![]() Coben is the Ryan Murphy of potboilers, and you have to duck every once in a while to avoid being hit by the kitchen sink.įinnegan Oldfield stars as Guillaume Lucchesi, who asks his girlfriend to marry him about ten years after his former girlfriend was murdered in a mystery involving the disappearance and/or murder of his brother, Fred. It is what it is, which is a television version of an overstuffed mystery novel. I don’t want to give the impression, however, that it’s great TV. ![]() It doesn’t wait until the end of each episode, either, to drop the twist - there are three record-scratch, “Oh sh*t!” moments in every ep. ![]() It features murders, missing people, people that are presumed dead, kidnappings, assumed identities, flashbacks, Nazis, and doppelgangers. This one is also shorter (five episodes) and twisty as hell, even for Harlan Coben. ![]() ![]() The only difference between his previous Netflix entries and his latest, Gone for Good, is that the latter is French, and so the subtitles make it more difficult to do other things while watching. They’re not great, but they’re not bad, either. As far as comfort television goes, I have a weakness for Harlan Coben’s mystery-thrillers on Netflix, from The Stranger to The Woods to The Safe (featuring Michael C. ![]()
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