A new Harlan Coben mystery thriller has landed on Netflix today, continuing the tradition from Fool Me Once of New Year’s Day releases.
Fool Me Once was a massive surprise hit for Netflix, becoming the platform's eighth most-viewed English-speaking show of all time.
The streamer has decided to follow this up with yet another Harlan Coben adaption, which was released this morning (1 January).
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Check out the trailer here:
The show is called Missing You and follows a missing persons detective who comes across her former fiancé on a dating app.
The twist is that he went missing without a trace years ago.
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The cast is absolutely stacked, including Rosalind Eleazar, Ashley Walters, Richard Armitage (of course), Sir Lenny Henry, and Jessica Plummer.
Author and creator Coben told Tudum: “Suppose the love of your life vanished, then one day you’re scrolling through one of those apps.
“And all of a sudden he’s back, and it leads to death and destruction and family secrets and all sorts of buried reasons for why he left the first time.”
And the reviews have already been flooding in.
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Collider has given the thriller an 8/10, saying ‘the show never loses momentum with a steady rhythm of episodes’.
It added: “Missing You is an extremely bingeable series that offers good answers to its mysteries if you stick with it.
“Before that happens, however, you'll be on a rollercoaster of twists and seemingly random events that pay off sooner rather than later.
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“It boasts excellent performances - especially from Eleazar - and, in general, is exactly what you expect from an investigative series. It doesn't reinvent the wheel, but it sure knows how to spin it.”
Fandom Wire gave the show 7/10, saying: “The new British Netflix adaptation of another Harlan Coben novel, Missing You, is elevated by a strong, layered backstory and excellent performance from Slow Horses’ Rosalind Eleazar.
“That’s not to say the series is a hard-hitting drama, but the series version of a beach read that is meant to be a crime mystery that is light and entertaining rather than something gritty.”
Missing You has also been praised for its diversity.
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Sir Lenny Henry spoke in an exclusive interview with LADbible about this, in which he said: “I read the book first, when I was asked to check it out to see if I wanted to be in it.
“I just thought, 'This is going to be awesome'.
“Then when I showed up on the set, it was very diverse. So there were black people and brown people and lots of women, and it was just a very diverse set.
“It's something you don't… having been in the business a long time when I did Three Little Birds, we did that because I was a producer, but generally, Quay Street Productions [co-producers of the show] have done a thing here.
“To put marginalised people at the centre of a story, to bring them into the centre space and go take the pointy end and to have it be like this, and to have it succeed it's just a wonderful thing to be part of.”
Missing You is available to stream on Netflix from 8am on 1 January.
Topics: Diversity, Netflix, TV, TV and Film
Michael Slavin