[2] The story unfolds in two different time periods: August 1994 and September 2019.

In 2019, Warsaw prosecutor Paweł Kopiński is called upon to identify the body of a murder victim who was found with newspaper clippings about him.

In August 2018, Netflix signed a five-year contract to adapt fourteen crime novels by Harlan Coben.

[4] In December 2019, ATM Grupa announced that it had wrapped up filming of the series and that it would be released on Netflix in 2020.

[5] The Woods is the second Polish-language series made for the streaming platform and the fourth Netflix production created by Coben, following The Five, Safe, and The Stranger.