Fictions based on the novels of the writer Harlan Coben have become favorites of many Netflix users since the author’s books began to be adapted in 2020. For example, one of the most viewed on the platform of streaming is The innocent by director Oriol Paulo, whose protagonist was the famous actor Mario Casas. Another of the most consulted is the series Wiles (Fool me once) which premiered on December 31, 2023 on Netflix and which also became a big audience success. The protagonist is a woman whose husband has just died and she tries to get over it little by little, but everything changes for her when she discovers in the recording of a security camera that she has images of his girl in her room. and discovers that he is alive.
From that moment on, the life of Maya Stern, as this woman is called, changed radically because she realized that live a lie and you need to find out as soon as possible what happened. Why did your husband fake his death? Does anyone else know this? Wiles This is an 8-episode mystery and suspense series that hooks you from the first and, like all Harlan Coben stories, has those twists and turns that keep you in constant tension. In the first seven days on Netflix, this series reached 37.1 million views and during these months of 2024 it continued to maintain good audience figures.
What happens to Maya in the series Wiles from Netflix?
The series Wiles Netflix account Maya Stern’s story (Michelle Keegan) whose husband Joe (Richard Armitage) was murdered in front of her as they walked down the street together at night. As is logical, Maya is very affected, but she is also trying for her daughter to move on with her life. A few days later, while watching security camera recordings from her daughter’s bedroom, she discovered her husband playing with the little girl. Maya doesn’t understand anything and decides to investigate what happened and why her husband lied to her.
It must be taken into account that Maya’s sister was shot in her own house a few years ago, even though it was in principle unrelated to her husband’s murder. In addition, Maya was in the army and from the beginning of the series we are shown how she carries various traumas that no longer allow her to lead a normal life.
As in all fiction based on Harlan Coben’s novels nothing is what it seems and Maya will have to discover a whole family plot that has been hatched behind her back. Deceit is above all an entertaining series in which various clues are left in each episode so that the viewer can imagine what happened.
The cast of this suspense series
The protagonists of the series Wiles from Netflix are actress Michelle Keegan (Brassic) which gives life to Maya and actor Richard Armitage (Obsession), to her husband. This famous actor is known for having played characters like Guy of Gisborne in the series Robin Hoodto John Porter in Counterattack and the dwarf Thorin in the three films with which it was adapted The Hobbit. Actress Michelle Keegan is only known for her portrayal of Tina McIntyre in the series Coronation.
Besides the protagonists, it also stands out the performance of actress Joanna Lumley which brings to life the scheming mother of the deceased who plays an important role in the plot of this series. We have also seen the actress in films like Before You, The Wolf of Wall Street and She’s Enchanted. Also in the cast of this series are actors Adeel Akhtar, Joe Armstrong, Dino Fetscher, Emmett Scanlan and Thea Taylor-Morgan, among others.
News recently emerged that Netflix had given the green light to two other adaptations of Harlan Coben novels. The two new mini-series will be Missing you and Run Away and they still don’t know what the release date will be. The company Quay Street Productions, supported by ITV Studios and founded by Nicola Shindler and which was at the origin of Deceptions, will be responsible for the production of these two new mini-series. Additionally, writer Harlan Coben will serve as executive producer through his production company Final Twist Productions.
The series I miss you will count the story of Detective Kat Donovanwho meets her fiancé on a dating app. This discovery will force him to once again confront the mystery surrounding his father’s murder. Run Away, however, focuses on Simon, a person with a perfect life who is shattered when his eldest daughter, Paige, runs away and ends up drugged in a city park.
