There are a lot of twists, and many of them are far-fetched, but as long as you know to expect that going in, you can at least avoid concussing yourself slapping your palm against your forehead.Īgain, not amazing television, but Coben series are popular for a reason. We find most of that out early on in the series, and then it fans out from there, as flashbacks introduce new characters that surface in the present. Inès (Garance Marillier), the younger sister of his dead girlfriend who looks just like her sister (they are played by the same actress), also gets involved because the disappearance of his fiance eventually links back to the murder of his former girlfriend. The day after he proposes to Judith, however, she also disappears, and so Guillaume joins forces with his best friend and co-worker Da Costa (Guillaume Gouix) - a former white supremacist turned social worker - to track down Judith, only to discover that she is somehow involved in a double murder investigation tied to the mafia. Coben is the Ryan Murphy of potboilers, and you have to duck every once in a while to avoid being hit by the kitchen sink.įinnegan Oldfield stars as Guillaume Lucchesi, who asks his girlfriend to marry him about ten years after his former girlfriend was murdered in a mystery involving the disappearance and/or murder of his brother, Fred.

It is what it is, which is a television version of an overstuffed mystery novel. I don’t want to give the impression, however, that it’s great TV. It doesn’t wait until the end of each episode, either, to drop the twist - there are three record-scratch, “Oh sh*t!” moments in every ep. It features murders, missing people, people that are presumed dead, kidnappings, assumed identities, flashbacks, Nazis, and doppelgangers. This one is also shorter (five episodes) and twisty as hell, even for Harlan Coben.

The only difference between his previous Netflix entries and his latest, Gone for Good, is that the latter is French, and so the subtitles make it more difficult to do other things while watching. They’re not great, but they’re not bad, either. As far as comfort television goes, I have a weakness for Harlan Coben’s mystery-thrillers on Netflix, from The Stranger to The Woods to The Safe (featuring Michael C.

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