My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of MISSING YOU on Netflix!

Missing You makes me wonder if it’s in Richard Armitage‘s contract that he must be in every single one of these Harlan Coben New Year adaptations for Netflix, the last one being Fool Me Once!

Before getting into the plot details, the opening scene shows the row of bars and restaurants down into Stanley Square, Sale, albeit from the view as if you’re leaving the square. There’s quite a few eateries, although one place closed because it didn’t serve alcohol and was just a juice bar. They’d probably do quite well in the Trafford Centre, instead.

Still, as for this place, I have NEVER seen it that busy, and the only music you hear playing doesn’t come from a central speaker for the area as this sounds, but from occasional bars who have the volume too loud.

Then again, while it is set in Manchester, DI Kat Donovan’s (Rosalind Eleazar – Slow Horses) police station has a ton of CGI skyscrapers behind it, while the corner near the old Hacienda building has a huge, fake TV advertising board, and other touch-ups.

Kat’s about to take her newest boyfriend home for the evening, when she hears a fight break out in the restaurant kitchen, and since she’s a cop, she takes it upon herself to stick her oar in and sort things out.

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She works in the most unpolice-y police station, as hardly any desks have an actual computer at them, and their lunch table is in the same room. In fact, it looks like one of my old classrooms at school.

Meanwhile, on a dating app, one of her matches is her ex, Josh Donovan (Ashley Walters – Top Boy), who ran off and ghosted her, but when the app tells her to send a song to start the conversation, so she picks the titular track by John Waite, as that holds special memories for her.

Also thrown into the mix, early on, is killer Monte Leburne (Marc Warren – Van Der Valk), whose cancer is back and is terminal, the kidnapped Rishi Magari (Rudi Dharmalingam – Role Play), while Nurse Sally (Samantha Spiro – One Life) has some very questionable nursing methods!

So far, I’ve seen the first two episodes of five, the latter starting completely differently, making me wonder if I’m watching an entirely different programme, as Steve Pemberton (Better Man) enters the chat, and it feels very ‘Inside No.9‘.

Obviously, no spoilers, but that’s if I even understood what was happening, anyway, and amongst a great plethora of characters that aren’t quite hanging together yet, it’s crazy-twisty-turny and I can’t really say so far that Missing You is one for the ages, but I’ll stick it out and see if it improves.

Thanks to our friends at Netflix for the screener prior to release.

Missing You is not available to pre-order on Blu-ray or DVD, but is on Netflix from today.

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Check out the trailer below:

Missing You – Official Trailer – Netflix

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Detailed specs:

Cert:
Running time: 40-60 minutes per episode (5 episodes)
Release date: January 1st 2025
Studio: Netflix
Format: 2.00:1

Series Directors: Nimer Rashed, Isher Sahota
Producer: Guy Hescott
Novel: Harlan Coben
Screenwriters: Sumerah Srivastav, Victoria Asare-Archer
Music: Ben Onono

Cast:
DI Kat Donovan: Rosalind Eleazar
Ellis Stagger: Richard Armitage
Josh Donovan: Ashley Walters
Rishi Magari: Rudi Dharmalingam
Darryl: Matt Jay-Willis
Aqua Vanech: Mary Malone
Stacey Embalo: Jessica Plummer
Nia Emine: Catherine Ayers
DS Clint Donovan: Lenny Henry
Raya Stagger: Jackie Knowles
Charlie Pitts: Charlie Hamblett
Det. Khol: Simon Kunz
Odette Donovan: Brigid Zengeni
Tessie Sewell: Jo Martin
Flo Kohl: Naomi Wirthner
Reynaldo: Felix Garcia Guyer
Tamsin: Alice Offley
Nurse Sally: Samantha Spiro
Monte Leburne: Marc Warren

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