The eight-episode mystery thriller is a gripping and immersive tale about the depths of parental love, the anguish of loss and the lengths people will go to in order to get the lives they believe they are owed.

When you sign up to watch a Coben adaptation, you know you're going to be sucked into a fast-moving story that grabs you with tentacles of twists and turns until you finish all the episodes as fast as you can (eight compelling installments in this case). "Find You" meets all those expectations and adds a little extra something with such a stellar cast.

I Will Find You is a Harlan Coben thriller through and through, replete with all the usual nonsense and plot holes big enough to fall through, but the typical binge-ready formula remains inescapably watchable.

I Will Find You is classic small-screen Coben, which is to say: maddeningly watchable crap with bells on.

As an eight-and-done go-go-go thriller, “I Will Find You” certainly passes the time; it’ll be a decent-enough weekend binge for plenty of Netflix subscribers. As the seemingly intended meditation on what parents will do for their children, it’s too slickly, generically amped up to have much real-world resonance.

Somehow, the show takes itself too seriously and not seriously enough, leaving it an inorganic mess that not even its cast can elevate.

“I Will Find You” forgets to be fun. It’s just dumb.