Netflix fans have raved over an ‘unmissable and glamorous’ British thriller as it rockets up the charts eight years on from its TV debut. 

The Irish-British series Riviera, which first aired in 2017, has gained traction on Netflix, currently securing the seventh spot among the streaming platform’s top rated shows.

It was created by The Butcher Boy’s Neil Jordan and stars Julia Stiles as American art curator Georgina Clios.

Set in the French Riviera, Georgina finds herself immersed in a world of ‘lies, double-dealing and crime’. 

And she is on a mission to uncover the truth about her husband Constantine, played by Anthony La Pagila, and his death, which was caused by a yacht accident. 

It’s first release was a huge hit with viewers as the first season secured 2.3million viewers per episode. 

Netflix fans have raved over an ‘unmissable and glamorous’ British thriller as it rocketed up the charts eight years on from its TV debut

The Irish-British series Riviera , which first aired in 2017, has rocket up the charts on Netflix as it has second itself in the seventh spot for the streaming platform’s top rated shows

The show, which also became Sky’s most successful original series, gained so much hype on its release that The Guardian dubbed it ‘unmissable’. 

‘Riviera isn’t high art and doesn’t pretend to be. It’s slick, glamorous, fast-paced, precision-tooled entertainment: brain-candy of the purest grade, and I gobbled it up,’ The Irish Independent’s review read.

Metro’s review of the first episode also penned that it starts as a ‘deceivingly brisk thriller, which certainly holds promise’.

But despite its popularity and rave reviews, some viewers were not as impressed as the show’s first season only score 65 percent on Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer. 

Critiquing the series, one person penned: ‘Riviera so far is a mess of one-dimensional characters and a dialogue that is almost downright cliche at times.’ 

‘Yes, it looks great, but Riviera is overly serious, frequently implausible and not terribly memorable; in art terms, it feels like an expensive frame, plonked on a finger painting.’

‘The writers are Neil Jordan and John Banville, and a mystery greater than the killing is how an Oscar-winner and a Booker prizewinner could come up with something quite so trashy. ‘

‘Certainly there is more money than thought here. It smacks of TV made by too many people and designed to appeal to too many people, and it ends up appealing to no one.’

Set in the French Riviera, Georgina finds herself acing a world of ‘lies, double-dealing and crime’

And she is on a mission to uncover the truth about her husband Constantine, played by Anthony La Pagila, and his death, which was caused by a yacht accident

‘Looking like a bargain-basement Sharon Stone or a Britney (on a good day) lookalike – [Stiles] lacks the presence to make us follow her through nine more episodes as she discovers what a dirty, double-dealing scoundrel she married just one year ago.’

‘Sky drama can do better than this.’

This week all three seasons were added to Netflix, with the series quickly launching into the Top 10 most-viewed shows.

Riviera also stars Poppy Delevingne, Jack Fox, Iwan Rheon, Will Arnett and Rupert Graves.