Who is she? And how can she save her? While pondering those questions and desperately trying to form a plan, Darby realizes every decision from then on might not only cost the life of the mysterious child held hostage in the van, but also her own. That’s when she makes a horrifying discovery: through the window of one of the strangers’ vans, she spots a little girl, bound and gagged inside a dog crate. With only some poorly-stocked vending machines and stale coffee to keep them company, Darby eventually gets restless of the idle chit-chat and heads out to the parking lot to see if she can get any cell service. But when the snow finally gets the best of her beat-up Honda, she’s forced to wait out the storm in a remote highway rest stop with a small group of fellow travelers: Lars, Ashley, Ed, and Sandi. If you haven’t read the book, No Exit kicks off with pint-sized, reformed party girl Darby Thorne driving through a treacherous blizzard in the remote mountain roads of Colorado on her way home from art school to see her dying mother. But does it have a very Made For TV vibe going on? Yes, yes it does. 25 to see how the movie version treated the source material.

Since I was - and admittedly still am - obsessed with Adams’ novel, I made sure to find myself glued to my couch on Feb. The book gods must’ve been looking out for me, y’know? And, as luck would have it, I discovered that Hulu’s film adaptation of No Exit was actually being released just a week later. Despite this, I let it languish on my TBR pile for far, far too long, until recently I finally picked it up during Target’s recent buy-2-get-1 sale (doing the Lord’s work there, Tarjay) and had my mind promptly blown by the riveting story of a woman trapped in a rest stop during a blizzard with an unknown kidnapper. Pretty much since the moment Taylor Adams’ thriller No Exit was published in 2017, I’d heard rave reviews from every corner of the internet.

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