I can't even come close to claiming that I can teach Netflix much – all of its driving principles are doubtless determined by people paid a huge amount more than me to steer a streaming titan successfully. Still, it's sometimes implicit that it has at least one central idea for how to make new shows work well, and it's a blindingly obvious one: cast great actors.
While it's perfectly common for its streaming shows to hit it big without necessarily having a big name to anchor things around, there's always going to need to be at least one properly reliable performer if things are going to really go well. In the case of its newest mystery thriller, His & Hers, I'm pretty confident that figure will be Jon Bernthal, one of my favourite actors.
