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Run Away

James Nesbitt and Minnie Driver in Run Away.

Run Away is about family. It’s about “what we will do to keep our family intact, what secrets we keep within our family, and what secrets we keep as a family,” says Harlan Coben, the author of the novel on which the eight-part Netflix series is based. “Every time you walk past a house, there’s a whole universe going on behind that door, and none of us have a clue what it is.” In this particular universe, the house belongs to Simon (James Nesbitt), whose white-picket-fence life collapses when his eldest daughter, Paige (Ellie de Lange), runs away. He later finds her living rough in a city park, a drug addict, yet what seems like a devastating end instead triggers a chain of shocking events that pull Simon into a dangerous underworld. The question at the heart of the series is laid out in its tagline: How far would you go to bring her back? —Elena Clavarino

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