Stay Close
Season 1 Premiere:
Dec 31, 2021
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51
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5.4
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Jan 3, 2022
80
Stay Close benefits from fine performances and a story that gives just enough clues in the first episode to keep viewers intrigued and — more importantly — not frustrated with purposely obtuse writing.
Jan 3, 2022
60
It is, I must admit, quite entertaining. If you can swallow the clichés and the cheesy, conspicuous score, you might actually end up caring what happens to Megan. And whether Izzard perks up enough to get any lines.
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Mixed or Average
5.4
44% Positive
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28% Mixed
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Jan 31, 2022
7
Stay Close is a British mystery/drama series based on the Harlan Coben novel of the same title. I was interested in this because Cush Jumbo had the lead role. I've enjoyed her acting - and, she does an excellent job here. There were lots of good actors in this series and it really makes it worth watching.
The casting of Hyoie O'Grady and Poppy Gilbert as psychopaths Ken-&-Barbie was brilliant and was an extra interesting dimension to the delivery.
Mar 9, 2022
6
lubię seriale, filmy oparte na ksiażkach harlana... ten też jest niezły... oglądnąłem ciągiem ,jedynie 8 odcinków.
Jan 3, 2022
60
Stay Close promises more of almost exactly the same – including Richard Armitage, who is now seedy photographer Ray and, by the end of the opening episode, about to become firmly tied into the main plot.
Jan 3, 2022
50
“Stay Close” builds its puzzle slowly, through subliminal editing of past violence and through the silences in what the characters don’t say to each other — empty spaces that invite us to imagine what happened to these people all those years ago.
Jan 3, 2022
40
Nesbitt can’t decide whether to take this seriously or not. ... If you’re after a mindless bingeathon – and there’s no shame in that, after the year we’ve just had – then watch away. Just don’t expect it to make any sense.
Jan 3, 2022
40
The characters feel more like plot devices than people who could really exist, with Stay Close seeing them go through the motions to gradually reveal the secret behind a paint-by-numbers mystery story. The whole thing ends with an obligatory twist, which to be fair I didn’t see coming, but it’s hardly worth the eight hours of tedium it takes to get there.
Jan 3, 2022
33
There is some sense of satisfaction to be derived from the last two episodes as it clunkily solves its many mysteries, even if it’s of a self-congratulatory nature for making it that far into the series. But it takes a laborious path to get there, and by the time the gift is fully unwrapped, in a lengthy, exposition-heavy confession, the surprise is, if not anticlimactic, then just plain silly.
