Need Something to Binge? Stephen King Recommends Netflix’s Excellent & Addictive Mystery Series THE STRANGER
Stuck inside? Need a new series to binge-watch? Well, Stephen King recommends Netflix’s British mystery thriller miniseries The Stranger with Richard Armitage, Siobhan Finneran, Jennifer Saunders, and Hannah John-Kamen.
He tweets:
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Written by Danny Brocklehurst, the series is based on the Harlan Coben novel of the same title.
It centers on a mysterious stranger who tells a man a secret that has a devastating impact on his seemingly perfect life. This Stranger is a woman in her mid-20s with a baseball cap and is learned to be correlated with more secrets as the series progresses. This secret affects the man’s wife who goes missing as a result.
The 8-episode series sports an 86% approval rating over on Rotten Tomatoes with a Critics Consensus that reads: 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.
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The Stranger was created by Harlan Coben based on his book. Daniel O’Hara and Hannah Quinn directed the 8-episode series which stars Richard Armitage, Siobhan Finneran, Jennifer Saunders, Shaun Dooley, Paul Kaye, Dervla Kirwan, Kadiff Kirwan, Jacob Dudman, Ella-Rae Smith, Brandon Fellows, Misha Handley, Anthony Head, Hannah John-Kamen, and Stephen Rea. Executive producers are Danny Brocklehurst, Harlan Coben, Richard Fee, and Nicola Shindler.
It hit Netflix back on January 30, 2020.
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