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title: "I Will Find You"
year: 2026
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canonical: "https://film.one/tv/i-will-find-you"
fi1m_id: "i-will-find-you"
imdb_id: "tt34771210"
tmdb_id: 278178
wikidata_id: "Q134412018"
fi1m_score: 56
critics_score: 60
critics_reviews: 12
published: "2026-09-23T13:28:24.570770+00:00"
updated: "2026-09-23T13:28:39.435186+00:00"
region: "ES"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# I Will Find You (2026)

Created by Robert Hull · ICAA 16 · Drama, Mystery, Crime

## Identity

I Will Find You

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/tv/i-will-find-you
- **Type:** Series
- **Fi1m ID:** i-will-find-you
- **IMDb ID:** tt34771210
- **TMDB ID:** 278178
- **Wikidata ID:** Q134412018
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34771210/, https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/278178, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134412018

**Fi1m score: 56** · Critics 60 from 12 reviews

*In a sentence:* A father breaks out of prison on the strength of a blurry photograph, and that is the believable part

> The latest Harlan Coben adaptation puts Sam Worthington over a prison wall in pursuit of a photograph, then piles twist on twist until the ground gives way. Brisk and watchable, with two good FBI agents, and it does not survive being thought about.

## Synopsis

David Burroughs (Sam Worthington) is serving a life sentence for the murder of his young son, a crime he insists he did not commit. Years in, his former sister-in-law Rachel Mills (Britt Lower) visits with a photograph taken at a theme park. In the background stands a boy the age his son would now be, with his son’s face. Rachel wants him to look; David wants out. Getting over the wall needs help from inside, and Warden Phillip Mackenzie (Peter Outerbridge) is the unlikely place it comes from. Once David is gone, FBI agents Max Williams (Chi McBride) and Sarah Greer (Logan Browning) are handed the manhunt, and his ex-wife Cheryl Dreason (Erin Richards), remarried to Ronald Dreason (Aaron Ashmore), gets the knock on the door she has spent years dreading.

## Review

Harlan Coben’s novels now arrive on television at the rate of about one a year, and *I Will Find You* is the latest and one of the most breathless. Robert Hull’s eight-part adaptation puts Sam Worthington in a cell for a murder he says he did not do, hands him a photograph of a boy who might be the son he is supposed to have killed, and gets him over the wall before the first episode is out. From there it is a chase, a conspiracy and a rug-pull roughly every forty minutes. It is brisk, it is silly, and by the end it had stopped making sense in ways we could not forgive, even while we were still watching it.

Worthington is the right man for it. He plays David Burroughs as a big, slow, damaged animal who has spent years deliberately not thinking, and the scene in the visiting room where Rachel Mills (Britt Lower) slides the photograph across the table is the best thing in the series. He looks, looks away, and then cannot stop looking. It got us. We were not expecting to be moved by a Coben adaptation, and for about two minutes we were. Lower plays Rachel dry and quick, a woman with her own reasons for wanting this story, and the two of them argue like people who used to be family.

The series is better still when it leaves them. Chi McBride and Logan Browning, as FBI agents Max Williams and Sarah Greer, are given the manhunt and a running argument about procedure, lunch and each other, and every scene they share is sharper and funnier than the one before. McBride does world-weariness without visible effort; Browning is the one who has read the file. Most critics have said the same and we agree. On this evidence they should have the series and Worthington should be the guest.

The trouble is the plot, which is to say the point. Coben’s method is to end every chapter with a door slamming, and Hull and his fellow writers Steven Lilien, Bryan Wynbrandt and Heather Mitchell keep faith with it. Each episode ends on a reveal and the next begins by explaining it, usually at length, usually to someone with no reason to be told. By the fourth episode we had stopped believing anyone and were still, to our slight irritation, pressing play on the fifth. By the seventh we were annoyed, because the series had made us care about the boy and then treated him as a piece to be moved round the board. There is a late twist we will not describe. We will say it made us laugh, and the series did not mean it to.

It is made in shifts. Four directors, Maggie Kiley, Adam Davidson, Maja Vrvilo and Brad Anderson, four editors and two cinematographers, Fraser Brown and Boris Mojsovski, share the eight episodes, and it shows. The prison hours are dim, green and handheld; the later ones are brightly lit and cut to the rhythm of the next reveal, and the join is visible. Mark Steel’s production design gives David’s cell and Cheryl’s new kitchen the same beige anonymity, which may be a point about grief or may be a schedule. Saunder Jurriaans and Danny Bensi supply the low string drone television thrillers now come with as standard, and it does the job of telling us something is wrong even when the scene is two people eating.

*The Stranger* (2020) was the good one: it had a mystery you could hold in your head and a cast that behaved like adults. *Fool Me Once* (2024) had Michelle Keegan and a straight face. *I Will Find You* has more plot than either and less patience, and it is the first of these that let us see the trick being done. Erin Richards, as David’s ex-wife Cheryl, has the hardest job, a woman who has grieved and rebuilt and is asked to do both again on camera, and she does more with her silences than the script does with its speeches. Milo Ventimiglia turns up in the second half and we will leave him there.

