Missing You Review
Director: Nimer Rashed and Isher Sahota
Date Created: 2025-01-01 18:26
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Missing You Review: The mystery drama series Missing You is directed by Nimer Rashed and Isher Sahota and produced by Victoria Asare-Archer. The series is based on Harlan Coben’s book and has most of the original characters: Detective Inspector Kat Donovan played by Rosalind Eleazar, Josh Buchanan – Ashley Walters, Clint Donovan – Lenny Henry, Sergeant Ellis Stagger – Richard Armitage, Titus – Steve Pemberton, Monte Leburne – Marc Warren, and numerous others; James Nesbitt, Nia Roberts, and Charlie Hardwick among them. It comprises five episodes in total with each episode being about 45 minutes long; this drama, mystery, and suspense nothing of which seems promising, and none of which are seen in the show.
Missing You Series Plot
Netflix’s Missing You is the newest Harlan Coben novel which brings the reader into the world of Detective Inspector Kat Donovan. She’s a seasoned investigator with a tragic backstory: her father Clint Donovan was killed 11 years ago and till today there are mysteries surrounding his death. Worse still, her long-time boyfriend, Josh, dumped her without any reason to give her the same year.
In case destiny loves to joke, Kat one day finds Josh in a dating app, and, at the same time, she finds out that her father’s convicted killer is about to die. In the middle of all this commotion — or perhaps because it all is out of control — there is the sub-plot of Titus, a dog breeder and kidnapper.
Netflix Missing You Review
If you are a lover of murder mysteries or other crime thriller type of films, then you’ll be drawn to Missing You by its premise. However, at as the episodes unroll the series drags along its elongated web of subplots and thus disappoints the viewers.
The most glaring problem with Missing You is that it cannot differentiate what is important. The main enigmas—by what means and for what reason Clint Donovan was killed and what has occurred to Josh—take a back seat to this strange sidekick where the protagonist is a dog breeder involved in a crime syndicate. This detour uses nearly all the presence time that I wish to see Kat develop, and we are left wondering why the show is called Missing You, not Titus the Kidnapper.
The narration gab is weak, creating an adrenaline rush without much depth: grieving, treachery, and sexual violation get done yet are merely hinted at. The small deep insights into Kat’s problems or her relationships are overshadowed by side or irrelevant information deeming the audience detached from the series.
A potential at noting out an engaging protagonist was further stretched by Rosalind Eleazar’s Kat Donovan. Still, what makes the almost superheroine’s story unconvincing is a severe shortage of such elements in her personality. Oddly enough, the show offers viewers fairly few reasons to want her to succeed or care about her personal development.
A buildup of suspense and hinted romance in Josh’s return is hardly noticed. Again, the only characters that are presented are secondary and minor are the supporting characters such as Nia, Charlie, and Odette. The attempts to make a real villain on the stage of Titus, performed by Steve Pemberton, are quite failed, and he even looks comedic rather than being dangerous.
Missing You is enhanced by the presence of some of the most hardworking actors and incredible beauty of Shanghai, but its weak script. Saoirse Ronan, in her attempts to imbue the screenplay with Kat’s depth, seems to fail at this by staying stuck in mediocre writing. Richard Armitige and Lenny Henry are given too slight a role, for which they are criminal, and Steve Pemberton’s hammy portrayal of Titus provides no threat or menace.
Therefore, cinematography and production design are totally practical, with no substance or originality. There is a complete lack of variety and excitant in the movie that the viewers are left wandering in plains without any feeling of mystery or passion. It is interesting to note that, even an orchestral score composing the drama lacks uniqueness and does not add value to the drama.
Among the striking issues that Missing You cannot let go of are twists. The show has a bad habit amplifying the tension of episodes with shock moments that interrupt a scheduled storyline. As much as this may be true, it is as quickly tiring and monotonous as the well-known strategy suggests. The only problem with the story is that by the time the final twist comes there is no way you can react in shock or horror.
Summing Up
Missing You had all the Dynamics required to make it a good mystery drama; good actors, good story content and good referencing from a best selling author. However, it fails to do so due to poor narrative direction which relies on an absence of direction, underdeveloped characters, and a characteristically poor representation of warmth on the parts.
Viewed solely as another Harlan Coben series, you may get the impression it is yet another Netflix D-grade thriller collection. For everyone else, it’s a routine occurrence that doesn’t seem to make any impression on the community. If you fancy yourself a mystery series that you can polish off in one sitting, there are far superior ones out there. All that aside, Missing You is probably a novel one can do without if they are not a huge follower of Coben’s books.
Missing You 2025 is now streaming on Netflix.
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