This Wild ‘The Fugitive’ Knockoff Is Your Next Netflix Binge

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Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Netflix So pulpy you’re apt to need floss after each episode, I Will Find You gets high marks for concision and energy but considerably lower grades for plausibility. A beach paperback thriller in eight-episode streaming form, Robert Hull’s Netflix adaptation of Harlan Coben’s bestseller is the rare modern TV effort to never dawdle. Unfortunately, though, its fleet pace is due to plotting that’s too rife with convenient twists and instantaneous deductions—and, courtesy of its story’s particulars, resembles a Temu version of The Fugitive . Overflowing with the sort of junk-food melodrama that’ll make viewers crave additional servings (no matter how bad they feel afterward), I Will Find You (June 18) concerns David Burroughs (Sam Worthington), who’s serving time for killing his adolescent son Matthew (Ashton Cressman) with a baseball bat while the boy slept in his bed. Read more at The Daily Beast.