Latest Harlan Coben series…..

The trouble with Harlan Coben's shows is that all of them follow the same pattern - namely that something introduced in the last or penultimate episode, not even tangentially-related to anything that's happened in all of the episodes up to that point, turns out to be the "big twist". Thus rendering as meaningless every minute that you spent watching up to then.

This is not how twists are supposed to work. He needs to go back to writing school, preferably by way of The Usual Suspects.

I’ve just started watching The Five to see what that one is like. I think this one is pretty good so far. I’m on episode 4

I watched half of episode 1 and binned in. Load of rubbish.

I binged watched run away in one day as it was an easy watch & quite enjoyed it I've just started episode one of Stay Close which also stars James Nesbitt.

Tbh anything that includes James Nesbitt these days is an instant no from me

I think they’re doing it on purpose - high camp, so bad it’s good type of thing.

A word of caution if anyone is thinking of watching His & Hers instead, the plot holes have plot holes. There are tons of Reddit threads about the inconsistencies.

The police being satisfied it was the two assassins who killed Aaron also made no sense. The explanation they were “returning to the scene of the crime” barely stacks up - what kind of gun for hire goes back to reminisce?

They are always totally shite 😆

I quite like them. They’re total trash but there is something about them I find watchable.

I haven't watched the latest one but I did enjoy the other ones. I find their weirdness entertaining.
The one with Eddie Izzard in where the two weird assassins kept dancing on the way to the murders was so random and funny 😆

I've had the Michelle Keegan one on my watch list forever and not got round to watching it. I won't need to bother now.

I'd forgotten she knew!
Why did she go down there???

If I was a character in a HC series, I'd be just like "well', I'll leave this to the police" and it would all be over in one episode.

OMG thank you!! I don't understand why James Nesbitt gets to appear in every single English version of Harlan Coben's series. I think he's dreadful and getting worse. Myself and my husband only managed to get through episode 2 and gave up so I think you've done amazing getting to episode 4. Other series I've been able to get through because the stories were so good but I didn't even enjoy the story this time. A real pity because I love Harlan Coben normally

The rich white middle aged parents chatting with the big black drug dealer leader in the basement was laughable.

It was, but surely it became much more laughable when it turned into a big shootout there! Twice!
Then more ridiculous yet when it turned out mum knew where the DD was the whole time, but still went down there!

I like watching them but they are ridiculous. I see them as very easy watching and would never re-watch them.

Runaway was absolute dog shit. YANBU, op.

The ‘twist’ at the end was ridiculous.

I quite enjoy his books, but when you're reading it's a lot easier to suspend your disbelief, and you're not fighting a lazy translation of american novel to british location. Then they chop out bits that made more sense of things in the book to get it to a sensible length for a tv series... and whoever is making them is just doing a rubbish job.

A lot of Run Away would have made way way more sense set in America, with an american college rather than british university, american PI vs british, American religious cult etc etc.

I find they Start off well and I'm hooked. But they get worse and worse until the last episode where they put too many ridiculous twists that I end up annoyed and wish I hadn't wasted my time. They all feel the same too. In Run away: The rich white middle aged parents chatting with the big black drug dealer leader in the basement was laughable.

I don’t have any high expectations of them, they’re just easy watching and I have mostly enjoyed them all. It’s not that deep 🤪

I thought His & Hers was terrible too, how had that guy got to be a police detective, he couldn't find his own arse with both hands!

They’re probably the worst thing on tv imho. So bad. I tried to watch the last one and it was cringeworthy. I couldn’t get through one episode. Yet they keep coming back.

His & Hers is infinitely better if you want a crime thriller to watch. It’s American but based on a British book. It just has way more class.

Absolutely awful I persevered in case it got better but sadly not and it has made me decide to never watch another one of his series

If you've read the books the dramatisation doesn't do them justice. It's the same with the Peter James Grace series rubbish compared to the books.

I thought this was brilliant. Really good watch right to the end 😵‍💫😮