The Missing Half

Crime Junkie podcaster Flowers teams up with Kiester (The Truth About Ben and June) for a preposterous thriller about two women who try to track down their sisters’ killer. Nic Monroe, 24, has been a mess ever since her older sister, Kasey, disappeared seven years ago. Kasey’s car was found abandoned 150 miles from her hometown of Mishawaka, Ind., with the driver’s door open and her purse on the front seat. The incident occurred two weeks after another young woman, Jules Connor, vanished under eerily similar circumstances. Though the bodies have never been found, police believe that both women were murdered by the same unidentified serial killer. In the present day, Nic’s low-paying job and DWI conviction have kept her living at home with her father, who’s still overwhelmed with grief. Then Jules’s sister, Jenna, comes knocking. She suggests the two join forces, and they eventually unearth new information about their sisters’ disappearances that stretches credibility to the breaking point. There’s a certain soapy thrill in following the plot’s melodramatic twists and turns, but they culminate in an absurd finale. This is a disappointment. Agent: Meredith Miller, UTA. (May)