Netflix's 'Missing You' Trailer Promises a Thrilling New Year
Jessica Plummer as Stacey Embalo and Rosalind Eleazar as Det Kat Donovan in 'Missing You'
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Netflix initially stumbled into success with U.K. audiences on New Year's Day in 2022, when the streaming service released its miniseries adaptation of Harlan Coben's Stay Close on New Year's Eve 2021 and discovered half of the U.K. had tuned in to watch the next day. Stay Close may have been an accident, but the streaming service's follow-up, Fool Me Once, which arrived on New Year's Day 2024, was a deliberate move. The limited series wound up not just the most-watched title on streaming in the U.K. that weekend but one of the most-watched Netflix originals, period, in the first half of the year; now Netflix hopes to repeat that success in 2025 with Missing You.
Like Netflix's previous adaptations of the American author's works, Stay Close and Fool Me Once reset Coben's novels from the New Jersey/New York area to the U.K. and starred Richard Armitage, whose streak of starring in Coben titles, playing a lead role in every English-language adaptation produced by Netflix, will reach five with Missing You's debut. Missing You will also be reset to the U.K., filmed in Manchester and the North West of England. Whether or not the new story will hit as hard as its predecessors remains to be seen, but the formula seems solid.
Netflix is already betting on more Coben for New Year's Day 2026, with the author's next novel to be adapted, Run Away, greenlit, and ready to film. Meanwhile, the first trailer for Missing You has arrived, building excitement for fans of Coben's mysteries.
Here is the synopsis for the newest Harlan Coben debut:
Eleven years ago, Detective Kat Donovan's fiancé Josh - the love of her life - disappeared, and she's never heard from him since. Now, swiping profiles on a dating app, she suddenly sees his face, and her world explodes all over again. Josh's reappearance will force her to dive back into the mystery surrounding her father’s murder and uncover long-buried secrets from her past.
Rosalind Eleazar (Slow Horses) co-stars alongside Jessica Plummer (The Decameron), Lenny Henry (Three Little Birds), Jo Martin (The Marlow Murder Club), James Nesbitt (Bloodlands), Paul Kaye (Game of Thrones), Samantha Spiro (Sex Education), and Coben cast stalwart Armitage. Supporting cast includes Lisa Faulkner (The Girl Before), Steve Pemberton (Good Omens), Ashley Walters (Top Boy), Matt Willis (Agatha Christie's Marple), Mary Malone (Doctor Who), Felix Garcia Guyer (D.I. Ray), Charlie Hamblett (Killing Eve), Oscar Kennedy (The White Queen), Brigid Zengeni (Totally Completely Fine), and Catherine Ayers (Who Is Erin Carter).
Victoria Asare-Archer penned all episodes with directors Sean Spencer and Isher Sahota splitting helming duties on the five-episode series and Guy Hescott producing. Coben, Shindler, Asare-Archer, Richard Fee, and Danny Brocklehurst executive produce.
Missing You will debut on Netflix on Wednesday, January 1, 2025, New Year's Day.
