Netflix's 'Missing You' Trailer Promises a Thrilling New Year

Netflix initially stumbled into success with U.K. audiences on New Year's Day in 2022, when the streaming service released its miniseries adaptation of Harlan Coben's Stay Close on New Year's Eve 2021 and discovered half of the U.K. had tuned in to watch the next day. Stay Close may have been an accident, but the streaming service's follow-up, Fool Me Once, which arrived on New Year's Day 2024, was a deliberate move. The limited series wound up not just the most-watched title on streaming in the U.K. that weekend but one of the most-watched Netflix originals, period, in the first half of the year; now Netflix hopes to repeat that success in 2025 with Missing You.

Like Netflix's previous adaptations of the American author's works, Stay Close and Fool Me Once reset Coben's novels from the New Jersey/New York area to the U.K. and starred Richard Armitage, whose streak of starring in Coben titles, playing a lead role in every English-language adaptation produced by Netflix, will reach five with Missing You's debut. Missing You will also be reset to the U.K., filmed in Manchester and the North West of England. Whether or not the new story will hit as hard as its predecessors remains to be seen, but the formula seems solid.

Netflix is already betting on more Coben for New Year's Day 2026, with the author's next novel to be adapted, Run Away, greenlit, and ready to film. Meanwhile, the first trailer for Missing You has arrived, building excitement for fans of Coben's mysteries.