Netflix viewers are ‘hooked’ on new psychological thriller mini-series
Netflix viewers are hooked to the streaming services latest thriller Dear Child which was released last week.
The six part series is based on Romy Hausmann’s bestselling German novel of the same name – Liebes Kind.
On Tuesday the drama while follows a ‘mysterious woman’s escape from her harrowing captivity’ landed at number 3 in the UK Netflix chart.
Dear Child begins when an unknown woman gets struck by a car in a forest at night, with a ‘precocious and strange’ little girl accompanying her in the ambulance.
The young child’s worrying comments about their past encourage nurses to alert the police – in turn prompting a 13-year-old missing persons case to finally be reopened.
‘The plot twist!’ Netflix viewers are hooked to the streaming services latest thriller Dear Child which was released last week
Amazing: The six part series is based on Romy Hausmann’s bestselling German novel of the same name – Liebes Kind
A synopsis from Netflix reads: ‘When Jasmin Grass (Kim Riedle) is kidnapped in a parking garage in the German thriller series Dear Child, she finds herself locked in a small windowless apartment in the middle of a northern German forest.
‘Her abductor – whose face we never see – dyes her dark hair blonde and calls her ‘Lena.’
From that moment on, she’s forced to live according to his strict rules and look after ‘their’ young children, Hannah (Naila Schuberth) and Jonathan (Sammy Schrein).
‘After five months, Lena manages to flee from her prison in a desperate and harrowing escape – but soon realises she can’t hide from her perpetrator.’
The series, which debuted on 7 September, has been teased ‘as intense as Gone Girl’ and has left viewers ‘unable to stop watching’.
Taking to X, formerly known as Twitter, one wrote: ‘Dear child on Netflix is such a good show, the plot twist omggg’.
Another said: ‘Dear Child on Netflix is really good got me hooked’
A third wrote: ‘#DearChild on Netflix literally has me at the edge of my bed. Wheww.’
A fourth commented: ‘The way #DearChild sucks you right in. Creepy good.’
Plot: On Tuesday the drama while follows a ‘mysterious woman’s escape from her harrowing captivity’ landed number 3 in the UK Netflix chat
First episode: Dear Child begins when an unknown woman gets struck by a car in a forest at night, with a ‘precocious and strange’ little girl accompanying her in the ambulance
‘It’s crazy good!’ The young child’s worrying comments about their past encourage nurses to alert the police – in turn prompting a 13-year-old missing persons case to finally be reopened
‘Started watching #DearChildNetflix and…what is going on?! The suspense is killing me…’ said another.
‘Dear Child on netflix is crazy good,’ said a sixth.
‘Dear child on Netflix 10/10 & im only on episode 2,’ said a seventh.
Another penned: ‘Dear child on Netflix has me so hooked!!!!’
Director and head writer Isabel Kleefeld said in an interview with Netflix’s Die Woche that those behind the scenes felt the story was ‘special’ as it told the narrative from the victim’s perspective, ‘never the perpetrator’s perspective’.
Co-writer and co-director Julian Pörksen added: ‘These are all damaged characters: people who are severely scarred by a crime and deal with it very differently.
‘The perpetrator is often the focus of such series and is glorified as a mysterious, dark force. That’s not the case with us.
‘And there is a main character who is extraordinary in every way. A girl who has a special view of the world, a special way of speaking, thinking and experiencing.’
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