LOS ANGELES, June 26 -- Before the week was out, twenty-four million households had spent part of their June chasing a man through a premise so bleak it should not have been comfort viewing: a father wrongly imprisoned for his own child's murder, given a photograph that suggests the boy may still be alive.

That is the aperture through which Harlan Coben's latest Netflix adaptation drew its record crowd. "I Will Find You," which premiered on June 18, logged 131.7 million hours of global watch time in its first four days, marking the biggest debut of any new series on the platform in 2026, Variety reported. The figure is not merely a record. It is a signal that the formula Coben has been running with Netflix since 2018, one built on suburb...