Missing You on Netflix is television for the shattered attention span

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The Gordian knot, though, was nothing compared to the mass of tangles created some 2,356 years later, by American author Harlan Coben, whose latest messy thriller, Missing You, arrives this week on Netflix. Rosalind Eleazar – a fine supporting actor on shows like Harlots and Slow Horses – is Kat Thompson, a detective inspector somewhere in anonymous, semi-urban Britain. In addition to the leads, there’s the stunt-casting of Busted bassist Matt Willis and TikToker GK Barry, as well as Steve Pemberton, deliciously deployed to chew the scenery as a murderous dog breeder, and James Nesbitt, making a return to the Coben Televisual Universe as grinning mob boss Calligan. The audience response to Netflix’s spate of Coben adaptations – not to mention their modest budgets – means they’ll keep coming, and little effort will be made to add new dimensions to the characters or sense to the proceedings.