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Critically-acclaimed US drama Manhunt: Unabomber has a 93% Rotten Tomatoes rating and is now available to stream for free in the UK. The series was originally broadcast on Netflix but is now

streaming on STV Player, a UK-wide streaming service. Manhunt: Unabomber depicts a fictionalised account of the FBI’s hunt for the ‘Unabomber’ – one of the world’s most infamous criminal

masterminds, who stumped experts with a decades-long domestic terrorism campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others. The eight-part series features Hollywood star Sam Worthington

as Jim “Fitz” Fitzgerald, a fresh-faced FBI criminal profiler tasked with tracking down the elusive terrorist. But the Unabomber’s chilling dexterity isn’t the only challenge Fitz is up

against, as he also has to fight the bureaucracy of the UNABOM Task Force – a joint law enforcement effort formed to investigate the Unabomber. Fitz pioneers the use of forensic linguistics,

but colleagues in the task force dismiss his maverick ideas and new approaches. Can he cut through the red tape and finally catch the person responsible for wreaking havoc on the US for 20

years? Manhunt: Unabomber also stars BAFTA-nominated British actor, Paul Bettany, who plays Ted Kaczynski – the mathematician and former Berkeley professor who was ultimately unveiled as the

Unabomber in 1996. The series has received praise from critics with The Hollywood Reporter describing it as “interesting in its depiction of how years of using traditional methods and

failing to catch America’s most notorious serial bomber gave way to something experimental and new”. The Los Angeles Times hailed the “equal parts true-crime drama, psychological thriller”

as a “win on all fronts”. The second series in the Manhunt anthology series, Manhunt: Deadly Games – which follows the FBI’s hunt for the 1996 Olympic Games bomber – is also available on STV

Player. But, if Manhunt doesn't sound like your cup of tea, there's plenty of other options to choose from on STV Player. Canadian legal drama Burden of Truth, Irish police

procedural Red Rock and New Zealand’s longest-running continuing drama, Shortland Street are also available to watch.