• by Adam Buckman , Featured Columnist, Yesterday

For those who have a high tolerance for keeping company with the moody, then do I have a show for you.

It is called “Untamed” -- a six-part drama about an investigator for the National Park Service who picks up the case of a possible murder of a young woman in Yosemite National Park.

She met her demise from a combination of three impacts -- an attack by a wild animal, a bullet in her thigh and finally, a fall from the summit of El Capitan.

Arriving to take up the mystery of the woman’s grisly death (no pun intended since there are no grizzly bears in Yosemite) is Kyle Turner (Eric Bana, pictured above).

He is a man of few words who goes about his business mainly in silence. But that’s OK because he is the best in the business. 

He follows no rulebook except his own. When others zig, he zags. Instead of a police car, he rides a horse to better penetrate the interior of this untamed wilderness.

In private, he broods and drinks too much in silence in a cabin in the woods. He is in mourning for the breakup of his marriage, although he maintains a very friendly relationship with his wife (Rosemarie DeWitt), who has remarried.

We have seen the laconic loner detective character many times before -- so often that I wouldn’t be surprised to find some of the above sentences written practically word-for-word in past TV Blogs (except maybe the horse sentence).

The failure of special agent Turner’s marriage is just one of two tragedies from his recent past. While it is not surprising that he is gloomy and moody in the aftermath of these sad events, his brooding is not much to look at. Here’s an adage I just coined: Glum is no fun.

The fact is, the investigative and procedural scenes in the first episode of “Untamed” that I previewed on Wednesday were the best parts of the show. 

Turner is indeed a gifted investigator of wilderness crime. Among other skills, he has an uncanny knack for tracking animals and humans from horseback.

But in the annals of rural or western detective series, “Untamed” cannot hold a candle to at least two from the last decade or so -- AMC’s “Dark Winds” and A&E’s “Longmire.”

As far as I can recall, the lead characters in these great shows -- Navajo Nation Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) and Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire (Robert Taylor), respectively -- did not brood.

And if they were mourning anything, they kept it to themselves.

Untamed” starts streaming on Thursday, July 17, on Netflix.