Another serialization of a Harlan Coben novel, over eight episodes, Red for Netflix. It's set in Blackpool, refreshingly.
This one has Cush Jumbo as a girl with a past which is seeking to come back on her. Also, people are going missing. James Nesbitt is an investigating detective, Joy Joyner his partner and ex-wife, Sarah Parish a bar manager.
There's a scene here when Cush decides she needs to sneak into the basement of the house she thinks a man who's out to get her is in - why? So she gets solicitor / heroin addict Eddie Izzard to distract the owner so she can sneak down there. That beggars belief.
Then there's a couple of dancing killers whose job is to find the missing boy, but all they do is kill people - why? This is the most bizarre and badly judged aspect to the whole thing. (Though wait till you get to the denouement.) It's the same porridge of nonsense as the last Coben thing we saw, Safe, which was also adapted by Danny Brocklehurst, Mick Ford and others.
With Richard Armitage, Bethany Antonia, Daniel Francis, Youssef Kerkour (Home).
Did LOVE though the nail varnish which if you dip in a drink it changes colour if it's been spiked. It's unfortunately not true but wouldn't it be great if it was?
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