Netflix today released “I Miss You,” Harlan Coben’s latest series for Netflix. So what is it worth?
What is it about?
Eleven years ago, Detective Kat Donovan’s fiancé Josh – the love of her life – disappeared and she hasn’t heard from him since. Today, while scrolling through profiles on a dating app, Kat’s world comes crashing down again when she sees his face on one of the accounts. Josh’s reappearance leads him to delve back into the mystery surrounding his father’s murder and uncover secrets long buried in his past.
Who is it with?
Netflix relied on a little-known face to carry its series: Rosalind Eleazar slips into the shoes of Inspector Kat Donovan, a self-confident woman who doesn’t give up, especially when it comes to discovering the truth on the death of his father.
Regulars of Harlan Coben’s series will, however, be delighted to find – for the fourth time – Richard Armitage in the casting, where this time he plays a police chief. As for Ashley Walters, seen in the excellent Top Boy, he plays Kat’s missing former fiancé.
A formula that has already borne fruit
Harlan Coben and Netflix, it’s a great love story. For his eighth collaboration with the streaming platform, the writer has chosen to bring to the screen one of his latest novels, released in 2023. I miss you (Missing You in VO) is a gripping thriller of which he alone has the secret. On the program: a heroine who investigates several disappearances and the death of her father a few years earlier. She will make astonishing revelations and discover the true face of the people around her.
After having a hit last year with Double Trap – which is one of the 10 most viewed series of all time on Netflix – the American giant hopes to achieve the same feat by putting You Missing online on the same date. With 5 short episodes of only 45 minutes, it’s frenzy at crazy speed. And the twists and turns will make you want to go to the end…
The strong point of Harlan Coben’s novels has always been to take the reader in an unexpected direction. And it’s the same for her series: she talks about identity theft, online scams and double lives.
Even if qualitatively speaking, this new production is not part of the top of the basket (the first minutes are very poor quality TV films), it can rely on a compact and effective plot. There are revelations in each episode and especially in the last minutes, which call everything into question.
The advantage of I miss you is that it is a mini-series and that the viewer gets what he pays for: there is a closed ending and the writers answer all our questions. Isn’t that ultimately what we’re asking for with this kind of production?
Watch now on Netflix.
