Found (TV series)

Main

• Shanola Hampton as Gabrielle "Gabi" Mosely, a former kidnapping victim who manages a crisis management firm named Mosely & Associates (M&A). The firm specializes in finding missing people that have been ignored or forgotten by law enforcement and the mainstream media. Twenty years after her initial kidnapping, Gabi abducts her kidnapper, Hugh "Sir" Evans, as revenge and holds him captive in her basement in order to get into the minds of kidnappers and understand their patterns. Gabi is also a public relations expert.
  • A'zaria Carter portrays young Gabi in flashbacks.
• Kelli Williams as Margaret Reed, an associate investigator at Mosely and Associates (M&A) with excellent observational and deductive reasoning skills that she has obtained while searching for her missing son Jamie, who disappeared from a local bus station 13 years ago. Every night after work, she returns to the bus station in hopes of finding Jamie or any information regarding his disappearance. Margaret's obsession with finding Jamie has led to a strained relationship with her two daughters Taylor and Rachel.
• Brett Dalton as Detective Mark Trent, a DC detective and Gabi's police liaison.
• Gabrielle Walsh as Lacey Quinn (formerly Bella Parker), a law school student who works at M&A as an intern. She was also kidnapped by Sir as a child and held in captivity with Gabi, where the two formed a close bond. After Gabi and Bella's escape from Sir, Bella changes her name to Lacey.
• Arlen Escarpeta as Zeke Wallace, a tech expert whose own past experience of being abducted by his uncle as a child has given him a debilitating case of agoraphobia. He provides Gabi with surveillance and hacking services and helps fund M&A with money from his trust fund.
• Karan Oberoi as Dhan Rana, a military veteran who was MIA and held captive for three years. He now acts as the association's security expert and enforcer when needed. He lives with his husband Ethan, who is a mental health professional.
• Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Hugh "Sir" Evans, a former high school English teacher and serial kidnapper who kidnapped Gabi and held her captive for one year and eight days. After Gabi's escape, Sir disappears and evades police and punishment for 20 years. Sir is eventually found and abducted by Gabi, who locks him in her basement and uses him to help solve some of her missing persons cases (though he would escape the basement at the end of the first season).

Recurring

• Lee Osorio as Ethan Rana, Dhan's husband
• Anisa Nyell Johnson as Detective Shaker, a DCPD detective and Trent's occasional partner.
• Dionne Gipson as Gina Parker (season 2), Lacey's mother^[6][7]
• Michael Cassidy as Christian Evans (season 2), Sir's brother, a grief counselor^[8]
• Danielle Savre as Heather Tollin (season 2), a mysterious and ambitious attorney who will become intimately involved in the lives of Gabi Mosely's team at M&A^[9][10] She is eventually revealed to be Sir's younger half-sister Lena, who aims to free her brother and destroy Gabi.
• Parker Queenan as Jamie Reed (season 2), Margaret's son who was kidnapped 13 years before the series. He reunites with her as an adult, and works to piece together the truth behind his abduction.
• Suehyla El-Attar Young as Carrie (season 2), a deranged woman who kidnapped Jamie as a child to replace her own son (who had been removed from her custody by CPS), then posed as a friend to Margaret in order to learn personal details about him and keep tabs on her search efforts.

Series overview

Season 1 (2023–24)

Season 2 (2024–25)

Development

On August 23, 2019, it was announced that ABC had given a pilot commitment on Found, a drama from Warner Bros. Television and Berlanti Productions. ^[1] In January 2022, it was announced that NBC had given a pilot order with the production company Rock My Soul Productions. Later in April 2022, it was announced that DeMane Davis would direct the pilot.^[2] On July 20, 2022, it was announced that NBC officially ordered the series. Greg Berlanti serves as an executive producer.^[49] On November 29, 2023, NBC renewed the series for a second season^[50] that will have 22 episodes.^[51] On May 9, 2025, NBC canceled the series after two seasons.^[3]

Casting

On March 2, 2022, it was announced that Shanola Hampton would be starring in the pilot in the role of Gabi Mosely.^[52] On April 29, 2022, it was announced Mark-Paul Gosselaar had joined the cast as Sir.^[53] On May 18, 2022, Kelli Williams joined the cast.^[54] On July 20, 2022, alongside the series order, it was announced that Arlen Escarpeta, Brett Dalton, Gabrielle Walsh and Karan Oberoi were all cast.^[49] On March 29, 2024, Dionne Gipson was cast in a recurring role for the second season.^[6] On May 15, 2024, Michael Cassidy joined the cast in a recurring capacity for the second season.^[8] On June 14, 2024, Danielle Savre was cast in a recurring role for the second season.^[9]

Filming

After the show was ordered to series, the rest of the first season began shooting in October 2022^[55] and wrapped in March 2023.^[56] The first season of the series was filmed in Atlanta, Georgia, and consisted of 13 episodes.^[57] Filming for the second season began in early March 2024.^[58]

Music

On September 13, 2023, it was announced that Sherri Chung would compose the show's score.^[59]

Ratings

As of October 11, 2023, the series premiere of Found was watched by 10.5 million viewers across all platforms and earned a 1.9 rating in the adults 18–49 key demographic. Within six days of release, Found became NBC's most successful series launch on Peacock.^[65] By November 2023, the series premiere was watched by over 20 million viewers with subsequent episodes of the first season averaging 7.4 million viewers after seven days of viewing across all platforms.^[66] In Live+7 Day Nielsen ratings, which exclude streaming numbers, the first season of Found averaged 4.99 million viewers and a 0.55 rating in the adults 18–49 key demographic.^[67]

During Found's second season, episodes averaged 6.2 million viewers and a 1.1 rating in the adults 18–49 key demographic after 35 days of viewing across all platforms.^[68]

Critical response

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 70% approval rating with an average rating of 7/10, based on 10 critic reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Anchored by a very watchable Shanola Hampton, Found is an uneasy marriage of procedural and serialized storytelling that's slick enough to get lost in."^[69] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 49 out of 100 based on 6 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[70]

Accolades

At the 35th GLAAD Media Awards, Found was nominated for Outstanding New TV Series.^[71] At the 55th NAACP Image Awards, Found was nominated for Outstanding Drama Series and Nkechi Okoro Carroll was nominated for Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series.^[72]