The thirteenth Harlan Coben adaptation, I Will Find You, delivers familiar comfort-thriller pleasures: rotating suspects, relentless shock value, and a structure that rewards watching it straight through like a single, sprawling film. Once you’ve cleared your Coben queue, Netflix offers fresh suspense in The Bombing of Pan Am 103, a Lockerbie drama criticized yet grounded in gripping real events.
The thirteenth instalment of Harlan Coben’s adapted show, I Will Find You, has left us with a bitter case of comfort-TV hangover. It’s not the finest thriller you’ll watch. Like most Coben adaptations, its real currency is shock value, a rotating cast of suspects designed to keep you guessing. But as long as they get you watching through with no breaks, it makes the cut. The trick is to watch it like one very long movie. Long enough to justify spending an entire weekend indoors, but not so long that it eats into your week. In this economy, that's just as valuable as a nine-season comfort rewatch.
If you've already burned through your Coben backlog, here are five new thrillers (with some releasing in the next few days), to look forward to next.
Steve Coogan gave comedy a break with this six-part true-crime thriller about untrained British Customs officers sent undercover to infiltrate 1990s drug gangs. It's Thatcher-era London and Liverpool, rave culture and assumed identities, ordinary civil servants slowly losing track of where their real selves end. It's being talked about as one of the sharper crime dramas Netflix has put out this year, the kind of tightly-plotted thriller that deserves its comparisons.
Release date: May 7
Netflix's first collaboration with Toho reboots the studio's 1960 tokusatsu classic as an eight-episode anti-establishment sci-fi crime thriller, and it's less a monster movie than a slow-burn conspiracy shot through with body horror. A man who can dissolve into gas murders a professor live on TV and vows to take down a shadowy organisation next. It's working with a detective, his journalist ex, and twenty-seven years of buried secrets. It's a big, handsome production with real genre pedigree behind it.
Release date: July 2
A Spanish psychological thriller from the writers of Elite, about a woman who returns home after her mother's mysterious death, only to find her father spiralling into conspiracy-theory paranoia, and possibly into guilt. If you like your thrillers claustrophobic rather than explosive, this one's for you.
Release date: July 24
Leaving the last one out to be a bit of an unconventional pick for this list for this Chinese daily-drop drama, which we can now conveniently binge on Netflix. Light to the Night is a multi-timeline mystery spanning nearly two decades, starting with a father-daughter disappearance in 1997, investigated by a mismatched detective duo whose work leaves lasting scars. Eighteen years later, one of their daughters joins the force and reopens the case that broke her father.
Release date: July 25
Starring Suits' Patrick J. Adams and Emmy winner Merritt Wever, the dramatisation of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has already drawn its share of flak, with early reviews accusing it of leaning too hard into reverence and an inability to build tension. Whether the Netflix run manages to correct course remains to be seen, but the source material is rooted in jurisdictional turf wars, an FBI–Scottish police stand-off, a staggering true story—all of which have more than enough thriller bones to work with
Release date: July 30