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Netflix has had a wildly successful year in 2026 after it came into the year riding high from the series finale of Stranger Things, which aired on Ne

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Netflix has had a wildly successful year in 2026 after it came into the year riding high from the series finale of Stranger Things, which aired on New Year’s Day. The show went toe-to-toe with Harlan Coben’s first Netflix show of the year, Run Away, which quietly picked up over 50 million views during its time in the streaming spotlight. Netflix shifted back to the sci-fi genre for one of its biggest up-to-date releases of all time in War Machine, starring Reacher veteran Alan Ritchson. After the film cracked the all-time Netflix global top 10, the sequel is officially being fast-tracked to release, with the title being confirmed this week as War Machines. After dominating Netflix with Run Away, though, legendary crime author Harlan Coben is back with his latest hit, I Will Find You.

Coben recruited a pair of big-time stars in Sam Worthington and Britt Lower to lead I Will Find You, which has quietly become the biggest TV show of 2026. Netflix consistently puts out up-to-date content, which leads to most up-to-date shows being drowned out by newer arrivals, but I Will Find You continues to stand the test of time. After earning over 85 million views during its first four weeks on the platform, I Will Find You has now been #1 on Netflix for a full month now following its June 18 premiere, making history as one of the few shows to ever accomplish such a feat. Even other shows like Avatar: The Last Airbender, which arrived after I Will Find You, have since dropped off streaming charts after only a few weeks in the top 10.



















Collider Exclusive · Universe Personality Quiz
Which Iconic Universe Do You Belong in the Most?
Star Wars · Lord of the Rings · Harry Potter · Game of Thrones · Star Trek

Five legendary universes. Five completely different visions of what the world could be — or already was. One of them is the world your instincts, your values, and your particular way of existing were built for. Eight questions will tell you which one.

🚀Star Wars

💍Lord of the Rings

🧙Harry Potter

👑Game of Thrones

🖖Star Trek

01

What gives your life its deepest sense of meaning?
Every universe is built around a different answer to this question.





02

Which kind of world do you most want to inhabit?
The environment shapes who you become. Choose carefully.





03

How do you prefer your conflicts resolved?
The shape of a world’s conflicts tells you everything about its soul.





04

Who do you want beside you when things get complex?
Your ideal companions reveal the world you were made for.





05

What is your relationship with power?
How you seek, wield, or resist power is the map of who you are.





06

How does your universe treat good and evil?
A world’s moral architecture tells you more about it than any map.





07

What role would you naturally fall into?
Every universe has archetypes. Which one fits you without trying?





08

What do you ultimately believe about the future?
The answer to this is the clearest window into which universe already lives inside you.





Your Universe Has Been Chosen
You Belong In…

Your answers point to the iconic universe your values, your instincts, and your particular way of seeing the world were built for. This is where you would find your people — and your purpose.


A Galaxy Far, Far Away

Star Wars

You believe in the cause — in the idea that freedom is worth fighting for even when the odds are impossible and the empire is extensive.

  • You are drawn to the moral clarity of a universe where hope itself is a form of resistance.
  • You’d find your people in the Rebellion — a ragtag coalition of true believers held together by conviction more than resources.
  • Star Wars is fundamentally a story about ordinary people choosing to matter in an extraordinary conflict — and that is exactly your kind of story.
  • The Force may or may not be with you. But the will to exploit it for something larger than yourself certainly is.


Middle-earth

Lord of the Rings

You understand, in the deepest part of yourself, that the journey matters as much as the destination — and that the world’s beauty is worth protecting even at great cost.

  • Middle-earth is a world of antique wonder, deep friendship, and a darkness that only retreats when enough tiny acts of courage accumulate.
  • You would thrive here because you value the fellowship more than the glory — the road more than the arrival.
  • Tolkien’s universe rewards patience, loyalty, and the willingness to carry something hefty across a very long distance.
  • Those are not burdens to you. They are simply how you move through the world.


The Wizarding World

Harry Potter

You believe that love, loyalty, and doing what’s right are not naive sentiments — they are the most powerful forces in any world, magical or otherwise.

  • The Wizarding World is a place of wonder hidden in plain sight, where learning is transformative and the bonds you form at school follow you into every battle.
  • You would flourish here because you take both the magic and the friendships seriously — and you understand that one without the other is incomplete.
  • Harry Potter’s universe ultimately rewards those who choose to stand for something even when standing is terrifying.
  • That choice — made quietly, without guarantee — is something you understand completely.


Westeros · The Known World

Game of Thrones

You see the world clearly — its power structures, its hypocrisies, its brutal arithmetic — and you are not paralysed by that clarity. You exploit it.

  • Westeros is a world that rewards intelligence, adaptability, and the willingness to understand that every alliance is also a negotiation.
  • You would survive here — possibly thrive here — because you don’t confuse the world as it is with the world as you’d like it to be.
  • Game of Thrones is a story about what happens when the idealists and the realists collide. You are piercing enough to know which one lasts longer.
  • Winter always comes. You are already prepared.


The United Federation of Planets

Star Trek

You believe the future is worth building — that curiosity, cooperation, and the expansion of understanding are not just ideals but the most practical path forward for any civilisation.

  • Star Trek is a universe where the questions matter as much as the answers, and where encountering something utterly alien is cause for wonder rather than fear.
  • You would belong here because you are fundamentally bullish about what intelligence and decency can achieve — while being straightforward about how demanding that achievement is.
  • The Federation is the universe’s most ambitious thought experiment: what if we actually got better?
  • You don’t just hope that’s possible. You think it’s the only thing worth working toward.

Is ‘I Will Find You’ Getting a Season 2?

Netflix has yet to announce if I Will Find You has been renewed for Season 2, but it’s unlikely that the show will continue beyond Season 1. This isn’t due to a lack of success, of course, but more due to the constrained series nature of the show, meaning it was only ever designed to run for only one season. It’s impossible to rule out the show coming back for Season 2, be it with the same characters or up-to-date ones in an anthology-style series. Still, Coben has struck gold once again for Netflix, and he’s even returning to the platform soon for an adaptation of his best-selling book, Myron Bolitar.

Check out all eight episodes of I Will Find You on Netflix and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of all the hottest projects on streaming.



Release Date

2026 – 2026-00-00

Network

Netflix

Showrunner

Robert Hull

Directors

Adam Davidson, Brad Anderson, Maggie Kiley, Maja Vrvilo

Writers

Heather Mitchell, Bryan Wynbrandt, Robert Hull, Steven Lilien