Netflix's 'I Will Find You' Scores as Another Coben
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- I Will Find You adapts Harlan Coben's 2023 novel into an eight-episode Netflix mystery thriller written by Robert Hull, continuing the streamer's run of Coben adaptations after 'Run Away,' 'Fool Me Once' and 'Missing You.'
- Sam Worthington stars as David Burroughs, a Maine lifer convicted of murdering his 3-year-old son Matthew on DNA and eyewitness evidence, who has refused all visitors for five years.
- Britt Lower plays Rachel Mills, David's former sister-in-law, whose discovery of a boy resembling Matthew — including his distinctive cheek birthmark — in a stranger's social media photo triggers David's prison break.
- Christopher Redman plays rogue corrections officer Ted Wesson, who targets David in prison; Logan Browning and Chi McBride lead the FBI Fugitive Task Force hunting him after the breakout.
- Milo Ventimiglia appears as Rachel's wealthy ex-boyfriend Hayden Payne, and the conspiracy the pair unravel stretches from Revere, Massachusetts to Geneva, Switzerland over a decade.
- The review praises the show as 'highly bingeable' and 'gripping,' saying its final two episodes deliver twists no viewer can anticipate, and frames love and obsession as the engine driving the story.
- I Will Find You is now streaming on Netflix.
Why it matters: Netflix has now built a reliable brand out of Harlan Coben page-to-screen thrillers, and 'I Will Find You' reinforces that playbook with a prison-break premise and a sprawling international conspiracy. For viewers, the show delivers a self-contained, eight-episode binge that signals the Coben pipeline on Netflix still has creative fuel left.
