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Missing (2012)

Well-done, but suffers from an overwhelming feeling of deja vu

[6/10 · 29 August 2015]

This spy series has some things going for it: good cast (Ashley Judd is equally adept at action and drama), European locations (much of it is actually shot on those locations), some shocking plot twists (though the fact that Paul is alive is not one of them; you don't hire Sean Bean to have him killed five minutes into the pilot episode) and well-hidden villains. On the other hand, it's a very clichéd show; there is very little here that hasn't already been done before, and better. "Alias" came out a decade earlier, and although it "faked" its locations unlike "Missing", its action scenes were more exciting. Also, 10 episodes may be too many for a show that is based on a single, simple premise (son goes missing; mom tries to find him), without any significant subplots except for her back-from-the-dead husband. It's a take-it-or-leave-it show; it's watchable, but not terribly compelling. **1/2 out of 4.