The Stranger

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The Stranger is an American crime thriller series. The events of the series take place in an unnamed English town. Adam, the father of the family, stayed to look after the sons while his wife is on a working trip. Once a stranger starts a conversation with him, who claims that she knows his wife's big secret. Adam tries to ignore her words, but the revealed truth begins to destroy his life from this moment. Simultaneously, police detectives begin to investigate strange incidents: a headless animal was found in the center of the city, and a teenager was found dying in the forest, who did not return home after a school party.

The events of the series become more severe and confusing with each episode.

The script for The Stranger is an adaptation of the book of the same name by Harlan Coben. In the writer's novel, the plot is set in America, but the showrunners of the series decided to adapt the story for England, adding a specific aesthetic.

The series draws attention to familiar faces. In The Stranger, an outstanding cast has gathered.

The restless husband, Adam, left alone with a dark family secret, is played by Richard Armitage, who played in the trilogy The Hobbit. Hannah John-Kamen played the stranger. Before that, she appeared in the films Ant-Man and the Wasp and Ready Player One, as well as in the TV series Game of Thrones. Anthony Head, who became famous thanks to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series, also appears in The Stranger.

In addition to the cast, the series Stranger lures with intrigue, scattered over several storylines with different generations. With each episode, more and more clues appear, but it only teases the viewer's curiosity, forcing to watch another episode.

Reviews

SierraKiloBravo wrote:

Click here for a video version of this review: https://youtu.be/ENXU2vvzKHQ _A stranger approaches Adam Price with a disturbing allegation about his wife, Corinne. Meanwhile detectives Johanna and Wes take on a bizarre case._ _The Stranger_ is an eight part Netflix series that promises mystery, suspense, and a twisting turning tale. So does it deliver on these promises? Not really. It certainly has promise, but is let down by bland lead characters, plot lines that literally go nowhere, and acting that would be very much at home in a daytime soap. It was not unlike a very long episode of _Eastenders_ in parts. It takes too long to start explaining things, and by episode 6 we were starting to want to have some info instead of more and more being added to still as yet unexplained storylines. This all leads up to a rushed final episode that did not stick the landing. It was very anticlimactic, and so many threads and things that took up a lot of the run time in the end remained unresolved and had nothing to do with the conclusion. And I am not even exaggerating when I say they had nothing to do with the ending. You could literally fast forward every scene with the teens and it will have no effect on the end product, it’s unnecessary and unconnected to everything, despite being set up as looking like a main storyline. It was far from it, you could have deleted their parts and made the run time much shorter. Not even fantastic actors like Siobhan Finnerhan and that guy from _The Crying Game_ can lift this, because everyone around them is empty and unconvincing in their roles, and they are wrapped up in a story where the things that happen are wayyyy over the top and unjustified in comparison to the event that triggered everything. We were left scratching our heads. It’s an okay series, but is not much more than a background filler show while you wait for more episodes of _Ozark_ to be made.