One of the BBC’s best crime dramas, The Missing, is leaving Netflix soon.
The gripping crime mystery’s first eight-part series debuted in 2014 and followed the search for a missing boy in France, with Tchéky Karyo as lead detective Julien Baptiste and James Nesbitt and Frances O’Connor as the boy’s distraught parents.
A second series followed in 2016, this time about a missing girl in Germany, with Karyo returning alongside David Morrissey and Keeley Hawes as the child’s parents.
The first series and Nesbitt’s performance as grieving father Tony Hughes was particularly praised, along with Karyo’s captivating run as the detective, leading to spin-off series Baptiste arriving on the BBC in 2019.
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But, if you want to watch (or re-watch) the series that started it all, you haven’t got long – The Missing leaves Netflix on April 12.
The Missing was well-received by both viewers and critics alike, with the show getting a 93% approval rating from critics and a 90% rating from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes.
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But despite the show’s rave reviews, it was never renewed for series three, with the show’s writers Harry and Jack Williams later explaining that they didn’t want to keep doing similar storylines.
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"But we really didn't want to repeat ourselves," Jack told Digital Spy. "We had a few ideas [for a third series], and sometimes we got a little way down the line with some of them. But none of them really stuck."
Harry also explained how the main premise of the show – detective Baptiste trying to solve a missing child case from the past – was a difficult one to keep replicating: "How many times can you do it before he just looks like a terrible detective?"
Jack continued: "We realised that [The] Missing 3 and Julien Baptiste were incompatible. That was a bit of a sad revelation."
The Missing is available on Netflix until April 12.
