As she tries to protect her family and confine her former life to the shadows, mysteries old and new come to light.
The suburban mother of three finds her past self, among other unsavory characters from her days as an exotic dancer, coming back to haunt her. She comes home after a tame night to find a note on her doorstep addressed to “Cassie.” Very early on, we learn that Megan has not always been Megan. We open on a bride-to-be, Megan Pierce ( Cush Jumbo), celebrating her bachelorette party with girlfriends.
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Stay Close is a rarity among the TV adaptations of Harlan Coben novels in that it features a female protagonist. The season was left on a cliffhanger, and though there was some tie-in with Hold Tight, here’s to hoping we will get to see this dark Polish tale resolve itself. The Woods is a tonal departure from the adaptations like The Stranger and The Five (another Coben show for Sky1), offering a slightly grittier take on the whodunit and a whodun what mystery.
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The series also boasts a convincing love-lost love story Kopinski is forced to team up with an old flame, Laura, a Jewish girl from that same camp. When Kopinski is called in to identify a body that seemingly connects to the mysteries of that 1994 summer, the wound is reopened and Kopinski’s unfinished business is as perplexing as ever. Another two, including his sister, vanished the same night. Pawel Kopinski ( Grzegorz Damięcki) is a successful lawyer who is haunted by the events of 1994 when two kids were found murdered at the aforementioned summer camp where he was a chaperone. Much like Gone For Good, The Woods flashes between two different timelines: a 1994 summer camp in the woods and 2019 Warsaw. In the end, while it lacks some of the emotional impacts of later entries, The Stranger is a pure delight from start to finish. These bizarre, seemingly separate events are only the starting point of the 8-episode series, which continues its break-neck twist and turn spree until its final moments.
Meanwhile, a local schoolboy and classmate of Price’s son is found lying naked in the woods, unconscious, prompting a police investigation that ties multiple storylines into one. The show follows Price's journey for the truth, as he pursues both his wife and the stranger who gave him the cryptic message. After he confronts his wife, she goes missing, leaving him more confused than ever before. When British suburban dad Adam Price ( Richard Armitage) is approached by a baseball-capped woman in her 20s ( Hannah-John Kamen), she tells him that his wife ( Dervla Kirwan) may have faked her miscarriages, and to get his children’s DNA tested. The Stranger is pure, unadulterated Harlan Coben fun. The setting alone adds a fresh dynamic to the constant bait-and-switch of a Coben mystery.
That being said, the show still serves up a healthy portion of episode-to-episode shockers and twists. This 5-part miniseries is a much more serious take on the Coben formula than most adaptations, focusing more on honest reactions than on pure shock value. A precarious series of coincidences link the two tragic days, bringing Guillaume and his best friend (who has his own demons to stave off), into the underworld of the riviera in search of his girlfriend, and ultimately, the truth. The episodes flash between present-day Nice, when Guillaume’s stunning girlfriend vanishes off the face of the earth, and Nice ten years ago when Guillaume’s ex-girlfriend and brother are shot and killed on the same night. Tackling the classic thematic material of Coben - lost loves, betrayals, family secrets - Gone For Good is the seductive tale of Guillaume ( Finnegan Oldfield), a social worker in the south of France.
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