Howard Berger, the head of makeup on “American Primeval,” a Netflix limited series, thought he had achieved the optimal level of grime. He prepared a makeup test — muddied necks, blackened fingernails, dirt painted inside an actor’s ears — and showed it to Peter Berg, the series’ director.

While the streamer was on a roll last year with one release eclipsing the popularity of the other, the streaming mogul is far from slowing down on its streak in 2025 with The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live making history with its streaming release on Netflix.