![]() ![]() As the drama gains momentum over its first two episodes, Amanda Abbington (“Sherlock”) is excellent as a local detective with her own domestic problems, and Marc Warren is terrific as Tom’s wary, acerbic best friend. It’s a highly watchable, semi-pulpy serial loaded with reveals, clues and cliffhangers, and the core cast is generally quite good. But overall, it tends to avoid the sloppy, meandering tendencies of its more prestige-driven TV brethren. “Safe” takes itself a bit too seriously now and then - portentous music cues occasionally crop up in ways that play up the show’s pompous tendencies. ![]() But things begin spinning out of control when a crime occurs, and a resident goes missing. Adults and teens in the community are all hiding secrets, and on the whole, the teens are better at covering their tracks than the grown-ups. In a leafy, safety-conscious subdivision, grieving widower Tom (Hall) is raising two daughters, one of whom is a teenager and increasingly estranged from her dad. It’s essentially a propulsive nighttime soap opera littered with crimes, well-appointed kitchens, and surveillance cameras everywhere. But in its first two episodes, it delivers on what it promises in its taut opening scenes: It’s a slick portrait of one man’s descent into a nightmare, one that threatens to damage the fragile connections within several families. The good news is “Safe” is a plot-driven drama that doesn’t rely all that much on extensive conversation, and what dialogue it does have is workmanlike at best. Harlan will come up with an initial concept and then we will collaborate to expand and deepen the story across numerous hours.Hall’s attempt at an English accent is reasonably successful, even if it sounds a bit forced at times. So we always try to emulate his novel style in the TV work. Indeed, Brocklehurst told the Sunday Express, " readers have certain expectations of him: twists, brilliant hooks, characterful. "I also found my jaw dropping probably three times reading through the first episode with the surprises of it.” This, coming from an actor who played a serial killer with a conscience, is very promising. "I was immediately drawn in, I had a sense of the character’s complexity," Hall told Varietyof the script. As for Safe's script, per Variety, Coben co-wrote it with Danny Brocklehurst, a British screenwriter most known for his work on The Driver, a 2014 miniseries, and The Five, a 2016 television show also created by Coben. There was action every minute, and so much momentum carrying the story forward that until I finished it, I was in a sort of twitchy agony if I got stuck doing anything else."Ĭharley Gallay/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty ImagesĪn author who leaves his/her readers in "twitchy agony" definitely sounds like someone Netflix would tap to create an addictive crime show. It made reading feel kind of like watching a movie, or even a basketball game when one is deeply invested in the outcome. ![]() Of Coben's writing, The Atlantic's Eric Konigsberg said: "Even though I’d never been a big reader of mysteries or thrillers, with Coben I had to know how each book was going to end, and I relished getting there. Per the writer's website, he has written 30 books, which have been published in 43 languages. For the uninitiated, Coben is a best-selling author of novels like Fool Me Once, Tell No One, and his Myron Bolitar series - otherwise known as those crime paperbacks you buy in the airport and devour in a day. While there's no indication that the show is based on a real disappearance or real characters, the fact that it was created by Harlan Coben implies that it's fictional. With such an intriguing (and realistic) plot, is Netflix's Safe based on a true story? What's so shocking is that Tom thought his gated community was, well, safe. Tom is raising two teenage daughters on his own, when one of them goes missing after a party. His new Netflix drama, Safe, premieres Thursday, May 10, and its eight episodes center around a pediatric surgeon named Tom (Hall) whose wife Rachel died a year prior. Hall is finally returning to TV in a starring role. ![]()
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