It carries a 15, mostly for the prison. Watch it with someone who enjoys guessing wrong, and over a few evenings rather than one, because the reveals land more softly with a night’s sleep between them and you will mind the explanations less if you have half forgotten what they are explaining. We finished it. We offer that as a fact rather than a recommendation.

*Fi1m score 56, published 23 September 2026.*

## What the critics say

The reviews land in the middle, and most critics agree on why: this is another Harlan Coben adaptation that is silly, preposterous and hard to stop watching. The praise clusters on pace and cast. Nearly everyone credits the speed of the plotting for carrying viewers past the nonsense, and several single out Chi McBride and Logan Browning as bickering FBI partners who are the best thing in it; Radio Times suggests they could carry a spin-off. Sam Worthington is judged a sound action lead, and The i Paper credits him and Britt Lower with sincere performances that make the nonsense watchable.

The reservations cluster on the twists. Critics count plot holes, red herrings, clunky exposition and reveals that strain belief; The Telegraph finds one reveal the stupidest it can remember. The spread is wide, from Variety’s outright enthusiasm to The Independent finding it awful yet irresistible. The AV Club and Digital Spy dissent further, finding it flat and skippable rather than addictive.

## Straight answers

**Is I Will Find You worth watching?**

*I Will Find You* is worth watching only if you enjoy a Harlan Coben adaptation for the twists rather than the sense, and we scored it 56. Sam Worthington is well cast and Chi McBride and Logan Browning are the best reason to keep going, but the plot stops holding together by the fourth episode and never recovers.

**How long is I Will Find You, and what is it rated?**

*I Will Find You* is rated 16 by the ICAA in Spain. It is a drama and mystery series.

**Where can I watch I Will Find You in Spain?**

*I Will Find You* is streaming on Netflix in Spain. Availability is checked daily; the links above go straight to each service.

**How violent or frightening is I Will Find You, and is it suitable for children?**

*I Will Find You* carries a UK 15 certificate, mostly for the prison episodes, which are dim, handheld and rough. It is a crime thriller built around the murder of a child and a father's grief rather than sustained violence or horror, and it suits older teenagers and adults; it is not for younger children.

**How does I Will Find You compare to The Fugitive?**

*I Will Find You* and [*The Fugitive*](https://film.one/film/the-fugitive) both follow a wrongly convicted man over the wall with the law behind him, and the film is the better of the two by some distance. Andrew Davis tells the story once and properly, with Tommy Lee Jones as the pursuer; the series stretches the same idea over eight episodes and buries it under reveals.

**Is I Will Find You based on a true story or a book?**

*I Will Find You* is based on the novel of the same name by Harlan Coben, not on a true story. Robert Hull's eight-part adaptation keeps Coben's habit of ending every chapter on a door slamming, and you need no knowledge of the book to follow it, or to see where the plot gives way.

**What should I watch after I Will Find You?**

After *I Will Find You*, try [*The Fugitive*](https://film.one/film/the-fugitive) (1993, Fi1m 88): The wrongly convicted man on the run, done once and properly, with Tommy Lee Jones chasing. Then [*Prisoners*](https://film.one/film/prisoners) (2013, Fi1m 81): Two missing girls, one desperate parent, and a mystery that earns every one of its turns.

