Netflix's New Murder Mystery The Stranger Is Your Next Crime Binge Watch

Rebecca Shepherd in Entertainment

Published 14:38, Friday 17 January 2020 GMT

Netflix has released the trailer for their upcoming thriller The Stranger which will land on the streaming service on 30 January and looks set to be a gripping watch.

It looks like fans of murder mystery will be happy with this new binge-worthy series that's based on Harlan Coben's best-selling novel which shares the same name.

The Stranger will follow Adam Price, a man who discovers a life-changing secret about his wife Corinne, which leaves him questioning everything he thought he knew about her.

When the dad-of-two is approached by a woman in a bar calling herself the stranger - complete with a shifty-looking baseball cap - he delves into his wife's secret life and ends up unravelling a conspiracy that could threaten to tear his whole family apart.

It's set to leave us asking: how well do we really know the people closest to us?

The official trailer opens with happy clips of the Price family on car trips and fooling around at home, before cutting to the stranger telling Adam: "You didn't have to stay with her you know."

The stranger then reveals Corinne's secret - that she was never pregnant and has lied to him.

"Who are you and why are you saying this?" Adam asks, to which she replies: "Think of me as a stranger. A stranger that knows."

The series stars Spooks actor Richard Armitage as Adam and Dervla Kirwan as his wife Corinne. Meanwhile, Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man and The Wasp) will play the main character, described by Netflix as 'a mysterious stranger who exposes people's secrets, dropping bombshells that will shatter lives'.

Alongside the A-list actors, TV favourite Jennifer Saunders (Absolutely Fabulous) will play the character of Heidi, best friend to Happy Valley's Siobhan Finneran, who plays DS Johanna Griffin.

Other actors to appear in the show are Paul Kaye (Game of Thrones), Anthony Head (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) and Kadiff Kirwan (Call the Midwife).

Fans are already excited, with one writing: "So Netflix has a new show called The Stranger and I noticed Hannah John-Kamen on sight. I wanted to see her again after her performance as Ghost in Ant-Man and now I can. Yippie".

The eight-part series was filmed around Manchester, Bolton and Stockport from March until August last year and it will land on Netflix on 30 January.

Netflix releases trailer for The Stranger starring Richard Armitage and Hannah John-Kamen

January 17, 2020 by Amie Cranswick 0 Comments

Netflix has released a poster and trailer for the upcoming TV adaptation of Harlan Coben’s The Stranger. The mystery thriller series stars Richard Armitage as Adam, a man living a charmed existence until a meeting with a stranger (Hannah John-Kamen) at a bar, who reveals a secret about his wife, turning his life upside down; take a look here…

Adam Price seems to have a charmed existence. Two wonderful sons, a career in law, and most of all, a watertight marriage to his soulmate, Corinne, a teacher at the local school.

Adam is living the dream. Until one night a STRANGER sits down next to him in a bar. “She lied, Adam. Corinne made it up, she was never pregnant… One more thing. If I were you, I’d run DNA checks on your two boys…” As quickly as the stranger came, she is gone. Adam tries going after her, but it’s too late. As the stranger’s words eat away at Adam, he begins to investigate his wife. To his horror, his greatest fears are realised. When Adam confronts Corinne with evidence that she faked a pregnancy, she flees, leaving only a text message:

The Stranger arrives on Netflix on January 30th and features a cast that includes Richard Armitage (Berlin Station), Siobhan Finneran (Happy Valley), Hannah John-Kamen (Ready Player One), Jennifer Saunders (Absolutely Fabulous), Anthony Head (The Split), and Dervla Kirwan (Strike Back).

Netflix's new thriller The Stranger releases first-look trailer with Buffy's Anthony Head and Richard Armitage

No secrets are safe.

By Stephanie Chase

17/01/2020

Netflix has released the first trailer for its new eight-part thriller The Stranger, starring Richard Armitage and Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Anthony Head.

