A British thriller featuring a legendary soap star has rocketed up the charts despite brutal reviews branding it ‘so bad it’s unbelievable’.

Four-part series Cold Call, which was released five years ago, stars Coronation Street’s Sally Lindsay, who played Shelley Unwin in the ITV show.

However, in Cold Call she plays June Clarke, a carer who is ‘barely getting by’.

After getting fired and finding out her daughter is pregnant, June makes the impulsive decision to sell her house.

To make things worse, she has all of the money stolen from her by fraudulent cold caller.

That was the final straw which saw June take matters into her own hands and attempt to to hunt down those responsible.

Four-part series Cold Call, which was released five years ago, stars Coronation Street ‘s Sally Lindsay who played Shelley Unwin in the ITV show

However, in Cold Call Sally plays carer June Clarke, who is ‘barely getting by’ and has a string of bad luck

Despite the interesting premise, Cold Call received awful reviews at the time of its release.

One Rotten Tomatoes review said: ‘It was so bad, it was almost unbelievable.’

‘The whole plot is just silly. Boring,’ another wrote.

A third review read: ‘Too scripted, and woody in the direction. Interesting story, with some great promise, but any tension and suspense end up being a wet firework…’ 

Astonishingly, the series got the total opposite reaction after it was released on Netflix this week.

It quickly flew up the streaming charts and is currently the second most watched show in the country.

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK winner The Vivienne posted on X: ‘Loving Cold Call on Netflix. Sally Lindsay is great.’

Another social media user said: ‘Probably the best mini series I’ve watched in a while!’

Despite the interesting synopsis, Cold Call received awful reviews at the time of its release

Someone else wrote: ‘If you haven’t seen it yet, I would definitely recommend Cold Call with Sally Linsday.

‘She plays a blinder and it had me gripped from episode one. She deserves so much recognition.’

Speaking at the time of its original release, Lindsay shared how the storyline hit closer to home as she was nearly scammed herself.

She said: ‘I got a call from what I thought was the gas board. This guy was telling me because I hadn’t paid the bill, I was going to be given a county court judgement and be cut off. 

‘Even though I knew it was paid, I was listening and half of me was believing him. 

‘Then the doorbell rang and there was someone at the door so I said, “I’ll ring you back” and the line went ᴅᴇᴀᴅ.’

Cold Call is available to stream on Netflix.