Genre: TV Series
Grade: A
Notable People: Tcheky Karyo, James Nesbitt, Frances O’Connor, Created by: Jack and Harry Williams
Title: The Missing
Review: This is the precursor to Baptiste, which I reviewed a few weeks ago, and is the origin of the Baptiste charter, astoundingly portrayed by Tcheky Karyo. He’s a strange cross between Foyle (of Foyles’ War) and Colombo. The story of a missing child and his parents eight-year journey to find him in the remote French countryside is so compelling it’s hard to not binge watch it. Very complex drama about loss, giving and relationships, built around the extraordinary presence of Baptiste…. a man who never (I mean never ) gives up. Subtle, profound, riveting. There is a second season which we are just starting- but a completely separate storyline for the aging Batiste to obsess over. A gem!