I Will Find You

I Will Find You ends, in the best traditions of the throwaway thriller, with a last twist that doesn’t make sense when you stop and think about it - if you want to stop and think, Harlan Coben is not your guy. On home turf, however, he knows what he’s doing.

Even when the new Harlan Coben suspense series goes off rails, the thrills keep coming and this time with a better cast, especially Britt Lower, and twists that won’t quit.

When you sign up to watch a Coben adaptation, you know you're going to be sucked into a fast-moving story that grabs you with tentacles of twists and turns until you finish all the episodes as fast as you can (eight compelling installments in this case). "Find You" meets all those expectations and adds a little extra something with such a stellar cast.

The eight-episode equivalent of a popcorn movie—think “The Fugitive”—where the less time you spend pondering the nefarious plot behind it all, the better.

I Will Find You is a Harlan Coben thriller through and through, replete with all the usual nonsense and plot holes big enough to fall through, but the typical binge-ready formula remains inescapably watchable.

There are a few moments where the show doesn't always feel like its grounded. Despite the pitfalls, which are minor at the absolute most, I Will Find You makes a concerted effort to ensure that its mystery makes sense and comes to a satisfying conclusion.

Mostly, with its steel-grey palette, and without any quotable "I have a special set of skills"-style nonsense despite the prevailing absurdity of the plot, I Will Find You feels clinically efficient.

The central mystery is solved in the series finale and I doubt that you’ll guess it, partly because the writers have successfully strewn so many red herrings about the place, and partly because it’s the most stupid plot reveal in living memory.

The result is a show that’s not particularly revolutionary but still a solid way to pass the time that will satisfy those who love to binge Coben’s shows the day they premiere.

I Will Find You is classic small-screen Coben, which is to say: maddeningly watchable crap with bells on.

Overflowing with the sort of junk-food melodrama that’ll make viewers crave additional servings (no matter how bad they feel afterward).

As an eight-and-done go-go-go thriller, “I Will Find You” certainly passes the time; it’ll be a decent-enough weekend binge for plenty of Netflix subscribers. As the seemingly intended meditation on what parents will do for their children, it’s too slickly, generically amped up to have much real-world resonance.

I Will Find You is a disposable mixture of repetition, red herrings, narrative dead-ends and illogical resolutions, but in part thanks to a top-notch cast led by Sam Worthington, Britt Lower, Chi McBride and Logan Browning, even the rampant wheel-spinning remains generally watchable, amid the irritation.

The latest edition may be glossed up with star power, but there’s no resonance. Sometimes that’s OK, so long as you don’t hope to find anything more.

Somehow, the show takes itself too seriously and not seriously enough, leaving it an inorganic mess that not even its cast can elevate.

Despite a riveting performance from Britt Lower, I Will Find You is one of the more ridiculous Coben adaptations we’ve seen, and that’s saying a lot.

“I Will Find You” is fun, as long as you don’t mind a mystery that makes no sense (a common Coben problem) and take no offense when outrageous coincidences are passed off as artful plotting.