A good start to the series, and in typical Harlan Coben fashion the suspicions swirl and every character is somehow connected to each other. Decent acting and intriguing storyline.
5 Reviews
Suspicions swirl
Calicodreamin19 January 2022
Yogurt in color
cjonesas27 February 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Episode 1: An episode which, aside the mysterious and exotic soundtrack, everything else looks like stirred yogurt.
Unmemorable acting, tedious storyline, cringe-worthy flow and basically nothing to remember besides the score.
Unmemorable acting, tedious storyline, cringe-worthy flow and basically nothing to remember besides the score.
Episode 1
Prismark102 January 2022
A Netflix drama based on a story by Harlan Coben.
It is one of these adaptations where everyone has something to hide.
A young man Carlton Flynn on a night out in Blackpool disappears. His drink was spiked and a carnival was taking place. 17 years earlier, a man called Stewart Green disappeared almost to the day.
A down on his luck photographer Ray might have caught a picture of Carlton. Maybe that was a reason why he was mugged and his camera stolen.
Green was obsessed with Megan (Cush Jumbo) who was an exotic dancer in Blackpool. Now she has rebuilt her life elsewhere, she has three children and is about to marry her partner.
Things are going well until an old face from the past reappears and tells Megan that Stewart Green is back. Megan is convinced that he is dead.
The police Michael (James Nesbitt) and Erin (Jo Joyner) a former married couple are looking into the disappearance of Carlton.
Stay Close tries to paint a seedy underbelly of Blackpool. In some ways it alludes to Brighton Rock. When Megan goes to see some guy called Harry Sutton (Eddie Izzard) he is off his head on drugs and two goons try to rob her.
It is moody and leisurely paced. Cush Jumbo was good but I did not find myself being grabbed by this yet although you just know a lot of people are connected with each other.
It is one of these adaptations where everyone has something to hide.
A young man Carlton Flynn on a night out in Blackpool disappears. His drink was spiked and a carnival was taking place. 17 years earlier, a man called Stewart Green disappeared almost to the day.
A down on his luck photographer Ray might have caught a picture of Carlton. Maybe that was a reason why he was mugged and his camera stolen.
Green was obsessed with Megan (Cush Jumbo) who was an exotic dancer in Blackpool. Now she has rebuilt her life elsewhere, she has three children and is about to marry her partner.
Things are going well until an old face from the past reappears and tells Megan that Stewart Green is back. Megan is convinced that he is dead.
The police Michael (James Nesbitt) and Erin (Jo Joyner) a former married couple are looking into the disappearance of Carlton.
Stay Close tries to paint a seedy underbelly of Blackpool. In some ways it alludes to Brighton Rock. When Megan goes to see some guy called Harry Sutton (Eddie Izzard) he is off his head on drugs and two goons try to rob her.
It is moody and leisurely paced. Cush Jumbo was good but I did not find myself being grabbed by this yet although you just know a lot of people are connected with each other.
Normalizing watching porn
scottsiegel-2383623 January 2022
Not worth the watch
D_Y_Evans8 April 2023
I'm not sure this would have been good without the terrible over the top score that dominates every second of the episode, but it's really hard to know because it is SO distracting, attempting to add tension to every second of an incredibly mundane experience. We get it. DRAMA. Except there is none.
Beyond this there isn't much to say, it is a fairly standard opening episode to any mystery drama series. Setting up unknowns and mystery to be unravelled. The score would have you think it was the penultimate episode, with the full storyline drama coming to a head. I truffle to understand the disconnect between the scripting and the direction of the score. Someone, somewhere in the production had no idea what this was supposed to be about.
Beyond this there isn't much to say, it is a fairly standard opening episode to any mystery drama series. Setting up unknowns and mystery to be unravelled. The score would have you think it was the penultimate episode, with the full storyline drama coming to a head. I truffle to understand the disconnect between the scripting and the direction of the score. Someone, somewhere in the production had no idea what this was supposed to be about.
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