I Will Find You joins Netflix’s Top 10 most popular English-language seasons of all..

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The streamer’s latest Harlan Coben limited series adaptation has claimed the No. 10 spot on Netflix’s list of most-watched English-language seasons with 101.9 million views worldwide more than a month after its June 18 premiere. “The limited series starring Sam Worthington and Britt Lower — in which Worthington’s character, David Burroughs, breaks out of prison after learning the son he was wrongfully convicted of killing might still be alive — needed just 39 days to move into the all-time list,” says The Hollywood Reporter’s Rick Porter. “With 7.3 million views last week, I Will Find You also reached the top ranking for the fifth week since its June 18 premiere. It’s the first English-language series to spend five weeks in at No. 1 since season two of Wednesday in September 2025 (the most recent seasons of Stranger Things and Bridgerton topped the charts for four weeks each).” I Will Find You is the second Coben series to make Netflix’s all-time Top 10, after 2024’s Fool Me Once, which has since been bumped down a few spots. “It’s a tremendous thrill. It is never not a thrill for me,” Coben tells The Hollywood Reporter. “It is never not something that I don’t stop and appreciate. I’m ridiculously grateful. And all it does is make me want to work even harder on the next one.” As Porter explains, “since Netflix began releasing global top 10 lists five years ago, shows based on Coben’s works have made the worldwide charts 41 times and reached the top 10 in 93 countries. Since the start of 2023, Coben’s shows have amassed more than 450 million views on Netflix. The steamer, which has a partnership with Coben dating back to 2018, has adapted 13 of his novels as series (in the United States, U.K., France, Spain, Poland and Argentina), with more to come. On deck is Myron Bolitar, based on Coben’s 12-book series about a sports agent (played by Colin Woodell); it started production this week, with David E. Kelley and Kyle Long as co-showrunners.” Asked about changes from his books to the screen, Coben says: “All I care about is what’s going to make the best TV series. One of my favorite quotes comes from James M. Cain, who wrote The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity. An interviewer asked him, don’t you hate what Hollywood has done to your books? And he said, they’ve done nothing to my books. They’re right there on the shelf. Whatever I do in a TV adaptation doesn’t change one word of the books. I think often the worst adaptations are overly worried about fidelity to the book. I don’t really worry about it. The book’s pretty good. It’s a good story, so we’re gonna follow that. But if I have to change something, I will. Also, when I’m writing a book, I don’t think about the TV adaptation at all. I think it’s the kiss of death for a writer to think, ‘Ooh, this is gonna make a really great TV series.’ As a novelist, that’s the worst thing you can do. I don’t mind eventually changing everything. A novel is a singular pleasure. A TV series is a different kind of pleasure.”