Netflix "Seeing is Believing" Peak Middle class tv

[Indiependant]

10 mins in & every middle.class tv cliche in the book. The rambunctious breakfast scene. The student age child who "spends most.of their time at bars". A husband with a Northern Irish accent to give him an edge. Female doctor mother. Father in finance. Daughter at private school. May as well be sponsored by Gail's Bakery

Did someone grab a slice of toast from someone else’s plate as they shrugged their jacket on and headed out the door?

Is it Run Away series?

To be 100% middle class we'll need to see: (i) a working class cleaner, (ii) a gay/minority best mate of the wife, (iii) a friend who lives/works in the EU and is have residency problems due to Brexit, and (iv) elderly parents with health issues and massive amount of cash to pay for care.

Is this the new Harlan Coben? Has it got a different name now?

If it is all the previous ones have very stereotyped imo

Someone has to go missing for a Harlan Coben.

Ok but is it any good ?

My first thought was is it Harlan Coben,

I’m just on my way out to buy a cheese platter and crackers at Waitrose so I can binge watch this! Right up my (middle class) street. 😂

🤣🤣🤣

If it’s a Harlan Coben they’re always quite predictable and cheesy. Paint by numbers tv.

But I bloody love them 🤣

Yep all rhe above boxes ticked. Its a Harlan Coben indeed. The nice middle class couple being caught up in nefariousness trope clearly has deep seams.
The sexually attractive BAME DS in the police, the anxiety/dramatic energy soundtrack, the middle class young woman with predilection for criminal or criminal adjacent boyfriends. It just needs an art teacher at the private school to have an affair with a sexy Dad to get a full house

Thanks for the recommendation, I shall add it to my watchlist.

Is there property porn in it too?

Well there's another middle class Dad in a study with greenery behind. Large kitchen island with glasses of red wine, miniature trees in planters, so yes guess so

I can’t find it on Netflix! Seeing is Believing?

If it's the Harlen Coben one I think the OP might not be in England, it's called Run Away here at least the description is exactly the same as what I've been watching.

Ah. Fantastic. Run Away is on Netflix. Thanks xx

Yes, there has to be wine in a tall-stemmed wine glass on a marble island in massive kitchen with bifold doors. People need to break open such wine the second they walk through the door, and drink the first sip like it instantly soothes the pain of work stress. Ideally there will be a laptop open on such marble island.

Sofa in the kitchen?

Cute, rough-coated dog of medium size?

Lots of family photos on the walls?

Otherwise I'm not watching.

Not really the point, but why is Gail’s always held up as the ne plus ultra of middle-classness? There are other chain bakery/cafés that seem pretty similar to me (Pain Quotidien, Paul, Ole & Steen) but which don’t seem to have this label attached.

Is the red wine in goldfish bowl glasses and is it supped at dinner parties after which the hosts have a marriage-ending row?

Is there a colour saturated drone shot of suburban landscapes - lawns, pools, shiny cars etc?

Absolutely! Brilliant observations.
Multiple references to picking the kids up. Teenage daughters as word weary and wise as the average 45 year old. Central European helpers/carers usually called Olga. Everyone knows and is friends with their next door neighbour. The Dad will have a close friend who is either black or has a strong but comprehensible northern accent whom they will have safe but laddish banter with about squash. PAs at work invariably tell their workaholic female bosses to go home, in a maternal/patronising manner.

Dark woodwork?

Is Richard Armitage in it?
Is there a house with a big white porch and a large bush, probably a rhododendron, that someone can hide behind whilst either being up to no good or whilst looking for someone who is probably already dead?

Seeing is believing is the title of the first episode of Run Away, watching it now, it doesn't disappoint