Missing You on Netflix is television for the shattered attention span
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The streamer’s latest Harlan Coben adaptation is full of characters who talk like they are encountering human life for the first time. According to legend, Alexander the Great, on his conquest across Asia, encountered an oxcart in the Phrygian city of Gordium. The oxcart was tethered by a knot of such staggering intricacy that the locals had vowed to swear fealty to anyone who could unravel it. Twist after twist had forged the knot, and only the greatest of minds could unpick it. 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.
![[Richard Armitage in ‘Missing You’]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/12/18/12/MY_102_Unit_00744_RT.jpg)
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. Many years ago, her father Clint (Lenny Henry), himself a celebrated copper, was murdered, and Kat has lived in the shadow of that trauma. Then, all at once, things start to happen: she receives word that her father’s convicted killer Monte (Marc Warren) has days to live, while her ex-fiancé Josh (Ashley Walters), who ghosted her a decade ago, shows up on a dating app. Suddenly, Kat finds herself scratching away at the lies she’s been told. “Pushing at this door is not going to bring your father back,” her boss, Sergeant Stagger (Richard Armitage), tells her. But it might bring her a step closer to understanding how he died.
