role of Elliot, his character offers single mother Rachel (EastEnders star Kara Tointon), who is trying to make ends meet as a cleaner, a lucrative cleaning job.

But in this twisty thriller, which originally aired on Channel 5 as Too Good to Be True before being added to Netflix, where it’s available to stream under the title Captivated, not everything is as it seems.

In addition to Tointon and Leech, the cast for the four-part series includes Silent Witness star Sara Powell, Line of Duty’s Taj Atwal and Coronation Street actor John Thomson.

Emily in Paris season five has been labelled ‘garbage’ and ‘terrible’ by critics, but according to FlixPatrol, the show has reached the dizzying heights of the number one spot in the Netflix charts in 75 countries and is still 9th on the Netflix top 10.

Thankfully, the current number one on Netflix, Harlan Coben’s Run Away, has a far healthier 81% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Too Good To Be True is available to stream on Netflix.

This article was originally published on December 24, 2025.

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