Madeleine Rayner posted: " NetFlix: 1 season, 8 episodes Rating: 4/5 Stay Close is about a group of people haunted by their past – a past that's come rushing forward into the present, threatening to disrupt their comfortable if stagnant suburban lives. Megan Pierce ("
Stay Close is about a group of people haunted by their past – a past that's come rushing forward into the present, threatening to disrupt their comfortable if stagnant suburban lives.
Megan Pierce (Cush Jumbo) is a mother of three who reinvented herself seventeen years previously; Mike Broome (James Nesbitt) is a burned-out detective still obsessed with a seventeen-year-old cold-case; Ray Levine (Richard Armitage) is a struggling photographer still reeling from the disappearance of his girlfriend seventeen years earlier.
The characters' lives are intertwined, and Stay Close weaves a complex plot as it moves from one thread of its story to the next.
One of the biggest mysteries is about the fate of Stewart Green, an abusive man who became obsessed with nightclub dancer Cassie (Cush Jumbo), before mysteriously disappearing one night 17 years ago.
I started watching this in the late afternoon, and ended up watching the whole story. In my opinion, this made it much easier to follow the story which is a little convoluted. It meant that I got the entire story in one hit, with its stunning conclusion.
Having read quite a few of Harlan Coben books, I expected lots to twists and turns. And this series has many. The back stories of the main characters are also revealed, but not in a way to distract from the actual plot.
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