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Netflix‘s I Will Find You is the very model of a modern distracted-viewing show. Back in January, promoting The Rip, Matt Damon told a podcast host that Netflix was accounting for multi-tasking, multi-screen viewership by asking creators to “reiterate the plot three or four times in the dialogue.” It became the subject of a joke at the Oscars and was, briefly, enough a part of the discourse that Dan Lin, Netflix’s film chairman, had to deny the accusation at a company press event, saying “no such principle” existed. “I mean, if you watch our movies or TV shows, we don’t repeat our plots,” he said.
Because Lin is the chief of Netflix’s film operations, I assume he has not watched I Will Find You, the latest limited series adaptation from absurdly prolific hit-monger Harlan Coben. There is no plot point that isn’t repeated at least a half-dozen times and I put a heavy emphasis on “at least.”
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