Created by Harlan Coben (the crime novelist-turned-showrunner behind many streaming mysteries), Safe is a fast-paced thriller following a widower in search of his missing daughter. The more he digs, the more he realizes that his town is anything but small and sleepy, and that he can’t trust the people closest to him. It’s the sort of show that involves multiple people and plotlines, which could easily go south if it fell into the wrong hands, but Safe manages to make it all work. It doesn’t require you to care deeply about these characters, but it does pull you in with its shocking secrets and (at times frustrating) cliffhangers. Sure, it can get soapy at times, but it’s never not entertaining. And though it revisits the night of the disappearance often, it always features a new angle and point of view, making it feel fresh every single time.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Actor: Amanda Abbington, Audrey Fleurot, Emmett Scanlan, Ewen Leslie, Hannah Arterton, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Joel Jackson, Laila Rouass, Leeanna Walsman, Marc Warren, Michael C. Hall, Nigel Lindsay, Phoebe Tonkin
Director: Daniel Nettheim, Julia Ford
Rating: N/A, TV-MA
