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Critic Reviews
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The Missing is a feast--albeit the most chilly, emotionally devastating feast ever--for armchair sleuths.
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The Missing is a mystery that affects a family as well as community. In a season short on promising shows, this one should be at the top of your list.
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Baptiste wants to give them a happy ending, without ignoring the haunting lessons. By embracing him--as well as an ambitious premise-The Missing improves in Season 2.
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Though many of the elements here are familiar from other tales of disappearance and reappearance--it’s a veritable genre--each scene and every player is authentic in turn.
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Starz doesn't often deliver shows spoken of in the same qualitative terms as the best of HBO, Netflix or Showtime, but The Missing is just such a commodity -- the sort of ambitious, meticulously crafted character study that's well worth seeking out.
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The Missing is one compelling piece of work, full of what the anguish of having an abducted child does to a family over the years. It’s also a prickly mystery story that occasionally relies on a few too-neat coincidences to pull off its startling conclusion. The performance that ties everything together is Karyo’s.
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Though the premise is familiar, the emotional depth and shocking twists of The Missing redefine the genre. [13-26 Feb 2017, p.19]
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It’s an engaging mystery full of twists and turns that may not make complete sense when all put together, but moves quickly enough that you don’t care as it’s unfolding. Mystery fans shouldn’t miss it.
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The Missing is harrowing, absorbing, and difficult to stop watching; in its multifaceted storytelling about one toxic case in a small town, it offers a wide-ranging, intimate, and mercilessly honest view of human tragedy.
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It’s tighter and more confident, and the choice to again have one director (Ben Chanan) ties the episodes together visually.
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If you have an endless appetite for bleak suspense set in Northern Europe (and a lot of people do!), welcome home. [Feb 3/10 2017, p.103]
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The show toggles primarily from 2014 to the present, but some of the twists seem right out of Bad Thriller Handbook, especially the climax of the second night. ... Yet as these players elevate every turn and twist of this dark drama.
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Even with accomplished performers like David Morrissey and Keeley Hawes as the parents, Season 2 is the lesser in just about every way. It perks to life at the end, though, when the action settles into a cross-border manhunt that recaptures some of the eerie, hinterlands quality that made the first season distinctive.
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The series doesn’t lack for suspenseful moments, the settings are intriguing, and there’s much to be said for the strong performance by Mr. Morrissey and that of Roger Allam. ... None of this can offset the burdens of a production lost in its own wilderness of plot schemes.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 42 out of 50
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Mixed: 2 out of 50
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Negative: 6 out of 50
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Feb 19, 2017
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May 20, 2017