Premiered: 1/30/2020
Season: 1 (and only)
Number of Episodes: 8
Length of Episode: 42 minutes
IMBd: 7.4
RT Critic's Consensus: If not quite as addicting as its source material, The Stranger has a strong cast and enough tension to keep viewers on the edge of their seats.
RT Audience Score: 83%
cag: Liked it a lot, binge watched in one day....
Produced by: Netflix
Characters: The Price family: Father Adam, Mother Corinne, Sons Thomas and Brian
The cops: Johanna Griffin and her inept (for the most part) sidekick, Wesley Ross
The bad guy: Cop & father, John Katz
The neighbors: Tripp and his son, Michael
The ex-cop who wouldn't sell or leave his condemned property: Martin Killaine (Stephen Rea)
Adam Price's unscrupulous father
Johanna Griffin's best friend and first to be murdered, Heidi
My comments: Harlan Coben never disappoints! This interesting story, with a multitude of side-events and happenings, kept me interested and enthralled. A few of the premises didn't quite work (why was Corinne so reluctant to inform Adam of what was going on, and her intense reaction didn't fit) and (why would Adam go so willingly with Tripp at the end AND why would Tripp tell all with Adam standing there with a gun) to mention just a couple. It's certainly the type of show that I enjoy, and I look forward to more of Coben's work, this one set in England.
Storyline from IMBd: Based on Harlan Coben's novel of the same name, the series will follow Adam Price, who seems to be living the perfect life - two great sons, a watertight marriage - until a stranger approaches him at a bar and reveals a shocking secret about Price's wife, Corinne.
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