Netflix’s 8-Year Mystery Thriller Franchise Is So Good, It Already Has 13 Shows
Even the biggest fans of psychological thrillers might not know that Netflix secretly has a 13-show franchise based on the works of one of the genre’s most iconic authors. Every streaming service has a genre that it tries to excel in, as evidenced by HBO’s huge Game of Thrones franchise and its upcoming Harry Potter reboot series. The cable network is willing to pour a lot of money into this retelling of the famous fantasy books, since fantasy as a genre has historically performed well for it. Similarly, between Apple TV’s acclaimed Foundation, the upcoming William Gibson adaptation Neuromancer, Silo, Severance, For All Mankind and its spinoff Star City, it is fair to say that Apple TV is mostly focused on producing high-quality, original sci-fi right now. The streaming service has other offerings, like the crime drama Your Friends and Neighbors, but the genre that it hopes to corner was clearly chosen a few years ago and its current high-profile output reflects this. Similarly, even though Prime Video’s The Girlfriend and 56 Days put up a commendable fight, Netflix has proven over the last decade that the streaming service is home to great psychological thriller shows. From the five-season masterpiece You to the recent Alice Feeney adaptation His & Hers, from the iconic Mindhunter to the campier The Hunting Wives, Netflix is the home of psychological thrillers on streaming. As such, it could shock some fans of the genre to learn that Netflix has a secret 13-show thriller franchise, which recently added I Will Find You to its roster.
Netflix’s Harlan Coben Adaptations Are Technically The Streaming Service’s Biggest Franchise
Sam Worthington as David Burroughs in Episode #102 of I Will Find YouNetflix
Starting way back in 2018 with the C8 co-production Safe and running up to January 2026’s Run Away and June’s I Will Find You, Netflix has 13 adaptations of prolific author Harlan Coben’s twisty, propulsive thrillers on the streaming service. Based on the 2023 novel of the same name, I Will Find You stars Sam Worthington as a father serving a life sentence for supposedly murdering his own son, who finds out that his child could secretly still be alive.
Harlan Coben’s Netflix TV Shows
Release Date
Episodes
Rotten Tomatoes Score
Safe
May 2018
8
71%
The Stranger
January 2020
8
87%
The Woods
June 2020
6
89%
The Innocent
April 2021
8
100%
Gone For Good
August 2021
5
34%*
Stay Close
December 2021
8
92%
Hold Tight
April 2022
6
39%*
Fool Me Once
January 2024
8
69%
Missing You
January 2025
5
50%
Run Away
January 2026
8
41%
I Will Find You
June 2026
8
65%
With a strong supporting cast including Britt Lower, Milo Ventimiglia, Madeleine Stowe, and Erin Richards, I Will Find You is a typically twisty, unpredictable effort from the author. With a Rotten Tomatoes score of only 65% from critics and 60% from audiences, the show isn’t the most critically acclaimed Harlan Coben miniseries on Netflix, but it also isn’t his least successful outing.
How Netflix Can Release So Many Harlan Coben Adaptations
Ruth Jones as Elena Ravenscroft in Run Away
In 2018, Coben signed a multi-million dollar deal with Netflix that committed the author to 14 TV show adaptations on the streaming service. This gigantic deal allowed Netflix to produce a deluge of content based on the writer’s work, although Netflix’s Harlan Coben shows weren’t all met with critical success. 2025’s Just One Look earned a woeful Rotten Tomatoes audience score of 31%, although its critical score was a far superior 85%.
The mixed reception of Netflix’s Coben adaptations has never slowed down the streaming service when it comes to bringing the author’s work to life onscreen, and this is understandable considering how popular the writer’s twisty thrillers have consistently proven. Despite often earning low audience ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, almost all of Coben’s adaptations to date have topped the most-viewed charts on the week of their release.
In one particularly impressive instance, 2026’s Run Away managed to dethrone Stranger Things season 5, arguably Netflix’s biggest release of all time, when the miniseries arrived. Admittedly, the hype, both positive and negative, around the final season of Stranger Things had largely died down by the time Run Away premiered. However, the fact that Netflix’s Harlan Coben adaptation proved so irresistible to viewers, much like I Will Find You’s number one position on Netflix’s current streaming chart, highlights the consistent popularity of his adaptations.
Release Date
June 18, 2026
Network
Netflix
Showrunner
Robert Hull
Directors
Adam Davidson, Maggie Kiley, Maja Vrvilo, Brad Anderson
Writers
Robert Hull, Harlan Coben
Diterbitkan : 2026-06-22 22:01:00
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