Found (TV series)

Found is a drama series focused on a team, led by lead character Gabi Mosely, who specialise in finding missing people. Many of their cases involve finding marginalised people who are overlooked by the police and media. 
==Canon==
Gabi Mosely, a PR specialist, heads up a crisis management team who work to bring home missing people from marginalised groups. Her team consists of Margaret Reed, Lacey Quinn, Zeke Wallace, and Dhan Rana. All members of the team have experienced trauma relating to either going missing or being kidnapped themselves, or having a family member go missing. So, in addition to the story-lines focusing on the cases they take on each week, the different ways trauma continues to affect each team members plays a key role in episodes and character development. Gabi started the entire team because she was a missing person, overlooked by the system and the media, and who eventually rescued herself and Lacey from their kidnapper.
The second twist and ongoing story-line is that in the last year, Gabi tracked down her kidnapper – Hugh Evans, who is referred to as "Sir" in the show and by the fandom – who evaded the police for many years and it is revealed at the end of episode one that she currently has him chained up in her basement, where she uses him for his insight into the minds of kidnappers and predators. The audience learn later that Dhan tracked Evans down for Gabi, though he didn't know what she did with him; when she didn't turn him into the police, Dhan assumed she killed him and kept her secret.
At the end of season one, Evans breaks out of the basement and Gabi tells her team about him and what she did, which ends with the entire team distraught and estranged from one another. Season two is focused on this fracturing amongst the team; what Evans does to the team in his pursuit of bringing Gabi back to him; new evidence to suggest Evans has and accomplice; and an increasingly fraught relationship with the police force and the primary contact the team has there, Mark Trent. 
==Fandom==
The show has a considerable fandom on Tumblr and Twitter, with active episode discussions in the week of each episode airing, sharing of GIF sets, and theorising about the overarching story-lines that could be to come; the show has consistently provided topics for fans to theorise over across the episodes to date. Fans also frequently discuss how the show demonstrates the long-lasting and different ways that trauma impacts a person without the writing shaming any of the characters for their actionsladydedlock post on Tumblr, 15 October 2023, Archived Version.
In addition, many fans are fascinated by the interactions and history between Gabi and her former kidnapper, Hugh Evans. Throughout the first season, it is revealed that he was Gabi's teacher at school, explaining the "Sir" used in place of his name by the show and fandom, before he kidnapped her and held her for over a year. The dark relationship between the pair has been likened by some fans to the relationship between Malcolm Bright and his father in Prodigal Son (TV series), while parallels have also been drawn to Hannibal fandom with the show developing a dark romance fan-base around it.
Some Black fans have voiced their enthusiasm for a show with a Black female lead who is arguably a morally grey character (and certainly a morally complex character), and which leans into the darker aspects of the story-lineIneye Komonibo, 'Shanola Hampton & Mark-Paul Gosselaar’s Chemistry In Found Series Is Riveting (& Uncomfortable)', Refinery29, 12 October 2023.
Episode "Wrestling with Demons" by the Black Girl Charmed podcast..
A microfandom has also grown on Archive of Our Own, with the majority of the works exploring the relationship dynamics between Gabi and Sir, most often with the Gabi Mosely & Hugh "Sir" Evans pairing. 
Other pairings which receive some fannish focus are the – often one-side from Sir towards Gabi – pairing Gabi Mosely/Hugh "Sir" Evans which is popular amongst dark romance fans of the show; the canonical relationship of Gabi Mosely/Mark Trent; platonic pairings between members of the team; and, largely on Tumblr, Dhan Rana/Zeke Wallace. 
=== Controversy ===
There has been some criticism about parts of the fandom, with some people voicing disgust that there are people who explore the Gabi Mosely/Hugh "Sir" Evans pairing from a dark romance angle.; Those who explore the pairing are often referred to negatively on Twitter and this backlash may play a role in why a notable proportion of the small number of fanworks on AO3 are posted anonymously. 
===Common Tropes and Fanon===
* Angst - Given the canonical backstories of the characters, unsurprisingly angst plays a big role in many fanworks.
* Manipulation - The character of Hugh "Sir" Evans is particularly manipulative, and the audience is also left uncertain about which events are true or not in the show. While the show only gives brief insights into Hugh's manipulation, fanworks explore these in greater depth.
==Notable Fanworks==
===Fics===
* Haunted by Anonymous - "Why did you never touch me?" It was a question that had been circling her head for 20 years, one that she had never intended to voice.
* any port in a storm by Anonymous - "Who did this?" She can see the wheels turning. He's already trying to calculate how he'll reach out from this jail cell to destroy her attacker.
* The Man in the Chair by etherealnoir - Dhan likes talking to Zeke. And he hates that he likes it so much. But he'd never tell Zeke that. 
===Arts===
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===Vids===
* i'm just so scared you're who i'll be by liz<3
*most interesting dynamic on the whole show i fear. by .siasrvnes
*not my normal content but I need Trent to hurry up and forgive her by monexbxnkz
===Meta===
* What if Sir isn't actually in the basement? by nogoodninny
* Theories and Predictions by nawjuhh on TikTok
==Archives & Fannish Links==
===Archives===
* Found (TV 2023) fandom tag on Archive of our Own
===Communities===
* Found NBC tag on Tumblr
* Found subreddit
* NBC Found tag at TikTok
*Found discussion thread at Fan Forum
==References==
Category:Fandoms by Source Text
Category:Live-action Television