{"id":186385,"date":"2025-11-18T03:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/186385\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T03:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:02:10","slug":"outstanding-mystery-drama-centred-on-fbi-agent-tracking-a-killer-is-trending-on-netflix-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/186385\/","title":{"rendered":"“Outstanding” mystery drama centred on FBI agent tracking a killer is trending on Netflix right now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Absentia, the “outstanding” mystery drama centred on an FBI agent tracking a killer, is trending on Netflix<\/a> right now. Directed by Oded Ruskin, the series stars Stana Katic, Patrick Heusinger, Cara Theobold and Matthew Le Nevez. First released on Prime Video<\/a> in 2017, Absentia follows an FBI special agent named Emily Byrne (Katic). When Emily disappears while hunting a notorious Boston serial killer, she is declared dead in absentia.<\/p>\n

When Emily’s husband, FBI agent Nick Durand (Heusinger), uncovers a clue to his missing wife’s whereabouts, he finds her alive after six years. Emily then learns the troubling news about Nick’s new spouse. <\/p>\n

The logline reads: “Years after her presumed death, an FBI agent escapes a serial killer’s clutches to find her family has moved on \u2014 and a new crime shadows her return.”<\/p>\n

Absentia currently occupies the number three spot in the streaming service’s top 10 series in the UK.<\/p>\n

All three seasons of the show have been added to the streamer, meaning fans can binge-watch 30 episodes of the thriller series now.<\/p>\n

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Related: <\/strong>Best streaming services<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Over on IMDb<\/a>, the show has a user rating of 7.2 out of 10 from over 18,000 reviews, with one user<\/a> calling Absentia “outstanding”. Their review continued: “It held my interest, kept me on the edge of my seat, and anxious for more. Cant say that about many shows these days. Kudos Ms Katic.”<\/p>\n

“It’s one of the best shows I’ve seen in years. I’ll see it again in a few years time as it was so good,” penned another<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Amazon Prime<\/p>\n

Related: <\/strong>Psychological thriller with ‘haunted detective’ that’s “worth seeking out” jumps up Netflix UK chart<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Another review read<\/a>: “Acting in my opinion was superb. BEST show\/movie that I’ve seen in forever!!! If you want your typical dribble that’s the majority of TV nowadays, skip this. If you want something different, time to WATCH! Hope there’s a season two!”<\/p>\n

One less favourable user review<\/a> stated: “This could have been a good series if they collapsed into 5-6 episodes. It is so drawn out that I found myself fast forwarding through superlative dialogue and scenes. Acting is passable at best with very mediocre performances.”<\/p>\n

Another wrote<\/a>: “The most intriguing moments in Absentia arise not from the whodunnit element but rather the sheer weirdness. Season 1 was phenomenal.”<\/p>\n

Absentia is streaming on Netflix. <\/strong>
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\"Lettermark\"<\/p>\n

Reporter, Digital Spy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Harriet is a freelance news writer specialising in TV<\/a> and movies<\/a> at Digital Spy<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A horror enthusiast, she joined Digital Spy<\/strong> after working on her own horror website, reviewing films and focusing largely on feminism in the genre.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In her spare time, Harriet paints and produces mixed-media art. She graduated from the University of Kingston with a BA in fine art, where she specialised in painting. She also has an MA in journalism from Birkbeck University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Absentia, the “outstanding” mystery drama centred on an FBI agent tracking a killer, is trending on Netflix right…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[341,104771,343,18,117,346,19,17,342,104770,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-186385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-content-type-news","9":"tag-contentid-8af19ece-174f-43c4-8bba-1b1d158c01af","10":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-hasproduct-true","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-locale-gb","17":"tag-shorttitle-outstanding-mystery-drama-trending-on-netflix","18":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115568479427877762","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}