This article contains spoilers for ‘I Will Find You’
You may have noticed that primetime television has been taken over by the World Cup. Great news if you love the beautiful game, but if the idea of sitting through 90 minutes of Tunisia vs Japan doesn’t set your world alight, it’s hard not to feel as though we’ve been abandoned by our best broadcasters. So, this week I turned to the streamers, which seem to have also paused any decent output, presumably for fear that we’ll all be watching the football.
And that, dear reader, is how I ended up watching I Will Find You – a new series by Harlan Coben, a writer I don’t usually rate, on Netflix, a streaming service I don’t like. Desperate times.
To my surprise, the eight-part drama is a zippy, moreish adaptation of Coben’s 2023 novel – his 33rd – of the same name. It takes us to a high-security prison in Maine, where David Burroughs (Avatar’s Sam Worthington) is serving a life sentence for the brutal murder of his three-year-old son Matthew, a crime he is adamant he didn’t commit.
Sam Worthington plays David, a man who has been falsely accused of murdering his son (Photo: Christos Kalohoridis/Netflix)Given the extreme barbarity of his supposed crime, David hasn’t spoken to any of his family since he was sentenced five years ago. Which is why it’s strange when his ex-sister-in-law Rachel Mills (played by the excellent Britt Lower of Severance fame) turns up at the prison. She shows him a picture of three girls at a fair – in the background of which is a boy who looks remarkably like Matthew, down to the distinctive birthmark on his cheek.
So begins one of the most unbelievable and silliest (often to the point of stupid) series I’ve ever watched. The twists – a prison break, an insemination scandal, a run-in with the Boston mob – come at breakneck speed, each of them more ridiculous than the last, hurtling you into the next 45-minute episode with more questions than answers. Questions like “Who is that guy?” and “What does she want?” and, most often, “What on Earth is going on?”
Summer is a time for blockbusters. For new Steven Spielberg alien adventures and a new James Bond shoot-’em-up video game (excellent, by the way). For explosions and twisty storylines that don’t necessarily need to be followed or even understood. For a Netflix series about a bloke who apparently has the skills to evade the FBI for weeks while he looks for his son who may or may not be A) dead and B) his. (Sorry for the spoiler, but two episodes in and you’ll see that particular twist coming a mile off.)
Logan Browning plays a scrappy FBI agent on prison escapee David’s tail (Photo: Amanda Matlovich/Netflix)I Will Find You isn’t completely awful – even in the summer silly season I have standards. Both Worthington and Lower remain sincere and convincing even when their characters make nonsensical, bizarre decisions, and there are some brilliant action-packed set pieces. It’s surely impossible not to enjoy watching an escaped prisoner chased by a scrappy FBI agent across the rooftops of New York City.
I haven’t liked any of Harlan Coben’s series on Netflix. Not because they’ve all been set in the UK (though something about the American setting of I Will Find You does help me forgive its eccentricities) and not because they all feature the same actor (I have a soft spot for James Nesbitt), but because they’ve all had that same shlocky, lackadaisical approach to storytelling. Now I’m wondering if the fact most of them were released on New Year’s Day – when I’m ready to sink my teeth into something serious after party season – had something to do with it, too.
As a TV critic with a reputation to uphold, I can’t honestly recommend I Will Find You as a good series. But as a TV fan who understands that not everything has to be a five-star barrier breaking conversation starter, I thoroughly endorse giving it a go. It is, at least, the perfect show to watch on your phone while the big television is showing the football.
‘I Will Find You’ is streaming on Netflix
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