# Gone for Good
**Gone for Good** (French: *Disparu à jamais*) is a French-language crime thriller miniseries released on Netflix on August 13, 2021, adapted from [Harlan Coben](https://www.edgepedia.org/harlan-coben)'s 2002 novel of the same name. Directed by Juan Carlos Medina and created by the French screenwriters David Elkaïm and Vincent Poymiro, it consists of five episodes of about 49 minutes and stars Finnegan Oldfield, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Guillaume Gouix, Garance Marillier, and Nailia Harzoune.[1](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/gone-for-good) • [2](https://about.netflix.com/es_es/news/netflix-announces-a-french-original-series-gone-for-good-an-adaptation-of-harlan-cobens-bestselling-thriller) • [3](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/gone_for_good)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Original title | *Disparu à jamais*, the French title of Coben's 2002 novel[1](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/gone-for-good) |
| Format | 1 season, 5 episodes, about 49 minutes each; TV-MA rating[1](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/gone-for-good) |
| Release | August 13, 2021, worldwide on Netflix[3](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/gone_for_good) |
| Setting | Nice, France; the novel is set in New Jersey, United States[4](https://www.forbes.com/sites/sheenascott/2021/08/14/gone-for-good-the-new-harlan-coben-adaptation-from-france-on-netflix/) |
| Key cast | Finnegan Oldfield (Guillaume), Nicolas Duvauchelle (Fred), Garance Marillier (Sonia and Inès), Nailia Harzoune (Judith), Guillaume Gouix (Daco)[3](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/gone_for_good) • [4](https://www.forbes.com/sites/sheenascott/2021/08/14/gone-for-good-the-new-harlan-coben-adaptation-from-france-on-netflix/) |
| Reception | IMDb 6.3/10 from about 6,700 users; Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer 36% from 4 critics[5](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14252964/ratings/) • [6](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/gone_for_good/s01) |
## Spoilers
### Plot
The story opens in 2010. Guillaume Lucchesi (Finnegan Oldfield) is in love with his ex-girlfriend Sonia (Garance Marillier), who lives next door. One evening he hears shouting and gunfire from her house and finds his brother Fred (Nicolas Duvauchelle) being chased by an armed man, while Sonia has drowned in the pool; Fred falls into the sea as the man keeps shooting.[4](https://www.forbes.com/sites/sheenascott/2021/08/14/gone-for-good-the-new-harlan-coben-adaptation-from-france-on-netflix/)
Ten years later, Guillaume works as a social worker (a street educator, in the French framing) and has rebuilt his life with his girlfriend Judith (Nailia Harzoune). At the funeral of Guillaume's mother, Judith receives a mysterious phone call and leaves; the next day her clothes are gone from their apartment and she has vanished. With his friend Daco (Guillaume Gouix) and Sonia's younger sister Inès, also played by Marillier, Guillaume digs through his own past and the secrets of those around him to find out what happened to her.[4](https://www.forbes.com/sites/sheenascott/2021/08/14/gone-for-good-the-new-harlan-coben-adaptation-from-france-on-netflix/) • [2](https://about.netflix.com/es_es/news/netflix-announces-a-french-original-series-gone-for-good-an-adaptation-of-harlan-cobens-bestselling-thriller)
Each episode carries the name of one of the five main characters, and each unravels the hidden past of the character it names, from Guillaume to Fred, while the search for Judith continues. Unlike the Spanish Coben adaptation *The Innocent*, the series does not shift narrative perspective between episodes.[4](https://www.forbes.com/sites/sheenascott/2021/08/14/gone-for-good-the-new-harlan-coben-adaptation-from-france-on-netflix/)
## Adaptation from the novel
The series adapts *Disparu à jamais*, the eleventh novel by the American thriller writer Harlan Coben, published in 2002. As with his other screen adaptations, the action was relocated, from a New Jersey neighborhood to the south of France, and set in the present day.[7](https://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle%3D18701980.html) • [8](https://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle%3D18691447.html)
Coben publicly welcomed the changes. In an interview with the *Journal du Dimanche* around the release, he said that "the best adaptation of a literary work is the one that departs from it the most" and that a series must not be a copy-paste of the book. Among the notable differences he cited is the treatment of the brother, played by Duvauchelle: his involvement in the plot is revealed only at the end of the series, unlike the novel.[7](https://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle%3D18701980.html)
## Production
Netflix announced the series on July 10, 2020 as a French original, a five-part thriller starring Oldfield, Duvauchelle, Gouix, and Marillier, directed by Medina, with Coben as executive producer and Calt Studio (Xavier Matthieu) producing. The screenwriting team was David Elkaïm and Vincent Poymiro, in collaboration with Pauline Guena, Nacim Mehtar, and Marion Festraëts.[2](https://about.netflix.com/es_es/news/netflix-announces-a-french-original-series-gone-for-good-an-adaptation-of-harlan-cobens-bestselling-thriller) Elkaïm and Poymiro had previously co-created the French series *Ainsi soient-ils* and *En thérapie*, the French adaptation of *In Treatment*, which became one of the most watched series on the channel Arte in 2020.[4](https://www.forbes.com/sites/sheenascott/2021/08/14/gone-for-good-the-new-harlan-coben-adaptation-from-france-on-netflix/)
