Missing You (2025) is a mini-series that depicts twisted tales of love and modern-day crimes. The screenplay contains a fair share of expected and unexpected surprises.
“Missing You” A Shocking Tales Of Love & Crimes In Modern Times
Spoiler Free Review: Missing You (2025) Mini-Series
Trailer & Synopsis
Upon matching with her long-lost fiancé on a dating application, UK Police Detective Kat Donovan (Rosalind Eleazar) discovers that certain secrets are better left buried in the past.
Key Details
| Genre | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
| Original language | English (UK) |
| Season | One (1) Season |
| Episodes | Five (5) Episodes |
| Writers | Harlan Coben (Novel), Victoria Asare-Archer, & Sumerah Srivastav |
| Directors | Nimer Rashed & Isher Sahota |
| Main Cast | Rosalind Eleazar (Kat Donovan), Ashley Walters (Josh Buchanan), Richard Armitage (Ellis Stagger), Mary Malone (Aqua Vanech), Jessica Plummer (Stacey Embalo), Charlie Hamblett (Charlie Pitts), Catherine Ayers (Nia Emine), James Nesbitt (Dominic Calligan), Steve Pemberton (Titus), Felix Garcia Guyer (Reynaldo), Oscar Kennedy (Brendan Fells), Lisa Faulkner (Dana Fells), Lenny Henry (Clint Donovan), Brigid Zengeni (Odette Donovan), etc. |
| Tagline | Nothing burns like an Old flame |
| Network | Netflix |
Screenplay based on Harlan Coben’s mystery novel
This five-part limited series is inspired by Harlan Coben’s successful 2014 novel of the same title. However, in this series, its creators have moved the setting of the story from New York City (USA) to Manchester (UK). The story follows police detective Kat Donovan (Rosalind Eleazar) as she revisits the intricate mystery surrounding the murder of her father, Clint Donovan. As we expected, the story follows the typical trajectory of Harlan Coben’s novel storyline that we have seen in his series including the “Fool Me Once” (2024) show.
While carrying out the two parallel investigations, police detective Kat Donovan comes across quite a few shocking surprises and revelations. To add an extra layer of mystery to its main plotline, a parallel crime subplot is introduced in the show. So, we get to see a cruel and sinister side of modern-day crime driven purely by insatiable greed. To be honest, somehow we could predict what was going to happen, on most occasions.
Manchester Police Detective Kat Donovan is the lead character
Manchester Police Detective Kat Donovan is the protagonist of this suspense drama. In other words, Rosalind Eleazar plays the lead role and carries the show admirably. It is interesting to note, that almost all the characters are hiding a key piece of truth from Kat, viz., her mother, her friends, and her colleagues in the police. Therefore, her needle of suspicion tends to point her towards her near and dear ones. Unable to live like this, Kat decides to seek the unpalatable truth about the mysterious murder of her father. The rest of the characters played their parts well in keeping the shocking secrets and revealing them, one piece at a time.
About the Actors’ (Males & Females) performances
We liked the performances of Rosalind Eleazar (Kat Donovan), Richard Armitage (Ellis Stagger), Mary Malone (Aqua Vanech), Steve Pemberton (Titus), etc. The rest of the ensemble cast played their parts well too. With each character (actors) holding a key piece of the puzzle (murder case), we enjoyed watching them.
Noticeably, this will be the fourth instance of a Harlan Coben novel being adapted, with Richard Armitage prominently featured. In this series, he did try hard to become a suspicious character. Also, it was fun to watch Steve Pemberton play the negative role after we saw him in the dark comedy “The Cleaner” (S3/2024) Series, not so long ago.
The conclusion
Missing You was a fairly decent show to watch on the 2025 New Year’s first day. With only five episodes, perhaps it is the perfect show for a marathon (binge) watch in cold winter.
FM Rating
| FM Rating | 3.15/5 |
Poster
Spoilers Alerts: 5 Episodes Summary of this Limited Series
Synopsis of the Five (5) Episodes of the Missing You (2025) Mini-Series
Notably, all episodes feature titles that are inspired by popular English song titles.
Every Breath You Take (S1, E1) | 46 minutes
Detective Kat Donovan is confronted with her past when she encounters the man she once loved – and learns some news about one she loathes.
With or Without You (S1, E2) | 41 minutes
Kat begs Stagger to help her extract a confession from LeBurne, and Stacey offers to look for Josh. Someone needing help from Kat arrives at the station.
Never Too Much (S1, E3) | 45 minutes
Defying Stagger’s direct orders, Kat continues to look into Dana’s case – and learns that she might not have known Josh as well as she thought she did.
Don’t You Forget About Me (S1, E4) | 46 minutes
After questioning Brendan’s attacker, Kat tries again to track down Josh, but instead comes face-to-face with the last person she ever expected to see.
Chain Reaction (S1, E5) | 45 minutes
Kat finally gets the answers she’s been searching for these last 11 years. Time is running out for Dana, and Titus goes searching for Brendan.
Bonus:- the link to one of our favourite song | The Police - Every Breath You Take (Official Music Video)| YouTube.
The Poster and Featured Image of the Missing You (2025) Limited Mini-Series are credited to the Netflix network.
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