Following the success ofFool Me Onceearlier this year, theHarlan CobenadaptationMissing Younow has a Netflix release date. The upcoming drama is based on a novel released a decade ago, focusing on a detective who loses the love of her life, and featuresSlow Horsesstar Rosalind Elezar in the lead role. The project was announced not long afterFool Me Oncetook over streaming in January, becoming one of the year’s biggest series.
What The Release Date Means For Missing You
An Interesting Placement For An Intriguing Story
The latest Coben series tells the story of Detective Kat Donovan (Eleazar). Eleven years ago, her fiancé, Josh (Top Boystar Ashley Walters) disappeared. Kate hasn’t heard from him since. As she swipes on a dating app, she’s shocked to see his face. Josh’s reappearance, ultimately, forces the detective to look intothe mystery of her father’s murder and discover secrets from her past.
Along with Walters and Eleazar, whoplays Louisa Guy on the Apple TV+ spy dramedySlow Horses, the cast ofMissing Youalso includes Jessica Plummer and Richard Armitage, among others. The latestcollaboration between Coben and Netflixcomes afterStay Close,The Stranger, in addition to the breakoutFool Me Once. It features several executive producers from the latter series, including Nicola Shindler, Danny Brocklehurst, and Cobin himself.
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It’s that last one that Netflix may be hoping to replicate.Fool Me Once, a thriller, had one of the biggest debuts on the servicewith more than 20 million views at the outset and continued to grow from there. Sharing the same release date one year apart, a nearly identical poster, and similar themes, the strategy of bringing in viewers from the previous show is clear.
The Verdict On Missing You
The Casting Makes It Intriguing
Whether or notMissing Yougets to the success of its Coben predecessor, having Eleazar in the lead role does promise that the disappearance and murder drama will have a compelling lead at its center. She’s one of the highlights in a uniformly strongSlow Horsescastand this latest role, should it take off, will introduce her to a potentially even bigger global audience.
Missing You
Cast
Missing You is a crime-drama television series based on the novel written by Harlan Coben. Detective Kat Donovan’s life is thrown into chaos when her fiance, who disappeared eleven years ago, suddenly appears on a dating app. With his reappearance, old wounds are reopened, including the mystery of her father, who was murdered.