Based on the novel by Harlan Coben, The Stranger stars Armitage as family man Adam Price, whose ideal life crumbles when a chance encounter with a mysterious woman in a diner entangles him in a conspiracy.

The trailer shows Adam sitting alone at a bar before he's confronted by a stranger (Ant-Man and the Wasp's Hannah John-Kamen) who tells him that his wife faked her pregnancy.

The revelation is only the beginning of Adam's troubles as he gets drawn into a world of intrigue and danger.

The miniseries also stars Downton Abbey's Siobhan Finneran as DS Johanna Griffin who will find her pragmatic approach to police work compromised when her investigation into the matter becomes deeply personal.

Jennifer Saunders takes on her biggest-ever dramatic role as Johanna's best friend Heidi, a bubbly adventure-seeker looking for some excitement now that her daughter has gone off to university.

The cast also includes Academy Award nominee Stephen Rea, Broadchurch's Shaun Dooley, Game of Thrones veteran Paul Kaye, Strike Back: Retribution's Dervla Kirwan and Black Mirror actor Kadiff Kirwan.

The Stranger will arrive on Netflix later this year.

"Ich schweige für Dich": Trailer zum Netflix-Thriller mit Richard Armitage

[Bernd Krannich] von Bernd Krannich in News national
(17.01.2020, 16.34 Uhr)

Neue Verfilmung eines Harlan-Coben-Romans

Am 30. Januar nimmt Netflix den neuen Thriller "Ich schweige für dich" ins Programm auf. Darin bringt eine Fremde das Leben des verheirateten zweifachen Vaters Adam Price (Richard Armitage) durcheinander - sie flüstert ihm ein Geheimnis seiner Frau ins Ohr.

Das ist der Ausgangspunkt der Serie, die auf dem Roman "The Stranger" von Harlan Coben beruht. "The Stranger" ist auch der Originaltitel der Serie (TV Wunschliste berichtete), während die deutsche Romanübersetzung auch den deutschen Serientitel vorgab.

Cobens Werke dienten zuletzt häufiger für Miniserien, darunter Netflix'
"Safe" sowie die britischen Serien "The Five" von Sky 1 und "The Four" von BBC one.

"Ich schweige für dich" nimmt definitiv einige Änderungen gegenüber der Romanvorlage vor. So verlegt sie die Handlung von den USA nach Großbritannien. Daneben ist aus dem Fremden die Fremde geworden - Hannah John-Kamen ("Killjoys") spielt den Part.


Der Trailer zeigt, dass Adam durch die Fremde erfährt, dass seine Frau Corinne (Dervla Kirwan) eine Schwangerschaft (die in einer Fehlgeburt geendet habe) nur vorgetäuscht hatte - mit dem Ziel, Adam auch weiterhin an sich zu binden. Mit dem Vorwurf konfrontiert enthüllt Corinne, dass "alles viel komplizierter" sei - und verschwindet später. Adam erfährt weitere verwirrende Neuigkeiten über sich und sein Leben, etwa dass er und seine Frau ja auch schon "länger Eheprobleme gehabt" hätten.

Und später auch, dass die verschwundene Corinne am Ort eines Mordes war, der von Johanna Griffin (Siobhan Finneran) untersucht wird. Wer ist die Fremde, und woher kennt sie die Geheimnisse anderer Leute? In welche Dinge war Corinne verstrickt? Und was ist Adams Rolle?

Weitere Hauptrollen haben Jacob Dudman, Brandon Fellows, Anthony Head, Paul Kaye, Stephen Rea und Kadiff Kirwan.

Eine deutschsprachige Reaktion auf den Trailer:

Ich könnte ja schreien, wenn ich den deutschen Titel der Serie lese. "Ich schweige für Dich" - Hallo? Warum denn eigentlich nicht "Die Fremde"???

Dummerweise heißt Cobens Roman auf dem deutschen Markt ja so... Wohlwollend könnte man meinen, es klingt nach Hitchcock, aber ich finde mich auch.. Pilcher/Sat1, ick hör Dir trapsen...