I haven't written about "Missing" since the series debuted. Based on your comments at the time, and on the show's dwindling ratings, I'm guessing most of you haven't been watching it. But I did have one thing I wanted to discuss about tonight's episode, and how it ties back to something from the pilot, coming up just as soon as I have a butler...
Okay, so Sean Bean dies in virtually every role he plays. It's his thing. But he tends to die at the ends of movies and TV seasons, and not at the beginning. So when I saw Bean appear to blow up real good within the first five minutes of the "Missing" pilot — knowing that Bean had signed on as a series regular — I said to myself, "Okay, he faked his death and will turn out to be behind the whole kidnapping, right?"
And as the pilot moved along and Ashley Judd started coming across clues that someone had been photographing her son all those years, I felt like the "Missing" producers were aware that people would assume what I had, and were having some fun with it. Then I went to press tour, and I asked the producers about that, and they very firmly insisted that Bean's character was dead and they had hired Bean to appear only in flashbacks.
This sounded fishy, and became even fishier when Cliff Curtis let slip that he had filmed a scene where he was running after both Judd and Bean (whom Curtis wouldn't have known in the past, since he only meets Judd in the pilot). So I asked again, and they denied it firmly again, and at that point, some of my enthusiasm for "Missing" went away.
I get that they didn't want a big spoiler out there in the world, but to me it seemed so wildly obvious that I hoped they might find a way to at least be cleverly coy about it, when instead they were as sober as the tone of the whole series.
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