A Netflix drama based on a story by Harlan Coben.
It is one of these adaptations where everyone has something to hide.
A young man Carlton Flynn on a night out in Blackpool disappears. His drink was spiked and a carnival was taking place. 17 years earlier, a man called Stewart Green disappeared almost to the day.
A down on his luck photographer Ray might have caught a picture of Carlton. Maybe that was a reason why he was mugged and his camera stolen.
Green was obsessed with Megan (Cush Jumbo) who was an exotic dancer in Blackpool. Now she has rebuilt her life elsewhere, she has three children and is about to marry her partner.
Things are going well until an old face from the past reappears and tells Megan that Stewart Green is back. Megan is convinced that he is dead.
The police Michael (James Nesbitt) and Erin (Jo Joyner) a former married couple are looking into the disappearance of Carlton.
Stay Close tries to paint a seedy underbelly of Blackpool. In some ways it alludes to Brighton Rock. When Megan goes to see some guy called Harry Sutton (Eddie Izzard) he is off his head on drugs and two goons try to rob her.
It is moody and leisurely paced. Cush Jumbo was good but I did not find myself being grabbed by this yet although you just know a lot of people are connected with each other.