Disparue

If considered separately, particularly, then Disparue is definitely not bad - the story is in place, tensions and twists available, most of performances and characters sustained... But, having comprehensive knowledge of similar Scandinavian creation, then you might want to declare that the final solution is too trivial, there are several scenes providing no additional value to the course of events, and that the French-specific qualities (e.g. friskiness, inconsistency, fast talking) do not fully fit in the background, requiring more balanced and reasoned approaches and actions (instead of Lyon - although a fine place - the location could have been a city in Northern France where Belgian/British "calmness" is more visible). Moreover, female performances excel the male ones, and as for some suspects, it was evident right away that they cannot be offenders in this case, event taking into account the past actions.

But still, if you have not seen e.g. Forbrydelsen, then Disparue is a unquestionably a worth-watch, preferably within short interval, in order to main the thrill between the episodes.

One of best taut drama, suspense, series I've seen. On a free trial of "Acorn TV" on Amazon, I decided to give this a try and was immediately drawn in and couldn't tear myself away. Great mystery, story, characters, acting, direction, and locale in Lyon, France.

The very real anguish of a family, after the disappearance of their teenage daughter and the gradually building nightmare gathers steam hour after hour, keeping you guessing right up to the end. A +++

Was hooked from the first episode. Then found out it was actually a remake of a 2008 Spanish TV series set in Madrid and that won many awards. Would love to watch the original in Spanish now!

From 'Twin Peaks' to 'The Killing', we're all familiar with the basic template of 'The Disappearance': an attractive but apparently ordinary teenage girl suffers a grim fate, and the detectives have to understand her dark secrets to figure this out. Cue lots of grieving relatives, red herrings and nasty surprises in an extended format. Some series of this sort are even rather good, but 'The Disapperance' will not be joining my list of favourites. Somehow the characters just don't come individually to life, perhaps in part because everyone is beautiful. And a lot of the plot seems to hang upon the girl's father conducting a shadow of the police investigation in a way I found scarcely credible. Finally, the red herrings are all ultimately revealed to be just that, completely unrelated to the crux of the story. Perhaps the problem is simply that the story isn't sufficient interesting to sustain eight episodes. 'The Killing' had a political dimension whereas 'Twin Peaks' soon went off in its own, original direction. Without any novelty, 'The Disappearance', while nicely put together, lacks any elements to lift it above its genre.

Another drama where you have the grieving making accusations at the police, because they think they're not doing their jobs correctly. Blame Blame. Oh and wait 'loud outbursts'.

While I thought it was over the top it still drew me in. I knew who the killer was in the 1st 30 minutes. What kept me watching was they were to be caught, with the twists and turns.