### Reviews we read (12)

- **Variety**, Aramide Tinubu (85/100, inferred): The critic says it knocks it out of the park as another wild and fun Harlan Coben crime thriller, a gripping immersive tale of parental love, loss and obsession. They single out the dizzying, captivating experience with twists that keep viewers focused on the obvious while intricate elements unfold. [Read](https://variety.com/2026/tv/reviews/i-will-find-you-review-netflix-1236783874/)
- **Radio Times**, Jack Seale (4/5): The critic calls it a fast-paced, throwaway conspiracy thriller that knows exactly what it is and moves briskly enough to keep viewers hooked despite the silliness. They single out the bickering FBI partners Chi McBride and Logan Browning as the standout MVPs who could anchor a spin-off. [Read](https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/i-will-find-you-harlan-coben-review/)
- **The i Paper**, Emily Baker (76/100, inferred): The critic finds the series silly and unbelievable with breakneck twists that strain credibility, but praises its zippy, moreish addictive quality and strong action set pieces as perfect undemanding summer viewing. They single out the sincere performances of Sam Worthington and Britt Lower for making the nonsense watchable. [Read](https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/harlan-cobens-i-will-find-you-awful-watching-4478436)
- **The Guardian** (67/100, inferred): The critic calls it classic small-screen Harlan Coben: maddeningly watchable crap with bells on. The script is made of Play-Doh and the protagonists are flaps of luncheon meat, yet the reviewer keeps watching to the end despite the red herrings, plot holes and preposterous twists. [Read](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jun/17/i-will-find-you-review-harlen-coben-britt-lower-netflix)
- **The Telegraph**, Anita Singh (3/5): The critic finds it rubbish yet addictive, a formulaic and preposterous Netflix thriller full of cliffhangers, rug pulls and the stupidest plot reveal in living memory. Worthington is the right action-hero lead and the red herrings keep viewers hooked through all eight episodes. [Read](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/harlan-coben-i-will-find-you-netflix-review/)
- **IndieWire**, Ben Travers (56/100, inferred): The critic finds the series so bad it's almost good, calling it an absurd conspiracy thriller with an over-the-top plot that stretches credulity. They single out the ludicrous conspiracy and contrived developments as the main elements highlighted for complaint. [Read](https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/shows/i-will-find-you-review-netflix-harlan-coben-series-bad-1235200485/)
- **The Hollywood Reporter**, Daniel Fienberg (55/100, inferred): The critic describes it as a disposable, wheel-spinning pulpy thriller built for distracted viewing, with repetition and illogical resolutions but generally watchable thanks to a top-notch cast. They single out the bickering law enforcement procedural subplot featuring Chi McBride and Logan Browning as the best element. [Read](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/i-will-find-you-review-sam-worthington-netflix-harlan-coben-1236624294/)
- **The AV Club**, Saloni Gajjar (C-): The critic calls the show ridiculous and designed for second-screen viewing, with contrived plotting, one-dimensional characters, and stiff performances that make it an inorganic mess. They single out the silly twists, exposition-heavy dialogue, and lack of emotional depth as key complaints. [Read](https://www.avclub.com/i-will-find-you-review-netflix-harlan-coben)
- **The Independent**, Adam White (30/100, inferred): The critic calls it irredeemably awful, an overcranked feast of absolute nonsense with ludicrous twists, DNA swapping, Swiss orphans and mad accents that turns the brain to soup. It is also completely irresistible in its bombardment of plot and thinly sketched characters. [Read](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/i-will-find-you-netflix-review-harlan-coben-b2997625.html)
- **Collider**, Taylor Gates (70/100, inferred): The review finds the series doesn't break the mold but will still satisfy fans of Harlan Coben adaptations, praising its straightforward suspenseful style, solid twists that pay off logically, and strong cast chemistry while noting some pacing and generic character issues. They single out the well-executed twists and cliffhangers that feel satisfying without cheap tricks as a highlight. [Read](https://collider.com/i-will-find-you-review-netflix-harlan-coben/)
- **Digital Spy**, Janet A Leigh (42/100, inferred): The critic argues the series proves Coben has gone too far with twists, delivering a flat, skippable watch with clunky exposition, awkward chemistry, and clichés that undermine tension. They single out the over-extended twists and lack of finesse in the narrative as the main complaints. [Read](https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a71613923/harlan-coben-i-will-find-you-netflix-review/)
- **NME**, Vicky Jessop (40/100, inferred): The critic calls the latest Harlan Coben adaptation more of the ludicrous same, with a mountain of plot holes and a rollicking but silly pace that works best if viewers switch their brains off. They single out the fast pace that helps overlook the implausibilities as the main element keeping it watchable. [Read](https://www.nme.com/reviews/tv-reviews/i-will-find-you-review-plot-britt-lower-sam-worthington-harlan-coben-3951662)

## Details

- **Created by:** Robert Hull
- **Creator:** Robert Hull
- **Director:** Adam Davidson, Brad Anderson, Maggie Kiley, Maja Vrvilo
- **Writer:** Robert Hull, Bryan Wynbrandt, Steven Lilien, Heather Mitchell
- **Novel:** Harlan Coben
- **Cinematography:** Fraser Brown, Boris Mojsovski
- **Editor:** Benjamin J. Bumgarner, Jeff Israel, Harry B. Miller III, Olivia Eliseo
- **Music:** Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans
- **Production design:** Mark Steel
- **Costume design:** Natalie Bronfman
- **Cast:** Sam Worthington as David Burroughs; Britt Lower as Rachel Mills; Chi McBride as Max Williams; Logan Browning as Sarah Greer; Erin Richards as Cheryl Dreason; Jonathan Tucker as Adam Mackenzie; Milo Ventimiglia as Hayden Payne; Kate Vernon as Sophie Burroughs
- **Certificate (ICAA):** 16
- **Release (Spain):** 18 June 2026
- **Genres:** Drama, Mystery, Crime
- **Trailer:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mObRUsA7dPY

## Where to watch in Spain

- Netflix: streaming

*Checked 2026-09-23.*

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## If you liked this

- *The Fugitive* (1993), Fi1m 88: The wrongly convicted man on the run, done once and properly, with Tommy Lee Jones chasing. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/the-fugitive.md)
- *The Missing* (2014): A father who will not stop looking for his son, played slowly and for keeps.
- *Prisoners* (2013), Fi1m 81: Two missing girls, one desperate parent, and a mystery that earns every one of its turns. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/prisoners.md)
- *Fool Me Once* (2024): Coben done with a straighter face; the twists are just as daft but better hidden.
- *Changeling* (2008): A mother is handed a boy and told he is hers; Eastwood lets the horror build quietly.

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