The Stranger

Watch: The Stranger Season 1 Episode 1

S1 EP1

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8 episodes1 season

US Release

~ We all have secrets. ~

Overview:

A web of secrets sends family man Adam Price on a desperate quest to uncover the truth about the people closest to him.

Created by:

Harlan Coben

Status:

Ended

Language:

English

First air date:

1/30/2020

Last air date:

1/30/2020

Key words:

detective
based on novel or book
blackmail
miniseries
memory loss
drug use
intoxication
neighborhood
lies
sexting
high school american football
police women
secrets
suspenseful
british series

Seasons

Miniseries

8 Episodes

Cast

Richard Armitage

~ as ~

Adam Price

Siobhan Finneran

~ as ~

DS Johanna Griffin

Hannah John-Kamen

~ as ~

The Stranger

Jennifer Saunders

~ as ~

Heidi Doyle

Dervla Kirwan

~ as ~

Corinne Price

Jacob Dudman

~ as ~

Thomas Price

Kadiff Kirwan

~ as ~

DC Wesley Ross

Paul Kaye

~ as ~

Patrick Katz

Shaun Dooley

~ as ~

Doug Tripp

Brandon Fellows

~ as ~

Mike Tripp

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Reviews (1)

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Written 5 year(s) ago
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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.