From writing two episodes of Harlan Coben 's Stay Close to now writing all five episodes of Missing You , Victoria Asare-Archer describes the anticipation building up to the release of the new Netflix series as "exciting but terrifying". For the past few years now, a new thriller based on one of Coben's bestselling novels has landed on the global streamer, nursing New Year's Day hangovers and setting social media alight with theories and meme-worthy reactions. This time round, Missing You is five episodes long and has been brought to life for the screen by Asare-Archer, who also serves as an executive producer on the series.
"It was just such an interesting opportunity to take a Black actress and put her in a centre of a series where she is the centre of this series," Asare-Archer says as we sit down for a chat ahead of the release of Missing You. Centring on Kat Donovan (Rosalind Eleazar) , we follow the detective as she stumbles across a dating app profile of her ex-fiancé Josh (Ashley Walters), which also sets into motion the search for answers around her father's death. In typical Coben series fashion, there are plenty of twists, characters and lingering glances that'll leave viewers guessing till the show's very last moments, but Asare-Archer admits that some of the difficulty of bringing Missing You to life was focusing it on Kat.
"This was the first one that's about one person really ploughing through a story. That was just a really unique opportunity – to take a B.