Netflix Has a Real-Life Thriller That’s the Dark Twin of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

Netflix just dropped a new thriller, and it is not shy about going for the jugular. 'No One Saw Us Leave' plays like the moodier, meaner cousin to 'A Good Girl's Guide to Murder' — same addictive mystery vibe, but with a heavier emotional punch. And since the two titles keep getting mentioned in the same breath, I also pulled together where things stand with 'A Good Girl's Guide to Murder' season 2.

'No One Saw Us Leave': What it is and why people are talking

The limited series landed on October 15, 2025 and has been getting strong reactions for its emotional intensity, tight storytelling, and a lead trio that really shows up: Tessa Ia, Emiliano Zurita, and Juan Manuel Bernal. The story is set in the 1960s and centers on a young wife and mother whose worst nightmare becomes real when her own husband abducts their two kids. She refuses to roll over and starts hunting them down.

Based on a true story (with a crucial perspective shift)

Yes, there is a real-life spine here. The show is inspired by author Tamara Trottner's 2020 autobiography, also titled 'No One Saw Us Leave'. As a child, Trottner and her brother were taken from their mother and shuffled across multiple countries; they stayed separated from her for three years.

'I have just turned five. This is the last day of my childhood.'

That line opens Trottner's memoir. The series, though, flips the viewpoint from Tamara to her mother, Valeria Goldberg, and follows Valeria's fight to bring her kids home.

The setup: arranged marriage, a family power play, and a mother on the offensive

Here is the clean version of the show's plot: Valeria is in an arranged marriage to Leo Saltzman. After she crosses the powerful Saltzman family, they scheme to ruin her name and take the children. Leo, nudged by his parents, kidnaps their young kids, Tamara and Isaac, and disappears to Europe without telling Valeria. She counters by hiring Elías, a former Mossad agent turned private investigator, to help track them down. It is a big, personal story that still plays like a thriller — and that ex-spy-turned-PI detail gives it a pulpy kick.

'A Good Girl's Guide to Murder' season 2: Where things stand

Netflix renewed the mystery series not long after its August 2024 debut, but there is still no official release date for season 2. The new season adapts book two in Holly Jackson's series, 'Good Girl, Bad Blood', and keeps the focus on Pip as she wades into fresh trouble after resolving the Andie Bell case.

Cameras rolled in April 2025 — the show's official Instagram confirmed the start of filming — and the cast called it a wrap in July 2025 with a very confident promise that season 2 is bigger, badder, and better.

• Returning cast: Emma Myers, Zain Iqbal, Asha Banks, Jude Morgan-Collie, Yali Topol Margalith, Henry Ashton
• New faces: Misia Butler, Eden H. Davies, Jack Rowan

'No One Saw Us Leave' and 'A Good Girl's Guide to Murder' are both streaming on Netflix. If you have watched both, which one grabbed you more?