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  2. The Stranger is Netflix ’s new UK thriller, adapted by Danny Brocklehurst (Shameless, Exile) from the 2015 novel of the same name by crime mystery superstar Harlan Coben (The Five, Safe). It’s...

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    • The Stranger. Played by: Hannah John-Kamen. At the very start of episode one, ‘the Stranger’ follows Adam to his son’s football match and drops the news-bomb that his wife once faked a pregnancy.
    • Adam Price. Advertisement. Played by: Richard Armitage. Understandably gobsmacked following the news his wife had stitched him up with a fake baby, Adam is not a happy bunny at the start of The Stranger.
    • Corinne Price. Played by: Dervla Kirwan. Seemingly a psychopath (who fakes a pregnancy?!) , Corinne isn’t the most relatable character at the start of the series.
    • Johanna Griffin. Played by: Siobhan Finneran. One of the areas most dedicated police detectives, Johanna starts The Stranger as an unhappily-married maverick who doesn’t play by the rules.
    • The Book Is Set in America
    • The Stranger Is A Man with Four accomplices
    • No Alpacas Are Decapitated
    • Paul Kaye’s Character Has An Er, Different Name

    Not just in America, but all over America. The plots unfurl in various locations from the upscale Cedarfield area of the New Jersey suburbs where the Price family live, to the Ohio home of blackmail victim Heidi Dunn and police chief Johanna Griffin, to the lakeside Pennsylvanian garage out of which the Stranger and his crew operate. The UK series,...

    His name is Chris Taylor, a young man who became disillusioned working for the online Fake-A-Pregnancy company, so gathers together a group of like-minded people (Eduardo, Merton, Ingrid and Gabrielle – in the TV show, it’s just a female Chris and Ingrid, a couple who are saving to buy a beach bar in Hawaii. One of Ingrid’s pseudonyms is Gabrielle)...

    The entire Shameless-ish subplot involving teenagers Dante, Mike, Daisy, Thomas, the silent disco bonfire and the beheaded alpaca was an invention for the TV series, which gives the kids their own separate plot involving Dante ending up in a coma after a night of partying and Daisy’s sister Ella being cyber-bullied by her schoolfriend Olivia. Keepi...

    In the TV series, Johanna’s corrupt police colleague played by Paul Kaye is named John Katz. In the book, he’s an ex-cop (publicly disgraced after he used undue force on a black suspect, killed him and was forced to resign) called John Kuntz. Seeing how many times that surname is said aloud in the TV series, you can understand the change.

  3. Feb 6, 2020 · THE STRANGER is Netflix's new binge-worthy drama based on Harlan Coben's bestseller of the same title. But how different is the series from the book?

  4. A new binge-worthy show from Netflix is never too far away, and the latest series to fulfil that criteria is The Stranger – an eight-episode adaptation of Harlan Coben’s novel of the same...

  5. Feb 12, 2020 · We all love diving in to a binge-worthy Netflix series on an evening, or during a cosy Sunday afternoon. And what better to watch when you've got a spare couple of hours than an utterly gripping thriller/mystery, with twists and turns galore?

  6. The Stranger is an eight-part British mystery thriller miniseries written primarily by Danny Brocklehurst and based on the 2015 Harlan Coben novel of the same title. The miniseries premiered on Netflix on 30 January 2020.