Netflix signed a five-year, multimillion-dollar deal with author Harlan Coben back in 2018, giving the streaming giant exclusive rights to adapt 14 of Coben’s mystery novels into TV shows or movies. Several of those adaptations have already gone on to be major streaming hits for Netflix, including 2020’s The Stranger — and the newest result of that pact, Missing You, has likewise achieved hit status only a few days after launching on Netflix.
The latter is the #1 Netflix TV show worldwide this week, according to the latest global TV chart the streamer publishes weekly. We’ll take a closer look at Missing You below, as well as the rest of what’s hot on the streamer at the moment.
Netflix Top 10 shows
Here’s a look at this week’s complete list of the Top 10 English-language shows on Netflix.
- Missing You — 21.7 million views
- Virgin River (Season 6) — 5.2 million views
- Black Doves (Season 1) — 5 million views
- Departure (Season 1) — 3.6 million views
- The Madness — 2.8 million views
- Your Friend, Nate Bargatze — 2.5 million views
- No Good Deed (Season 1) — 2.3 million views
- Torching 2024: A Roast of the Year — 2.1 million views
- The Night Agent (Season 1) — 1.6 million views
- Departure (Season 2) — 1.6 million views
To learn more about some of this week’s other most-watched series, you can go deeper by checking out our previous coverage of some of the Netflix originals on this list — including the British spy series Black Doves, starring Keira Knightley, as well as the new black comedy No Good Deed, from Dead to Me creator Liz Feldman. For now, though, let’s focus on the biggest Netflix TV release in the world at the moment.
Missing You — #1 on Netflix
The twist in Netflix’s newest Coben adaptation, which is a Top 10 show in 89 countries this week, is certainly a fascinating one. It’s as follows: More than a decade ago, Detective Kat Donovan’s (Rosalind Eleazar) fiancé abruptly disappeared, and she hasn’t heard from him since. Suddenly, while swiping profiles on a dating app, she sees his face again for the first time. It’s a strange reappearance that, among other things, forces her to revisit the mystery surrounding her father’s murder and uncover long-buried secrets from her past.
“There’s a bigger conspiracy at work here, one that Kat has to really uncover,” Coben said in a Netflix promotional interview. “It starts very, very small, but at the end of Episode 1, you realize this is going to be something that affects a lot of people. But mostly it’s about the heart. It’s about that longing. Most of us have someone in our lives who we’ve dated and, in a sense, is a ‘what if.’ And for Kat, this is the ultimate ‘what if.’”
Missing You follows other must-see Netflix series adapted from Coben’s stories, like Stay Close, Fool Me Once, and The Stranger.
