While all the focus was on ‘The squid game’, the big star premiere at the end of the year, another unexpected title appeared on the scene to become a good rival that threatens to snatch the reign of what for many is one of the best Netflix series. We refer to ‘I miss you’, the mystery series based on the novel of the same name by the great Harlan Coben. It is not the first time that a work by this North American author ends up on the screen, since on the same platform we find several with her signature and, curiously, almost all of them usually end up in the top 10 most viewed. The latter is no exception and it is not surprising because it has all the ingredients to get you hooked: family dramas, dark secrets and unexpected turns of events.
With only five chapters of less than an hour that invite you to do an afternoon marathon, if you are here it is possible that you have finished it and are looking for answers that we are going to give you in the explained ending of ‘I miss you’. Obviously, if you haven’t reached the last chapter, from now on you will find ‘spoilers’.
The addictive series begins by introducing us to Detective Kat Donovan, a police officer who has been dealing for years with the grief of having been abandoned by her future husband and the murder of her father, also an agent. As we discovered throughout the first four episodes, Josh, her ex-partner, had something to hide and it was related to his father, although we do not know exactly what happened until the last episode.
Donovan discovers that his father was not the honest man he imagined and that he led a double life. For years, he had been in a relationship with Parker, another man with whom he meets to find out the truth. The night the two men were breaking up, Kat’s friend Aqua found them arguing, so her father ran after her to stop her from ratting her out. Very nervous, he scolds her and hits her because he thinks she called his daughter to explain what he had seen. At that moment, Josh, Kat’s boyfriend, enters the house and in the midst of a struggle, accidentally stabs his father-in-law.
In the middle of the dramatic situation, Sergeant Stagger, companion of the injured man and his daughter, appears and after verifying that he has died, he develops a plan so that those present can escape unscathed and take the blame for a murderer who was already serving time for other crimes. previous. We are aware of this situation, when Kat finds out, through another colleague at the police station, that the fingerprints found on the murder weapon match those of Josh, with whom she had given herself a new opportunity after meeting again.
They are both at Kat’s house and when she asks him for an explanation, he tells her the truth and assures her that it was an accident and that he left because he couldn’t handle the guilt. In the last sequence, we see both broken people sitting on the bed, staring into space, until the camera focuses on their approaching hands. Are Kat and Josh still together? We don’t know what happens after that moment, but the gesture seems to indicate that the woman is capable of understanding the situation and forgiving, although we will always be left wondering if there is a future between the two of them. With that unknown in the air, we can only tell you that if you liked the style of this story, you can continue with other series based on novels by Harlan Coben.
Marieta Taibó is current affairs and culture editor at Cosmopolitan and a film and television series expert for more than a decade. When she’s not writing, you’ll find her in front of the screen analyzing the latest releases from Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, Disney+ and the rest of the streaming platforms to recommend those interesting or killer titles. Between criticism and television fiction news, interviews with actors. In his recorder you will find talks from his interviews with Blanca Suárez, Mario Casas, Úrsula Corberó, Ana de Armas, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Lily Collins, yes, ‘Emily in Paris’ or Christina Hendricks, the redhead from ‘Mad Men’ , to name a few names. Off-screen, it will also recommend the best leisure and gastronomic plans. In other professional stages, she has also written about fashion and beauty. In fact, she is the author of the essay ‘The secret face of the beauty business’, from the Almuzara publishing house. Marieta Taibo has a degree in journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid and has a Higher Course in Fashion and Luxury Marketing and Communication from Elle magazine and the Complutense University. Her first steps as an editor were in the economics section of La Clave current affairs magazine until she made the leap to society and culture, her true passion. Later, she worked at El Confidencial, and then at the women’s magazine AR as coordinator of the cultural agenda and head of the film section. From there, she made the leap to the magazines Supertele and TP and spent ten years there writing about films and series, work that she combined as a contributor to Babylon Magazine doing in-depth reports on culture, until she arrived at Cosmopolitan six years ago.
