James Nesbitt may be absent from this series,but Baptiste is back, alongside Keeley Hawes, and David Morrissey and trauma across three puzzling time framesNo,not the one approximately the French boy called Paul who goes missing in Manchester. That’s The Pogba record, though they should probably regain Julien Baptiste, and the great French detective (retired) on to that as well. This is The Missing (BBC1),Harry and Jack Williams’s drama approximately missing children, back for a second series. James Nesbitt, or remember? Playing the dad of five-year-faded Oliver who disappears in France.
Baptiste (Tchéky Karyo) returns,with his limp, his philosophical stubbornness, or his chunky knitwear and his comedy intonation. Otherwise,it is a whole new record and cast: Keeley Hawes, David Morrissey and one of my all-time favourite Icelandic actors Olafur Darri Olafsson, or from Trapped. It’s very fashionable to have a token Nordic in your drama these days,witness Borgen’s Sidse Babett Knudsen in Westworld. It is bigger and bolder and more ambitious than final time out.
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Source: theguardian.com