Missing You – A Pilot From Harlan Coben to Netflix
Harlan Coben’s Missing You hit Netflix earlier this year. Rosalind Eleazar stars as Detective Inspector Kat Donovan, an emotionally vulnerable detective with whom Rosalind had her breakout role in Missing You.
After her fiance Josh (Ashley Walters) suddenly ghosts her without explanation, she is left devastated after learning about his death (played by Sir Lenny Henry).
Television series
Television series refer to collections of episodes that together tell one continuous narrative and can be broadcast simultaneously or serialized over time. TV shows typically follow seasons format with each season having multiple episodes; miniseries may only consist of limited number of episodes called mini-series. A television show can include sitcoms, dramas, reality TV programs or any genre. They must all follow scripted plot lines over multiple episodes to qualify as TV shows.
Television series typically follow an established format: an opening episode is followed by episodes featuring the same characters, followed by new ones that introduce different ones; with each final episode often concluding on an intriguing cliffhanger to keep viewers coming back for more. A good ending for any show determines whether or not audiences continue watching; therefore it is key that shows have strong endings that keep audiences interested.
Missing You, an adaptation of Harlan Coben’s book of the same name, follows a detective as she searches for her former flame who she suspects of killing her father. Unfortunately, its low budget fails to add any significant dimension or sense to its characters.
Adaptations
Harlan Coben’s new series Missing You is an addictive page-turner, following on from his 2024 Netflix hit Fool Me Once. Rosalind Eleazar stars as DI Kat Donovan – an expert at missing persons cases who is terminally single after Josh disappeared 11 years earlier without trace. She has close connections to Aqua (Mary Malone) and DCI Ellis Stagger (Richard Armitage in his fourth Coben adaptation role).
The movie’s nonlinear structure creates an indistinct line between fiction and reality. Based on Susan Orlean’s real-life book The Orchid Thief, but without romantic tension between Orlean and orchid grower John Laroche. Instead, filmmakers created fictional romantic subplot between Orlean and Laroche to emphasize perception as well as subjective nature of reality.
Though its plot is fast-paced and engaging, the film also examines our relationship to technology and environment. Therefore, the film may not appeal to everyone: as it’s more of a psychological thriller that makes you question your trust in digital world and what makes us human than an engaging film, as demonstrated by Kat making one small step toward reconciliation with Josh before closing credits roll.
Pilots
Pilot episodes serve to introduce the characters and setting for a television show. They usually begin with a teaser for the series before featuring an unforgettable twist at the end that changes how viewers see a character or sets up story for subsequent episodes. Pilots have been used by countless genres of television programming; some pilots even made it onto final cuts before premiering as television series such as Battlestar Galactica (1978) or Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979).
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Television films
The ancient fable of the Gordian knot, where an oxcart was bound by an inextricable knot that all its local residents vowed allegiance to anyone who could untie it, serves as a fitting analogy for TV movies today. As more shows adapt from books or become standalone films themselves, TV movie categories have expanded until it’s hard to know what’s included or excluded. 2020 nominees for Outstanding TV Movie demonstrate this confusion: anthology episodes, interactive episodes, stage adaptations or epilogues all compete under one banner; no lessen this until TV and film historians figure out ways of further distinguishing genres between these genres!
As television movie-making continues apace, some acclaimed flicks continue to hit screens. HBO’s 2013 biopic of Liberace “Behind the Candelabra,” won an Emmy award and received widespread acclaim due to its cast – Michael Douglas and Matt Damon as stars as well as Oscar-winner Steven Soderbergh as director.
TV movies tend to be created on a smaller budget than theatrical releases and feature shorter runs times, using techniques such as music video-style montages, repeated footage or dramatic slow motion sequences to increase running time. Some are even adapted from stage plays and shot on multi-camera to give an authentic theatrical effect.
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