There are two sides to the writer-director Kevin Williamson, according to your tastes. If you are a horror enthusiast, you will certainly know for having co-created the franchise “Scream” and write several of his films, in addition to the making of “I Know you you do you do What Last” and Slasher Flick “underestimated”. 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 seafront asks how far you would go to keep your family business afloat
“The Waterfront” follows the Buckley family, led by Patriarch Harlan Buckley (played by a Holt McCallany with the wick of landscapes, which previously torn “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 above and absurd, you should know that the series is based on a true story which was close to you for Williamson: his father was a fisherman who used his fishing boat to pass drugs, although in a much smaller operation than what we see in “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, as of June 25, 2025, FlixPatrol reports that the series is comfortably in the Netflix top 10 in most of the world and 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.
