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The Five (2016)

The Five poster
Genre
crime television series, thriller television series
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 10 episodes
Rated
TV-PG
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 101 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of childhood friends is reunited by a DNA match that suggests a boy who vanished twenty years ago may still be alive. They work together to uncover the truth behind his disappearance and a connected murder.

tensemysterioussuspensefulgrippingemotionaldarkneighborhood-dramaslow-burn

What happens

The Five also known as Harlan Coben's The Five, is a British mystery thriller miniseries created by crime author Harlan Coben and written by Danny Brocklehurst, Mick Ford, Dan Sefton, and John Jackson. Tom Cullen, O. T. Fagbenle, Lee Ingleby and Sarah Solemani star as childhood friends Mark, Danny, Slade, and Pru, who are reunited when DNA evidence left at a murder scene is revealed to be from Mark's younger brother Jesse, who disappeared twenty years earlier. The series first broadcast on 15 April 2016 on Sky1 and consists of ten episodes, with two episodes broadcast each week consecutively. Set in the fictional town of Westbridge, the series was filmed in Liverpool, Wirral, Runcorn and surrounding areas including Frodsham. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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