Apple TV's new six-episode drama "Last Seen" gives Australian actor Patrick Brammall a standout role as an alcoholic police dispatcher convinced his kidnapped daughter is still alive 11 years after her disappearance. The Hollywood Reporter's review finds the series, adapted from Ryan David Jahn's novel "The Dispatcher," entertaining and fast-paced but riddled with plot holes and implausible character shifts, ultimately held together by Brammall's strong performance and supporting cast.

The story follows Ian Ridley, a former head of a Criminal Investigative Unit in the fictional Port McKenna, whose life unravelled after his daughter Maggie vanished, ending his marriage and career and pushing him into alcoholism. Six months sober, he is drawn back into obsession when human remains are found in the woods after a storm, abandoning his sobriety and proper procedure to investigate a reclusive family living on an isolated farm. The reviewer notes the series stretches credibility by having Ian's behaviour become erratic and illegal almost immediately, undermining its crime-drama framing, though the cast—including Jessica Wren, Brendan Cowell and Maxine Peake—help carry it. The review also mentions Brammall's other current project, "Colin From Accounts" season three with real-life wife Harriet Dyer, which the critic considers the stronger of his two simultaneous releases.