What it lacks in charm, it makes up for in gunfire and shootouts with preposterous villains. And while Harlan Coben thrillers almost all include flashbacks to decades earlier (sometimes relying on a wig to de-age an actor by 20 years, with… variable results), here, the time jumps between 2010, 20 confuse rather than engage. The dialogue veers between perfunctory exposition (“Remember, we have to get up early for your mum’s funeral,”) and melodrama, the characters are bland or cliched, the performances uncharismatic and the story sadly lacks any convincing surprises. So unravels a complicated crime story with a needlessly repetitive structure. It’s the story of Guillaume, a young man who suffers a dreadful loss in 2010, but then repairs his life just in time for it all to fall apart again in 2020 with the disappearance of his girlfriend. The coastal city of Nice makes a très beau backdrop for this French adaptation of Coben’s 2002 New Jersey-set novel Gone for Good, but that’s more or less all this five-part thriller has going for it. Here then, are all ten Harlan Coben series so far ( Shelter and more are also on their way) listed in order from least to most enjoyable, along with details of where they can be streamed. If you’re watching with subtitles then, expect more nudity and sexual violence, and fewer comedy alpacas. The European adaptations (so far there have been three French, one Spanish and two Polish, with more on the way) tend to be less fun than the UK-set series, which lean into their high-colour absurdity with more gleeful abandon. They’re largely fun, is the point, despite an over-reliance on unlikely coincidence and a tendency to unravel come the finale.
They’re all filled with cliff-hangers, twists, secret identities, surprise resurrections, flashback wigs, and oh-no-it-was-you-all-along reveals. Binge-watches par excellence, each one of these series is precision-designed to be gulped down in very few bites.Īs these stories all shop for plot in the same aisle, chances are that if you enjoy one Harlan Coben thriller, you’ll enjoy the others. They’re packed with incident and revelations, and are generally performed by a charismatic cast so big that you’ll never quite meet them all, let alone tire of their company. Nearly all of them though, are compulsive viewing and will pull you through a bucking and twisting story at the speed of a beagle on the scent of a nearby sausage.
The immediate flaw in any attempt to stack the ten extant Harlan Coben TV thrillers in order of greatness is that none of them are exactly great.
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