I Will Find You Mini-Series Review

I Will Find You (2026)

Mini-series - 8 episodes (2026)
Created by: Robert Hull
Starring: Sam Worthington, Britt Lower, Chi McBride, Milo Ventimiglia, Jonathan Tucker, Logan Browning
Rated: TV-MA
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Plot
A father imprisoned for his son's murder receives evidence suggesting his child may be alive, compelling him to escape and uncover the truth.

Verdict
The show provides cheap thrills. Outlandish is an apt descriptor, from how characters behave to the situations they find or put themselves in. It's a soap opera and thus works best if you don't think too much about its relationship with reality. The core is a twisting mystery that eventually involves all the characters to some degree. Nothing is quite what it seems. It's enjoyable enough, but it's also easy to start poking several holes into the plot.
It depends.

Review
David Burroughs (Sam Worthington) serves a life sentence for murdering his son, but he claims he didn't do it. When his ex-sister-in-law Rachel (Britt Lower), a disgraced former reporter, visits him, she shows him a photo of someone that could be his son. David is convinced it's Matthew and that he's alive.

There's a lot of heightened drama. A prison guard seems to be monitoring David. The warden is a family friend and wonders, with David's father, if there are any loose ends from the night of the murder. A serial killer approaches David, apparently with the intent to kill him. David also finds a discrepancy with a witness. Wouldn't he have pored over those files when this first unfolded? This show is designed for maximum drama. I would argue to a fault.

E2: Sam Worthington, Britt Lower play David Burroughs, Rachel Mills

David stages a jail break with a lot of help. Rachel picks him up, and they head to the guard, Wesson, that tried to kill him. Why would Wesson stay put at his own house? If he's afraid, wouldn't he try to run? He tells David they've been watching him since the beginning, but we don't know who. Everything is so cryptic. What kind of conspiracy merits this level of cover up?

David heads to the witness. She didn't exactly lie as David's family feared he was guilty and tried to cover up the crime. Despite that, someone else intimidated the witness to further incriminate David. It's convoluted to say the least. David meets with Skunk who pressured the witness and somehow has a role in this. Skunk tells David it's his father's fault, and that his ex-wife's current husband is also mixed up in all of this.

E5: Britt Lower, Sam Worthington play Rachel Mills, David Burroughs

Rachel's ex Hayden (Milo Ventimiglia) seems to be involved, but he's also been helping David because he still loves Rachel. That and I assume he's so rich he's bored and needed something exciting to do.

Then you have two FBI agents, Greer (Logan Browning) and Williams (Chi McBride), that are tasked with apprehending David. Even they begin to wonder if David was falsely imprisoned as there are so many things that seem amiss in this case.

David thinks he'll finally get answers from Nicky Fisher who it's implied killed David's kid as revenge. Nicky blame's David's father for the death of his son, though that's only part of it. This conspiracy spans the globe all the way to a Swiss orphan. Hayden isn't as selfless as he seemed. Rich people, am I right?

E5: Logan Browning, Chi McBride play Sarah Greer, Max Williams

This is a story built on unlikely scenarios and coincidences. I wasn't sure why Hayden had a part in this other than to build this big moment for the show. We discover a person helping David and Rachel has a completely different agenda.

The final episode is the wild face off where all is revealed, a convoluted and twisting maze that is much simpler than it appears. It's absolutely unhinged behavior, but it has to be to create a plot like this. The story's first goal is to entertain, and it does that by bending reality.

SPOILERS

The simple answer is that Hayden though Matthew was his own son. That's because David's ex-wife went to a fertility clinic and used Rachel's name. Hayden's family owns the clinic, and he kept tabs on Rachel. He had the doctor use his sample for 'Rachel,' but Cheryl was already pregnant. Hayden forgot about this crime, but when he saw Matthew years later he rememebered, kidnapped the kid, and stayed in the same city not even trying to cover it up a little bit. I wonder about this kid. In the finale he's told his entire life is a lie. He sees his biological father shot and who he thought was his father shot to death. How do you recover from that? All the series tells us is that Rachel got a book deal out of it and David got out of prison.