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Staying Close: Stopping the Natural Drift Toward Isolation in Marriage

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Megan Pierce is an ordinary soccer mom with an interesting past - one where she had to change her name to escape. Ray, her former love, is also muddling through life as a photographer, pining over the one that got away. And then there is a police detective (who seems to have a lot of free time to hang out with various ladies) who is committed to solving a crime from long ago. Megan (played by Cush Jumbo) a working mother of three, Ray (Richard Armitage), a once-promising documentary photographer, Broome (James Nesbitt) a detective unable to let go of a missing person’s cold case, and Lorraine (Sarah Parish), an old friend of Megan's. Did I guess who the serial killer was? Yes, about three quarters of the way through but I did keep reading to the end anyway just to make sure I was right and also to get one or two things straight in my mind which just were not making any sense to me. These little niggles were ironed out in the epilogue but I have to say that something just still did not seem right, it all felt just a little tenuous to me.

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Eventually, using informaton provided by Megan, Ray, and others, the police are able to figure out what's going on, but the solution is not satisfying or believable. Moreover, it was difficult (for me) to reconcile what happened to Green with the very profound changes in the lives of the main characters. Green was an abusive and unpleasant guy and it seemed to me that everyone was better off with him gone. Dave's stag night turns testy thanks to an uninvited guest. Ken and Barbie turn their focus on Megan's family. Lorraine mourns the loss of a friend.Franchise History: Erin appears in the series and the book, but she’s called Erin Anderson in the novel. Details in the minutia paint a more complete picture that brings us closer to the characters. When we’re closer, we care more. Despite the fact that this story is populated with lower-class people who fought or forged their way out of the strip clubs and seedy side, we care about them and want them to succeed. (Wouldn’t it be great if real life were like that? Where we actually cared about losers? Yeah. Well.) Shenton, Zoe (12 October 2021). "Stay Close on Netflix: Cast, release date and everything you need to know". Cosmopolitan. Archived from the original on 1 December 2021 . Retrieved 1 December 2021.

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The main cast were revealed to be Cush Jumbo, James Nesbitt, Richard Armitage and Sarah Parish. [8] [9] In February 2021, Netflix announced that several new people would be joining the cast, including Eddie Izzard, Andi Osho, Daniel Francis, Jo Joyner, Bethany Antonia and Rachel Andrews. [4] Filming [ edit ] Fletcher, Alex (4 February 2021). "If you liked Harlan Coben's The Stranger, you will love Stay Close". BT TV. Archived from the original on 28 February 2021 . Retrieved 28 February 2021. In a nutshell, this is an enthralling yet entertaining crime thriller that will better be enjoyed by general readers instead of the dedicated fans of the crime fiction genre. worked in the travel industry. He now lives in New Jersey with his wife, Anne Armstrong-Coben MD, a pediatrician, and their four children.Ray Levine is a photographer. He used to be very successful in that career but for the past seventeen years he’s been haunted by visions of blood, too much blood, and incapable to keep himself together enough to do more than sleazy and cheap assignments. The story of Stay Close, which is about the lives of three seemingly ordinary people being disturbed by a terrible past event, was originally set in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

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Are you watching Stay Close? The latest series to be adapted from Harlan Coben's addictive novel is now on Netflix and fans are bingeing to their hearts content. As well as a classic and gripping storyline, the new thriller boasts an impressive cast of very recognisable faces. A bit cornier than Harlan Coben's first three books I've read. Maybe it's because of the seedy personalities of the characters or maybe it's the cliche-ish descriptions and yet it's still very entertaining and yet again, I just couldn't stop reading. I now call it the “Coben Effect”. Wood, Tom (6 March 2021). "New Harlan Coben Adaptation The Innocent Will Hit Netflix On 30 April". LADBible. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021 . Retrieved 7 March 2021.

Secondly, If you think you know who did it like 1/4 of the way in, you're right but the author adds an extra cup of cheesy pathos to the motive that undermines the only thing that was even mildly interesting about the killer. Fourteen of author Harlan Coben’s 31 novels, we are told, are due to be adapted for Netflix. Your mileage may vary, of course, but as I have a barely satiable appetite for bingeable thrillers, I see this as more promise than threat. Grater, Tom (28 October 2020). "Cush Jumbo, James Nesbitt & Richard Armitage To Star In Harlan Coben Adaptation 'Stay Close' For Netflix & 'The Stranger' Producer Red". Deadline. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020 . Retrieved 28 February 2021.

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a b "NEW HARLAN COBEN DRAMA CONFIRMED FOR NETFLIX STARRING CUSH JUMBO, JAMES NESBITT AND RICHARD ARMITAGE". About Netflix. 28 October 2020. Archived from the original on 2 December 2020 . Retrieved 28 February 2021. When it appears that this may be more than just a case of two missing men, when the death-toll rises and the solution appears no clearer than it was in the past, lives, sanity and happiness may fall victim to a very clever and manipulative mind.

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The person stalking Megan throughout Stay Close’s present timeline isn’t Stewart, although certain breadcrumbs attempt to convince viewers that it’s him. Rather, the stalker is Rudy, one of Stewart’s business associates. Rudy believes Megan had stolen Stewart’s fortune — which partially belonged to Rudy, which nobody besides Rudy knows about. Megan reveals that she took some of Stewart’s money but gave the rest of it to Stewart’s widow, Sarah (Belinda Stewart-Wilson). Three people living lives they never wanted, hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect, will find that the past doesn’t recede. Even as the terrible consequences of long-ago events crash together in the present and threaten to ruin lives, they will come to the startling realization that they may not want to forget the past at all. And as each confronts the dark side of the American Dream—the boredom of a nice suburban life, the excitement of temptation, the desperation and hunger that can lurk behind even the prettiest facades—they will discover the hard truth that the line between one kind of life and another can be as whisper-thin as a heartbeat. Anyway, the story doesn't need to be summarized, as that is done so well already. My points are simply that the story is formulaic to the extreme, the characters are bland and unbelievable (Coben likes to bring in former prostitutes and strippers who yearn for the "good old days"?!?), and the setting is so bleak and blah I just want to forget all about it. The Woods, which came out in 2020, and 2021's The Innocent, are set in Poland and Spain respectively. Harlan Coben has long been one of my favourite authors. I may not have read every single one of his books, but I haven’t missed many of them because he writes damn good thrillers.

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