‘Run Away’ Is a great Harlan Coban adaptation on Netflix. Picture: Supplied Watching a Harlan Coben screen adaptation on Netflix can be a bit like chewing gum that loses its flavour quickly. There have been hits, near misses and yawns over the past few years.ButRun Away, released on 1 January, wipes the slate clean because it’s a great limited series and binge-worthyanytime.
ButRun Away, released on 1 January, wipes the slate clean because it’s a great limited series and binge-worthy Run Away, based on Coben’s 2019 book of the same name, starts by telling the story of the Greene family. James Nesbitt plays dad Simon, and Minnie Driver plays mom Ingrid. Daughter Paige is an addict, missing, and moving in the wrong circles.
Simon is on a mission to find and save his daughter. But in between, plots and sub-plots unravel at the pace of fighter jets. Within hours, he is being publicly framed as a violent man who beat a homeless person senseless.
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Not long after, Aaron is found stabbed to death, and the story pivots as the desperate dad becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation. That’s the first part. Together with Driver, who should have had a far less subdued role in the film, the Greenes start investigating their daughter’s disappearance.
The pair breaks a few rules along the way. They meet Cornelius, a council flat neighbour of Paige and her boyfriend’s, who had been offering the young woman refuge from Aaron’s violence, and through him, Simon and Ingrid are drawn into the drug underworld to seek out information. A basement shootout relegates Ingrid, aka Driver, to a hospital bed coma for much of the series.
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