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The initially great idea of the posh neighbourhood with a fence is mournfully wasted too. There were few moments, when I really raised my brow. Nothing’s wrong wit that, unless you watch the next episodes and see that people in “Safe” behave as if the era of technology was reduced to… messaging.

The starting point of the plot is Tom bugging the phone of his daughter with an app (apparently an app made specifically for him). On the contrary, it seems that the modern times constitute a trap for the creators of the series. The story doesn’t exploit its setting either. This machine’s whirring sounds like it needs oiling up. There is so much emphasis placed on the story, that its vast part – people involved – feels completely empty. Their characters are like gears in a complicated machine of Coben’s labyrinth, moving accordingly to the entire great scheme of things.

Most of his character development focuses on Hall bouncing from door to door, asking people “where’s Jenny” and doing utterly stupid things, that should have had him thrown in jail after a few episodes. His role is not very well-written either. The actor struggles with imitating the British accent, which is heard even by a non-native speaker (ergo me). Hall in the leading role is also far from his best. The script is a never-ending pursuit of “unexpected” twists, which halfway through the season begin to wear off. And it does feel that that his iron hand has been present during the production. The show’s been co-produced by Harlan Coben, an American writer, whose novel served as a source material for the series. “Safe” is much closer to the second type. A series, whose sole purpose was to entertain the viewer and in an Arthur Conan Doylesque way bring him immersed in the investigation.

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A series profoundly deepening the concept of character development and a series devoted to picturing the brutal reality of police work. One is “The Wire” – a milestone in the history of television development. You see, the division could be illustrated with two examples. There isn’t many crime dramas, that have gone beyond the line of a regular whodunnit. Tom starts looking for the girl, but it’s not the only strange thing that takes place in the “safe” neighborhood. One of them disappears after sneaking out to a house party. Hall plays Tom Delaney, a widower and a father of two girls. Starring: Michael C.A strange blend of British humor, dark crime drama and hothead storytelling, which doesn’t quite deliver what it initially promises.The drama series was created by mystery novelist Harlan Coben. As the investigation intensifies, Tom unearths dark secrets about the people closest to him in his affluent neighborhood. Tom enlists girlfriend Sophie, a police detective, to help locate the teens, but her new partner is working her own agenda. But the situation takes a turn for the worse when Jenny, Tom's oldest daughter, goes missing along with her boyfriend. Things seem to be on the right track for the family, who live in a gated community, because they have close friends nearby and Tom is in the early stages of a new relationship. Widowed surgeon Tom has struggled to raise his two daughters alone following his wife's death a year ago.

Safe by harlan coben