The Stranger

Europe has been swept by Harlan Coben. Six series since 2015. France, England, Poland. Not hard to see why. They're very propulsive, occasionally canny in plot with cute hooks and exploit contemporary anxieties about technology unearthing all our buried secrets and lies (meaning they don't have much to do with what there really is to be anxious about). This one ends with the kind of comically blunt statements of theme that do not bode well for creators' confidence in our supposed sophistication.

Don't get tricked by this one. It's a trap and a waste of time. The first few episodes are misleadingly good, but quickly a good story falls apart into utter nonsense. There are way too many convoluted, cliche plot twists that turn a promising suspense drama series into an absurd, nearly unwatchable melodrama. It's odd how it starts off relatively riveting, with decent character development, and nice cinematography, yet by the end I couldn't care less about any of it.

It was certainly interesting,but the plot is one of those storylines you can have in a book but stretches credibility a little on screen. Very close to collapsing under its own weight