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• Shanola Hampton as Gabrielle "Gabi" Mosely, a former kidnapping victim who manages a crisis management firm named Mosely & Associates (M&A) that specializes in finding people who have been abducted that no one is looking for. 20 years after her kidnapping she abducted her kidnapper, Sir, and held him captive in her basement to get into the minds of kidnappers and understand their patterns.
• Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Hugh Evans (Sir), a serial kidnapper who kidnapped Gabrielle (Gabi) for one year and eight days. When Gabi escaped the day Sir abducted Bella, Sir disappeared and evaded police for 20 years. Then Sir was abducted by Gabrielle, who locked him in her basement and used him to help solve some of her missing persons cases.
• Kelli Williams as Margaret Reed, an associate investigator at Mosely and Associates (M&A). She has excellent deductive reasoning skills she obtained while looking for her missing son Jamie, who was abducted from a bus station 13 years before, and she spends every night at the bus station trying to find her son or evidence of his abduction.
• Brett Dalton as Detective Mark Trent, a DC detective and Gabi's police liaison.
• Gabrielle Walsh as Lacey Quinn (Bella), a law school student who works at M&A as an intern. She was also kidnapped by Sir when she was a kid. After Gabi and Bella escaped, Bella changed her name to Lacey.
• Arlen Escarpeta as Zeke Wallace, a tech expert whose own past experience of being abducted as a child has given him a debilitating case of agoraphobia. He provides Gabi with surveillance and hacking techniques 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, who is a mental health professional.

Recurring

• Dionne Gipson as a character who is close to Gabi (season 2).^[3]

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.^[18] 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.^[19] On July 20, 2022, it was announced that NBC officially ordered the series. Greg Berlanti serves as an executive producer.^[20] On November 29, 2023, NBC renewed the series for a second season^[21] that will have 22 episodes.^[22]

Casting

On March 2, 2022, it was announced that Shanola Hampton would be starring in the pilot in the role of Gabi Mosely.^[23] On April 29, 2022, it was announced Mark-Paul Gosselaar had joined the cast as Sir.^[24] On May 18, 2022, Kelli Williams joined the cast.^[25] On July 20, 2022, alongside the series order, it was announced that Arlen Escarpeta, Brett Dalton, Gabrielle Walsh and Karan Oberoi were all cast.^[20]

Filming

After the show was ordered to series, the rest of the first season began shooting in October 2022^[26] and wrapped in March 2023.^[27] The first season of the series was filmed in Atlanta, Georgia, and consists of 13 episodes.^[28] Filming on the second season started at early March 2024.^[29]

Music

On September 13, 2023, it was announced that Sherri Chung would compose the show's score.^[30]

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.^[34]

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."^[4] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 49 out of 100 based on 6 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[35]

Accolades

At the 35th GLAAD Media Awards, Found was nominated for Outstanding New TV Series.^[36] 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.^[37]