The Stranger (2020) is een Britse misdaadserie te zien bij Netflix. De serie ging in première op 30 januari 2020.
Gebaseerd op Harlan Coben's boek met dezelfde naam. De serie volgt Adam Price die schijnbaar een perfect leven leidt - twee geweldige zoons, een rotsvast huwelijk - tot een vreemde hem in een bar benadert en een schokkend geheim over de vrouw van Price, Corinne, onthult.
I don't want to be forced to act recalcitrant here, but personally I don't understand the enthusiasm surrounding this series. Yes, at first glance, Harlan Coben's stories seem like an ingenious puzzle - which they might be - but if you think about it a little longer, the sum of the parts is actually completely ridiculous. Everyone in his series has an insane secret - this was already the case in The Five and Safe - and all those different storylines 'coincidentally' also work seamlessly together. It makes the whole thing rather unlikely and therefore - for me - completely unbelievable. I have never sat on the toilet at Coben's house, but I dare say with certainty that there is no tile with 'less is more' on the wall. In addition, I think cinematographically, it is also a 'cold' series. Compared to similar series from Scandinavia, The Stranger is more the detective equivalent of EastEnders. It is all quite basic and does not get really interesting or exciting in terms of filming. This latest Netflix Original lacks a bit of soul. To grinta. It's more of a mathematical formula dressed up as a series. A collection of connections without a heart. And we haven't even talked about that ridiculous ending. The great thing about series is of course that everyone has his or her own opinion, but if you give it a 9, The Bridge of The Killing should be worth 12.5.
Nice series, plenty going on. Sometimes it is inconvenient that another storyline or a new character is added, but all in all it is an edge-of-your-seat story. You can't make sense of it in the first episodes, but gradually everything becomes clear. The ending is surprising, but also a bit unbelievable. In any case, there are a number of events that are not entirely correct and for which there is no clear answer. Still, it is definitely worth watching this series.
I enjoyed watching The Stranger. The story is fine, but Harlan Coben is also entrusted with that. After all, he is a widely acclaimed crime writer. Good actors, pleasant pace, beautifully filmed and very exciting from time to time.