There are two sides to the writer-director Kevin Williamson, according to your tastes. If you are passionate about horror, you will certainly know him to Co-creation of the “Scream” franchise and writing several of his filmsIn addition to Penning 1997 “I know what you did last summer” and 2022 Fluck Slasher underestimated COVVI-19 “SICK”. If the slashers are a little too frightening for you, however, you may recognize Williamson as the creator of the television programs “Dawson’s Creek” and “The Vampire Diaries”, which were both medomes defining the era which captured the Zeitgeist.

These two halves may seem diametrically opposed to each other, but both genres are classified by their brazage -style ingredients. The crucial difference is whether you hope to see the characters fall in love or kill yourself. Now, with Williamson’s latest show “The Waterfront”, you get both, which can be the reason why the series has exploded on Netflix since its first on Thursday, June 19.

“The Waterfront” follows the Buckley family, as led by Patriarch Harlan Buckley (played by a Holt McCallany, who wicks landscapes, who previously tore “Mindhunter” by David Fincher). Harlan prefers to drink only to face the myriad of problems weighing down fishing and the longtime restaurant for his family. Picking up the relay is his beautiful wife (Maria Bello), who is not afraid to get your hands dirty to clean the mess of her husband, and her son cane (Jake Weary) who decides to take matters into hand by her own hands by a moonlight as a drug runner for a founder of socio -poopathic drug startup played by a deliciously twisted topher grain.

As if that was not enough for you, Cane’s sister, Bree (Melissa Benoist), hates her guts and uses her relationship powered by drugs with a DEA agent to drop him. Meanwhile, Shawn West (Rafael L. Silva) joins the restaurant as a bartender, surrounding the family’s drama as an illegitimate son of Harlan.

If all this seems ridiculously on top and absurd, you should know that the series is Based on a true story It was near his home for Williamson: his father was a fisherman who used his fishing boat to get drugs, although in a much smaller operation than we see at the “seafront”. The use of these real events as a jump point for a demonstration of twists and turns of head of head, “The Waterfront” makes waves on Netflix (firmly planned word game). In fact, on June 25, 2025, Flixpatrol reports that the series is comfortably in the top 10 of Netflix in most of the world and has even reached first place in several markets, the United States among them.

You can see what everything is the noise for yourself by making a trip to “The Waterfront”, which is now streaming on Netflix.