Overview
- BritBox’s crime drama Gone centers on the disappearance of music teacher Sarah Polly and on the investigation that raises suspicion about her husband, headmaster Michael Polly.
- Critics have praised David Morrissey’s restrained turn as Michael and Eve Myles’s grounded detective work, and reviewers highlight the show’s measured, tension-driven pacing.
- Coverage differs on how the series was released: IndieWire reported all six episodes would be available July 23, while Variety and TV Insider say the first three premiered July 23 with the remaining episodes to air weekly.
- Writer George Kay’s name and past work (Lupin, Hijack) are invoked to explain the show’s focus on slow-building suspense, and reviewers note the series draws loose inspiration from the true-crime book To Hunt a Killer.
- Set at a Bristol private school, the story uses the institutional setting and a secondary cold-case thread to explore control, trauma and toxic masculine behavior and to shape the community fallout from Sarah’s disappearance.