Stay Close (Season 1)

Stay Close (2021) is a British crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM — a Netflix limited series adapted from Harlan Coben's novel by directors Lindy Heymann and Daniel O'Hara, starring Cush Jumbo, Richard Armitage, James Nesbitt, Sarah Parish, and Eddie Izzard.

Seventeen years after a man named Stewart Green vanished without a trace, another man disappears on the same date. The coincidence drags three people back into the light: Megan, a photographer who buried her past so thoroughly she almost believes the new version of herself; her fiancé Dave, who doesn't know the half of it; and Ray Castelli, a former press photographer still haunted by what he saw the night Green went missing. Detectives Broome and Shora — played by Nesbitt and Izzard in a pairing that's funnier and more threatening than it has any right to be — start pulling threads.

Coben's construction here is tight: every character is hiding something, and the reveals land harder because the series takes its time earning them. Eight episodes, no filler. Stream Stay Close (2021) online on iFILM.