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A young woman returns to the town she was abducted from 11 years earlier. Told in dual timelines, the episodes tell the story when Detective Julien Baptiste investigates the missing case.
Series two's opening episode, featuring a brand new story and a new missing child / children, hits all the right notes, with heaps of intrigue and a mightily impressive new cast.
Baptiste wants to give them a happy ending, without ignoring the haunting lessons. By embracing him - as well as an ambitious premise - The Missing improves in Season 2. And where they go from here remains enticingly unknown.
It is ... like the first series, a deeply human story about loss and grief and blame, and what something like this would do to a marriage and to a family.
The Missing on BBC1 is like televisual Sudoku, yet it is utterly compelling, brilliantly acted and written, and a match for the much-lauded Scandinavian noir of recent years.
I won't write this off yet - I'll be back for more next week, mainly for Hawes and Morrissey - but let's hope that the second series of The Missing isn't let down by another anti-climax.
It's that kind of quick-witted mystery storytelling that allows The Missing to stand out against other pulpy whodunits. It keeps you guessing, and keeps you watching.
The Missing does an excellent job of making its many, many twists feel like natural reveals, and it moves along at a quick pace while leaving enough time to explore the difficult and complicated emotions of its leads.