New year, new Netflix mystery series. 2026 starts off with a bang, courtesy of Run Away, a thriller adapted from Harlan Coben's novel of the same name. Coben, who is also the mind behind Netflix hits Fool Me Once and The Stranger, is known for his dark mysteries and wild twists, and Run Away promises to be no different.
The show stars James Nesbitt as Simon Greene, a man who, on the surface, has the perfect life with his loving wife and their three children. But when his daughter Paige (Ellie de Lange) develops an addiction to drugs and runs away, that perfect facade begins to crack. After he spots Paige in a park, looking disheveled and presumably under the spell of a controlling boyfriend, Simon begins investigating the violent underworld that has captured his daughter. If he wants to save his daughter and his family, Simon will have to look outside the lines and face his own dark past.
