I Will Find You is a crime thriller built around a single, propulsive setup: David Burroughs, played by Sam Worthington, is serving a life sentence for the murder of his young son when he receives word the boy may still be alive.
The eight-episode miniseries follows his unauthorized search for the truth, pulling in a detective and a journalist as separate threads converge on the same mystery. Expect the mood of a paranoid, plot-driven procedural rather than a slow-burn character study.
The series is created and showrun by Robert Hull, who adapted it from Harlan Coben's 2023 novel of the same name, with Coben serving as executive producer. Coben's other Netflix adaptations, including The Stranger and Fool Me Once, follow a similar formula of ordinary people dragged into conspiracies with personal stakes. The cast beyond Worthington includes Britt Lower, Milo Ventimiglia and Erin Richards, with Ventimiglia bringing an unexpectedly warm, sympathetic turn.
One structural quirk is worth knowing going in: the story effectively runs as three loosely connected shows in one, splitting time between the prison-set plotline, a police investigation, and a journalist chasing the same story from outside. The result is clue-heavy to the point of repetition, and the tonal register shifts between earnest drama and darker comedy depending on which thread is on screen.
I Will Find You is streaming now on Netflix, with all eight episodes available at once, so it works either as a single-sitting binge or spread across several nights without losing the thread. Its multi-strand structure means checking a phone mid-episode is less costly than it would be in a series that leans on a single ticking clock.
