Suits Star’s 6-Episode Netflix Series With 100% RT Score Mogs Streaming Charts

Patrick J. Adams has traded Pearson Specter Litt’s glass offices for one of modern history’s darkest investigations, and Netflix viewers are turning up in droves. The Suits actor appears in The Bombing of Pan Am 103, a six-episode historical drama that has surged to No. 4 among Netflix TV shows worldwide on August 12, 2026. According to FlixPatrol’s global Netflix chart, the series collected 321 ranking points, placing it behind My Life with the Walter Boys, Our Sticky Love, and MOURINHO, while outranking Raw, Operation Safed Sagar, and I Will Find You.

That is quite a second wind for a British drama that originally premiered on BBC One in May 2025. Its Netflix arrival has introduced the story to a considerably broader audience, and the critical reception has supplied another enticing hook: recent coverage reports a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score for the scripted series.

Patrick J. Adams Leaves Mike Ross Far Behind

Kevin McKidd, Patrick J. Adams, and Connor Swindells in The Bombing of Pan Am 103 (2025) | Credit: Netflix

Anyone arriving solely because Patrick J. Adams spent seven seasons playing Mike Ross on Suits should leave their legal-drama expectations at the door. The subject here carries considerably heavier baggage. Created by Jonathan Lee and developed by Adam Morane-Griffiths, The Bombing of Pan Am 103 dramatizes the investigation following the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988. The bombing killed 270 people, including 259 aboard the aircraft and 11 people on the ground. Netflix describes the resulting inquiry as the largest murder investigation in the history of Scottish policing.

The cast is stacked without turning the tragedy into a star vehicle. Connor Swindells plays Detective Constable Ed McCusker, Merritt Wever portrays FBI agent Kathryn Turman, and Patrick J. Adams plays American intelligence officer Dick Marquise. Eddie Marsan also appears as Tom McCulloch. That ensemble helps explain why Adams’ involvement feels miles away from Mike Ross. Suits often let him win by being the smartest bloke in the room; this drama places its characters inside an enormous investigation where answers arrive painstakingly and human loss cannot be tidied away by a clever speech.

The restraint is arguably its ace in the hole. Instead of treating Lockerbie as fodder for a conventional thriller, the six-part structure gives investigators, victims’ relatives, and the community space within the narrative. Contemporary reviews have particularly praised its patient reconstruction and respectful approach to the victims.

Why The Bombing of Pan Am 103 Has 100% RT Score

Terence Maynard and Patrick J. Adams in The Bombing of Pan Am 103 (2025) | Credit: Netflix

Turning a real tragedy into television means walking a tightrope, and The Bombing of Pan Am 103 earns much of its acclaim by avoiding the trappings of a conventional conspiracy thriller. The six episodes follow Scottish detectives and American investigators piecing together an enormous field of wreckage, allowing forensic discoveries and painstaking police work to drive the tension. Radio Times praised the drama for balancing the scale of the investigation with its human cost.

The cast gives that procedural framework some heft. Connor Swindells leads as Ed McCusker, alongside Patrick J. Adams as Dick Marquise and Merritt Wever as Kathryn Turman. The story also keeps Lockerbie’s residents and victims’ families in focus rather than reducing the disaster to an investigative puzzle. The Arts Desk highlighted its attention to the families and community affected by the bombing.

Its 100% Rotten Tomatoes score does not mean universal praise; reviews outside that Tomatometer pool have raised concerns about pacing and sentimentality. The Guardian was notably less convinced. Still, the series’ restraint may be its ace in the hole. It lets investigation and human consequence carry the weight, a choice that gives this six-part drama more staying power than cheap sensationalism ever could.

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All six episodes of The Bombing of Pan Am 103 are now streaming on Netflix internationally.