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Missing You Series Review

Missing You is a 2025 limited crime thriller series adapted from a novel by Harlan Coben. It premiered on Netflix on 1 January 2025.

The series is centred around Detective Kat Donovan who discovers her “missing” fiancé on a dating app, a decade after his disappearance, unlocking secrets and mysteries in the past.

The Good

It has a compelling premise, a missing fiancé popping up on a dating app 11 years later and a hint at mysteries and secrets that have been buried and forgotten… Almost every character acts like they have something to hide and sifting through the lies, deception and motives leaves an unpredictable plot, which keeps you guessing where it will all lead, as the skeletons come tumbling out of closets.

Rosalind Eleazar as Kat Donovan delivers a strong performance as the lead dealing with professional and personal challenges, navigating through grief, betrayal, and the quest for truth, answers and closure.

The show has 5 episodes with a 40 minute run time, so it’s a fun and easy edge of seat watch, that might tease you to keep watching to the end.

The Bad

Though the series has an interesting premise, it somehow gets bogged down its erratic pacing, sub plots and plots that don’t quite gel leaving jarring plot holes and a lot of disbelief you have to suspend.

For detective Kat, is rather clueless to all the things that happened beneath her nose and her dog with a bone attitude in trying to get to the bottom of things makes her come across as a bungling amateur, with no business holding a badge or gun…

Missing you is packed with so many twists, that it gets repetitive and stops making any sense and so borderline ridiculous that by time you get to the end the conclusion is unsatisfactory with underdeveloped antagonists who have no clear motivations for all their pretence at eccentricity.

The Ugly

The overarching theme in the series seems to be that things left in the past should just stay in the past, and most of the characters definition of protecting someone is by not telling them unpleasant truths… a solution which does nothing but create festering wounds and resentment.

Final Thoughts

If you are not going to be analytical and willing to suspend disbelief and not pay too much attention while you watch, Missing You can be a fun thriller series that will keep you guessing as you unravel the twists, even if its easy to forget. There could be worse ways one could spend that opening year slump before resolutions start kicking in.

Have you watched Missing You is it something you would watch.