Missing you - Netflix

[witchycat2]

The adaptation of Harlan Coben's novel is coming to Netflix on New Year's Day.

I've recently read the book so I'm looking forward to the series.

SPOILERS

I was OK with dog breeder killing, defrauding and incinerating people...

Ending with gay dad accidentally being stabbed by the ex-boyfriend following a scuffle with transgender friend? Nah, too much for me! I normally enjoy the Harlan Coben dramas but this was shit.

I guessed who killed her dad in episode one, just not the circumstances

Rather a silly ending though he just confessed and she goes and does that!! She'd have also been needed at the station to de brief on the case

Overall worth watching but weak ending

We gave up after the first half an hour, shame as we've liked the others.

It felt a bit rushed, knowing HC’s series are always a hit it seemed like it was thrown together. I didn’t find it believable that her dad would kill to keep his secret and there didn’t seem any reason behind the dog breeder killer killing everyone in that way for their money! I was a bit disappointed!

SPOILER

In the book the ending is slightly different - Aqua sees Kat's dad (Clint) with his gay lover in a gay club so Kat's dad goes to Aqua's house to beat Aqua to death (with his cop friend Stagger keeping watch outside while he does so) there is no chat or negotiation beforehand like in the TV series. Josh (named Jeff in the book) is Aqua's roommate: he comes in, sees Clint beating/killing Aqua and shoots Clint with his own police gun. Aqua is in hospital for weeks after and left with severe PTSD. Stagger covers it up as he was also involved in looking out while Clint attacked Aqua.

Reading the novel, the way I took it was Jeff/Josh felt guilt and also felt conflicted as he knew about Kat's father's aim to kill their friend Aqua. He knew Clint wasn't the saint Kat believed him to be. Stagger also got Jeff a new identity to leave so I don't think he had much of a choice but to go.

Yes I agree disappointing too.
It's a really fantastic cast so I think Netflix must pay ££££ to get them to accept such a dire script!

Probably my least favourite of these HC shows

Last years was brilliant

These Harlan coben dramas are always far fetched twaddle but entertaining

I think that's partly because the books are set in America, where houses tend to be bigger than in Britain.

And also because everyone on the telly lives in houses they could no way afford in real life!

Awful- really disappointing. Definitely the weakest of the adaptations.

I thought the acting was poor and most of the characters were poor roles anyway- lacking depth or development.

The 'techie' stuff is just blah! Sick of it. It is just a device to allow access to info quickly and lazily.

James Nesbitt's ability was wasted in a non-role that could have been played by almost any average late-middle-aged actor. Lenny Henry's role was the same.

The gruesome twosome at the puppy farm was like an 'Inside Number 9' episode. When Episode 2 started with that I said to DH 'This is some 'Inside Number 9' thing not 'Missing You' and we actually checked what we were watching.

I didn't care about any of the characters and was sick to the back teeth of her irritating 'PI' friend ringing up/texting saying 'You need to see this- need to meet me NOW.' and then appearing in some ludicrous outfit purportedly as part of her job.

Couldn't see the point at all of the trans role- the bit at the end trying to justify it in the conversation with the Lenny Henry character was pathetic.

The actor who played 'Stagger' was another given a weak role. He's not a bad actor but the role was devoid of depth.

I didn't warm to the ex at all and found the relationship between them unconvincing. He was cold and unconvincing.

The whole pattern of these is pretty much exhausted now and unless they can get a more convincing script and plot I think they're wasting their time with any more. It was dire, not even just entertaining never mind thought-provoking.

The best HC adaptation (although I think it may have been written by him for tv rather than adapted from one of his books?) in my opinion was actually on Sky, before the Netflix ones. It was called The Five and was absolutely brilliant.

Thank you!

Like all of the adaptations it's all totally unbelievable and clean cut but still I enjoyed it as some entertainment.

I've just finished it. It wasn't great. What was the dog breeders motive for kidnap and murder? Was it just for money?

Yes, money. The people they kidnapped were well off

Really disappointing which is such a shame because enjoyed the others.

Lisa Faulkner was so unbelievable to watch that had to fast forward when she was on. Sorry, I do like her but there wasn't enough effort in how she axed.

Josh flashbacks were so overdone it was maddening.

The storyline about the gay Dad was fine but that there wasn't enough effort such a massive cover and somebody died for it, well not sure we can be expected to go along with that.

The people being held captive, surely they'd be more movement / noise and attempts to attack the three or four measly looking baddies? I know they got there in the end but the 'heavies' weren't great in numbers and didn't look particularly psychotic or dangerous.

Just all felt a let down. Ah well- I'll still watch the next one!

I think money and a psychotic person thinking he's teaching them a lesson about not looking for love etc.

bit disappointing tbh i usually love harlan coben but this was really meh and i was bored

I’ve finished it. Enjoyed it but it’s not as good as the previous HC series x

Just started it thanks to this thread - saw Matt (someone) Willis in the opening credits and thought, he must go by that to differentiate from the guy from Busted…. Nope, there he is! Has he acted before? I like him. Always like the Coben adaptations!

I've just finished watching and thought it was awful, disjointed and un believable plot lines. I stuck with it in the background hoping it would get better

I feel sorry for the actors who I feel (from what I've seen so far) are trying their best with an appalling script and direction. The story is silly and obvious, that's just standard HC but it should be entertaining. It's about as entertaining as a dose of the clap- the cliched dialogue, and the spelling out of what's happening is just so banal and tedious. I'm on episode 3 and I've lost enough of my weekend on it- I'm out.

Okay so initially I wanted to say this is the best thing I have seen on Netflix in a while. I love British crime/police dramas. The first 4 episodes were genuinely great.

I didn’t realise the plot was based on a book. I haven’t read the book so went in blind.

I don’t mean to sound overly critical but the final episode ruined it all for me. I just think the show was trying to do a dozen things at once, didn’t do anything particularly well, and the truth fell a bit flat. Felt like the criminal underground plot was made redundant, for the sake of social justice commentary. What was the point of even showing these sketchy characters and hostages etc just to drop that entire plot?

It was genuinely nice for the first episodes, having a trans character just simply exist and their transition not to be the central plot line. But no, they were merely delaying dropping the tokenism in…

Also the more I think about it, the more I feel the show is unrealistic to British culture. Like sorry but there’s no chance some of these characters would have been friends in real life, let alone love each other to the extent of hiding secrets etc.

The weakest of all the Harlan Coben adaptations so far IMO. The lead actress wasn’t bad but most of the rest were poor and my god her PI friend was beyond irritating! None of the characters were particularly likeable so it was hard to really care about them. Also, did we really need so many characters?

The two storylines were just meh and the script was very poor. Thankfully they didn’t drag it out across 6/8/10 episodes as Netflix often do, so at least it wasn’t as big a waste of my time as it could have been.