The missing
What: Season 2 of the anthology mystery, starring Tchéky Karyo, Keeley Hawes, David Morrissey, Laura Fraser.
When: 8 p.m. Sunday.
Where: Starz.
What: Season 2 of the anthology mystery, starring Tchéky Karyo, Keeley Hawes, David Morrissey, Laura Fraser.
When: 8 p.m. Sunday.
Where: Starz.
Intense and addicting is the best way to describe “The Missing,” the anthology mystery series on Starz.
The second eight-part season is a whole new story, though it features the same French detective from the first year, Julian Baptiste (Tchéky Karyo). In the first season, he had searched for a boy who went missing while on vacation in France.
This time, two young girls had been abducted near a British military base in the forest outside of a German village. Eleven years later, one of them, Alice (a young woman now played by Abigail Hardingham), walks back into to the village, but is too weak to remember much clearly.
Though weak, she says enough so authorities know she has been held captive and sexually molested and shows indications she may have been pregnant. So Baptiste is called because he had searched for the other young girl who was abducted.
Meanwhile, Alice’s parents — army captain Sam (David Morrissey) and teacher Gemma (Keeley Hawes) — seem uncomfortable with her return and have things to hide. Others on the base, like military police sergeant Eve (Laura Fraser) and her commanding father, Adrian (Roger Allam), may have their own ties to the case.
Baptiste couldn’t solve the first case and has never let it go. Karyo, a terrific presence, is the lynchpin for the series as he doggedly pursues the truth. Soon other suspicions arise in the case, and once you go down “Missing’s” rabbit hole, it’s hard not to follow the twists of the mystery. The series, which drew big ratings in Britain, occasionally falters but pays off in the end.
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