Will this become the new tradition on Netflix? In 2024, the platform unveiled Harlan Coben’s series on January 1 Double trap. A real audience success for fiction, which has become one of Netflix’s most viewed, so much so that the SVOD giant decided to repeat the experience this year. On Wednesday January 1, Netflix subscribers were able to start the year 2025 by watching the five episodes of I miss youa new series adapted from crime fiction master Harlan Coben. This story focuses on Kat Donovan, a police detective still reeling from the murder of her father more than ten years ago and the sudden disappearance of her fiancé, Josh, who left overnight without explanation. While she is leading a brilliant career, a new investigation puts her on the trail of Josh, whose photo she discovers one day on a dating application. The start of a quest for truth for Kat and revelations she never expected.
I miss you : how does the Netflix series adapted from Harlan Coben’s novel end? Kat reunites with Josh and solves the case of Dana Fells’ disappearance
Through her research, Kat ends up finding Josh, who now calls himself Reggie Cross. He is a widower and lives with his daughter Sadie and her grandfather, in an isolated house. Josh knew that Kat’s father, Clint, was corrupt. “The truth would have killed you, you don’t understand”he told him. If he maintains that he has always loved her, Kat leaves before hearing his explanations. Later, Stagger, his boss, admits to having paid Monte LeBurne to confess to Clint’s murder, because he did not want the truth to come out about him. He especially didn’t want Kat to learn who her father really was because he had promised Clint to take care of her if anything happened to her.
As she returns home, Kat discovers Dana’s son Brandon being kidnapped. At the farm, Titus decides to burn everything and get rid of the hostages. Dana manages to free everyone and they attack their jailer. Arriving at the farm with her partner, Kat refuses to wait for reinforcements. While Titus threatens to kill Brandon if Dana doesn’t show up, the latter arrives with her axe. Titus shoots Brandon in the knee. As he prepares to kill Dana, Kat shoots him.
I miss you (Netflix): who is Parker, with whom Clint had an affair?
Calligan tells him that he found Parker. When Kat goes to the address he gave her, it turns out to be a man. He and Clint were lovers for 14 years. Calligan had learned of this and was blackmailing Clint with this information, forcing him to work for him. Clint wanted to stop and break up with Parker, terrified that his wife and Kat would find out. Parker explains the night he died, Clint ran away, he was scared. When Kat returns home, Josh is waiting for her and they end up reconnecting and spending several days (weeks?), happy together.
I miss you (Netflix): why did Josh, Kat’s fiancé, kill her father Clint?
But one morning, a phone call shakes everything up again. Charlie calls Kat to tell her that he finally received the results of the analysis of the fingerprint found on the gun that killed his father, which had never been identified. This imprint was involved in a bar fight in Scotland. Kat then understands that it is Josh’s. In shock, she hears him tell her the events that led him to kill his fiancée’s father. The night he died, Aqua, Kat and Josh’s friend, saw Clint with Parker. Clint saw her and was afraid she would tell Kat everything. So he asked Stagger for Aqua’s address. Aqua wanted to encourage Clint to tell his daughter the truth himself and he was very violent, brutalizing her. Josh arrived and accidentally killed him, while trying to defend Aqua. Stagger showed up and covered up the crime to protect Josh and Aqua, but also in the hope that Kat would never learn the truth about her father.
I miss you (Netflix): what future for Kat and Josh?
Kat is, inevitably, in shock after all these revelations. Can she really accept that her fiancé killed her father? After Josh’s story, the series ends quite quickly and without us really knowing what Kat will decide to do. At the very end of I miss youKat and Josh sit side by side, but apart, on the bed. Then, their fingers end up touching and the series ends with this image, followed by one of their favorite songs from the time, the one they had sung at karaoke and which Kat had sent to Josh on the dating app. This ending is intended to be optimistic for their relationship and suggests that Kat will end up, despite everything, forgiving Josh. After I miss youNetflix has already announced two new series adapted from novels by Harlan Coben. One of them will also mark a great first for the author.
