The Recruit is not Netflix’s attempt at a CW show, it is their attempt at an ABC show. It is why they got Alexi Hawley (Castle and The Rookie) to make it. Same as The Lincoln Lawyer was their attempt at an NBC or CBS show.

The go prestige cable with stuff like The Crown, 1899, Dahmer, The Watcher, Midnight Mass, Vikings Valhalla, The Sandman, etc.

They definitely go for the younger demo as well and do it pretty successfully with shows like Wednesday, Stranger Things, Outer Banks, Shadow & Bone, Ginny & Georgia, and Never Have I Ever.

If they have a recent flaw it is a lack of new ongoing non genre prestige dramas to replace The Crown and Ozark.