The miniseries belongs to a larger arrangement: in 2018 Coben signed an exclusive multi-year deal with Netflix under which the platform would develop 14 of his existing novels, plus future projects, as series and films in English and other languages, with Coben as executive producer on all of them.[2](https://about.netflix.com/es_es/news/netflix-announces-a-french-original-series-gone-for-good-an-adaptation-of-harlan-cobens-bestselling-thriller) *Gone for Good* followed the Polish *The Woods* (2020), the British *Safe* and *Stay Close*, and the Spanish *The Innocent* in this slate of localized European adaptations.[2](https://about.netflix.com/es_es/news/netflix-announces-a-french-original-series-gone-for-good-an-adaptation-of-harlan-cobens-bestselling-thriller) • [9](https://www.telerama.fr/ecrans/disparu-a-jamais-sur-netflix-la-plateforme-decidement-accro-a-harlan-coben-6937545.php)
## Reception
Audience measures were moderate. The series holds an IMDb rating of 6.3/10 from about 6,700 users, with individual episodes scoring between 6.7 and 7.0, and a [JustWatch](https://www.edgepedia.org/justwatch) user rating of 68 percent.[5](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14252964/ratings/) • [1](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/gone-for-good) Critical response was cooler: the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer for season 1 stands at 36 percent from four reviews, and the series placed at the foot of Tom's Guide's ranking of Coben's Netflix adaptations.[6](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/gone_for_good/s01) • [10](https://www.tomsguide.com/entertainment/streaming/every-harlan-coben-show-you-can-stream-on-netflix-and-prime-video-ranked)
French critics were mixed. *Le Parisien* praised the cascade of twists for concealing the outcome until the final minutes and singled out Duvauchelle's performance as the tormented, violent brother, giving 3.5 out of 5; Télé 7 Jours called the series addictive and suspenseful to the closing credits. AlloCiné's own aggregation gives the series a press score of 3.0 and an audience score of 2.7.[11](https://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle%3D18702059.html) • [12](https://www.allocine.fr/series/ficheserie_gen_cserie%3D26183.html) Télérama's later retrospective ranking of the Coben Netflix collection placed *Disparu à jamais* last of twelve, calling the direction lacking in personality and the narration confusing in its time shifts, while noting that the Niçois setting gave the series a solar tone rare in the Coben catalog.[13](https://www.masculin.com/culture/900709-on-a-revu-toutes-les-adaptations-dharlan-coben-sur-netflix-voici-notre-classement-des-12-series-a-voir-ou-a-eviter/)
## Place in the Coben Netflix franchise
The series illustrates the template that Netflix's Coben deal produced: a European relocation of an American novel, a local-language cast, a missing-person mystery, family secrets resurfacing, and a late twist. Commentators have noted that the adaptations share these codes, with the differences lying mainly in direction, casting, and the use of local settings; French and Polish versions have been credited with stronger visual identity than some English-language entries.[13](https://www.masculin.com/culture/900709-on-a-revu-toutes-les-adaptations-dharlan-coben-sur-netflix-voici-notre-classement-des-12-series-a-voir-ou-a-eviter/) Since 2024, Netflix has released a new Coben series each January 1, and by 2026 the collection had grown well past the original fourteen-title commitment.[14](https://elpais.com/television/series/2026-08-03/harlan-coben-el-hombre-que-se-ha-convertido-en-el-arma-secreta-de-netflix.html)
## References
1. [Gone for Good (2021) – JustWatch](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/gone-for-good)
2. [Netflix anuncia la serie original francesa 'Gone For Good', adaptación del best-seller de Harlan Coben 'Por siempre jamás' – About Netflix](https://about.netflix.com/es_es/news/netflix-announces-a-french-original-series-gone-for-good-an-adaptation-of-harlan-cobens-bestselling-thriller)
3. [Gone for Good – Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/gone_for_good)
4. [Sheena Scott, 'Gone For Good': The New Harlan Coben Adaptation From France On Netflix – Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/sheenascott/2021/08/14/gone-for-good-the-new-harlan-coben-adaptation-from-france-on-netflix/)
5. [Gone for Good (TV Mini Series 2021) – Ratings – IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14252964/ratings/)
6. [Gone for Good: Season 1 – Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/gone_for_good/s01)
7. [Disparu à jamais sur Netflix : Harlan Coben réagit aux différences entre la série et son roman – AlloCiné](https://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle%3D18701980.html)
8. [Harlan Coben sur Netflix : sa prochaine série Disparu à jamais sera française – AlloCiné](https://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle%3D18691447.html)
9. ['Disparu à jamais', sur Netflix : la plateforme décidément accro à Harlan Coben – Télérama](https://www.telerama.fr/ecrans/disparu-a-jamais-sur-netflix-la-plateforme-decidement-accro-a-harlan-coben-6937545.php)
10. [Every Harlan Coben show you can stream on Netflix and Prime Video, ranked – Tom's Guide](https://www.tomsguide.com/entertainment/streaming/every-harlan-coben-show-you-can-stream-on-netflix-and-prime-video-ranked)
11. [Disparu à jamais sur Netflix : que pense la presse de la série adaptée du roman de Harlan Coben ? – AlloCiné](https://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle%3D18702059.html)
12. [Disparu à jamais – Série TV 2021 – AlloCiné](https://www.allocine.fr/series/ficheserie_gen_cserie%3D26183.html)
13. [On a revu toutes les adaptations d'Harlan Coben sur Netflix : voici notre classement des 12 séries – Masculin.com](https://www.masculin.com/culture/900709-on-a-revu-toutes-les-adaptations-dharlan-coben-sur-netflix-voici-notre-classement-des-12-series-a-voir-ou-a-eviter/)
14. [Harlan Coben, el hombre que se ha convertido en el arma secreta de Netflix – El País](https://elpais.com/television/series/2026-08-03/harlan-coben-el-hombre-que-se-ha-convertido-en-el-arma-secreta-de-netflix.html)
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