Netflix’s I Will Find You: Reviews, Cast, What To Watch Next

Netflix’s new Harlan Coben drama, I Will Find You, hit the streamer today (Thursday, June 18).

Avatar star Sam Worthington plays a father (David Burroughs) accused of killing his own son.

But when the dad, who insists on his innocence, sees what looks like a literal get-out-of-jail-free card from his sister (Rachel Severance’s Britt Lower), he realises he’ll need to escape to show he didn’t commit the crime.

Netflix has described the series as a “thriller… filled with the kinds of twists and turns that will make hearts pound and heads spin”.

Which begs the question – what are the critics saying? And if (as early reviews suggest will happen) you find its tense episodes unmissable, what should you watch next?

Early reviews stress how ridiculously addictive the TV show is, despite some plot holes. Even those that didn’t seem to love the series on its objective merits had to hand it to I Will Find You: it’s still super-watchable.

“The script is made of Play-Doh and our protagonists are but flaps of luncheon meat pegged to a washing line. And yet still we must – must! – find out what happens. And so we stagger, dazed, into the next episode. And the episode after that… maddeningly watchable.”

“Though the series boasts a massive web of characters and circumstances, each one is there for a purpose. After all, when the wild and riveting puzzle pieces finally snap together in the final two episodes, the most perceptive viewer won’t be able to say they knew what was coming next.”

“Faulty accents aside, the ensemble is really solid and, along with capable polish courtesy of directors including Brad Anderson and Maja Vrvilo, goes a long way toward making I Will Find You feel like less of a rush job than some of the string of Coben adaptations that have flooded Netflix and Amazon in recent years.”

“Harlan Coben’s I Will Find You is like a midweek school dinner: its substance and style aren’t going to blow you away, but it’s incredibly dependable. More importantly, it’ll fill your appetite for whodunnits, even if you guess a few things along the way.”

“As a time filler, there’s nothing especially wrong with I Will Find You. It’s just the kind of show that signals the gulf between ‘streaming’ and ‘TV’ is shrinking, and has perhaps closed almost entirely. The sort of show that, if you could leave it behind in the place you were staying once you were done with it, for the next weary traveller to find, like a dog-eared paperback, you almost certainly would.”

“I Will Find You ends, in the best traditions of the throwaway thriller, with a last twist that doesn’t make sense when you stop and think about it – if you want to stop and think, Harlan Coben is not your guy. On home turf, however, he knows what he’s doing.”

″…Objectively horrid. But I admittedly kept going, soaking myself in every ludicrous plot turn, and not only because my editor was more or less holding a gun to my head the entire time… [Halrlan Coben will] get us all in the end, won’t he? Resistance is futile.”

“If you’re already a fan of Harlan Coben thrillers, you’ll know how gripping they can be and I Will Find You is no exception… [it has a] real emotional depth that we often don’t see in the author’s TV adaptations. In our opinion, it’s up there with his best work to date.”

Netflix’s new drop includes eight episodes, the streamer said.

Who’s in the I Will Find You cast?

If you’ve bing-watched I Will Find You, we have some good news: Netflix has an entire Harlan Coben collection of shows based on the authors’ books.

1. Caught (2025),
2. Fool Me Once (2024),
3. Gone for Good (2021),
4. Hold Tight (2022),
5. The Innocent (2021),
6. Just One Look (2025),
7. Missing You (2025),
8. Run Away (2026),
9. Safe (2018),
10. Stay Close (2021),
11. The Stranger (2022),
12. The Woods (2020).