Sam Worthington<\/a>! Milo Ventimiglia! The redhead from Severance!) and a big, stonking Netflix budget. In many ways, it\u2019s more of the same, though: an overcranked feast of absolute nonsense that grows increasingly loopy as it goes on. By the end of its eight episodes, my brain had turned to soup. I was no longer able to discern good from bad. I didn\u2019t know if I was awake or dreaming. I stopped asking if the gravelly voiced Worthington was meant to be playing an American or an Australian, and decided he was just trying to sound like Batman. It made as much sense as anything else, honestly.<\/p>\n![\"Sam](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/I_Will_Find_You_n_S1_E2_00_00_21_11_R.jpeg\")
Sam Worthington is a very angry fugitive (who sounds like Batman) in \u2018Harlan Coben\u2019s I Will Find You\u2019 (Netflix)<\/p>\n
Worthington plays David Burroughs, a man imprisoned for murdering his three-year-old son in a crime so violent that the boy could only be identified through his DNA. Hmm. Severance\u2019s Britt Lower is a disgraced investigative reporter who believes David was the patsy in an elaborate conspiracy, her smoking gun being a photograph she\u2019s discovered of a slightly aged child (with a distinct birthmark on his face, naturally) who she\u2019s convinced is David\u2019s actually-not-dead offspring. Hmm, once again,<\/p>\n
If you read the above and went woo, that\u2019s quite a lot! please note that this is maybe 10 minutes\u2019 worth of Hardly Colon\u2019s I Will Find You, which over the course of its eight episodes becomes Prison Break, The Fugitive, Taken, The Silence of the Lambs, and the televisual equivalent of having your head repeatedly dunked in a toilet bowl. There is such a bombardment of plot and thinly sketched characters that there\u2019s barely enough time to take in every ludicrous twist before the next one arrives.<\/p>\n
An example: David\u2019s ex-wife, a paediatric surgeon named Cheryl, was called away on the night of their son\u2019s murder because there had been a catastrophic bus accident in the city. Only, Lower\u2019s girl reporter discovers, there was no bus accident. And the on-call doctor who alerted her that night was none other than the man she ended up marrying after she divorced David. But Cheryl\u2019s new husband insists that he didn\u2019t lie to her because he\u2019s been secretly evil the entire time, but because he always had a crush on her, and wanted to spend the night with her. It was a mere coincidence that her son was also horribly killed that night, he pleads.<\/p>\n
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Worthington and Britt Lower in \u2018Harlan Coben\u2019s I Will Find You\u2019 (Netflix)<\/p>\n
The above is pure Cobenese, in that it doesn\u2019t remotely hold up under scrutiny (so Cheryl just\u2026 didn\u2019t notice there wasn\u2019t a catastrophic bus accident when she arrived at the hospital?) and in that it\u2019s the exact kind of interconnected silliness that Coben\u2019s work thrives upon. Everyone in I Will Find You is romantically or biologically linked to someone else, be it the two FBI agents (Chi McBride and Logan Browning) pursuing the on-the-run David, or Lower\u2019s character, who is not only the ex-girlfriend of Ventimiglia\u2019s mysteriously ever-present rich boy, but also David\u2019s former sister-in-law. And if they\u2019re not initially related to someone else, an eleventh-hour reveal will fix that.<\/p>\n
Of course, all of this is objectively horrid. But I admittedly kept going, soaking myself in every ludicrous plot turn, and not only because my editor was more or less holding a gun to my head the entire time. These shows are huge now, made for people who love to second-screen television, where you can keep one eye on your TikTok feed while still keeping up with the gist of the story. Nineties stalwart Madeleine Stowe eventually shows up as a vampy big pharma heiress, and then we flash back years earlier to meet a tiny Swiss boy left abandoned at a grotty orphanage. Sperm samples are swapped. Identities are changed. A woman named Hilde is gunned down in broad daylight by a man named Skunk. I kept thinking of the last scene in the 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Donald Sutherland letting out that high-pitched scream as Brooke Adams realises she\u2019s the only person left whose mind hasn\u2019t been taken over by a parasitic alien. Adams being me, in this case, and the parasitic alien being Harlan Coben. He\u2019ll get us all in the end, won\u2019t he? Resistance is futile.<\/p>\n
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