The Stranger on netflix

[Anonymous]

Wouldn’t Adam have known Martin’s daughter if they all grew up in that neighborhood together? So many plot holes.

[Anonymous]

I thought it was great!

SPOILER QUESTION:

I thought Doug said during his final confession that he did not hire the detective agency. So who did? I guess it doesn't really matter if it was technically Doug or Bob, since they were working together to expose the thief. But is there some other twist of who hired the detective agency (The Stranger) that I missed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn’t Adam have known Martin’s daughter if they all grew up in that neighborhood together? So many plot holes.

+1 huge huge hole. and I think it was Bob (coach) who hired the Stranger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn’t Adam have known Martin’s daughter if they all grew up in that neighborhood together? So many plot holes.

Yes but she was a lot younger than him. She was also beautiful but an awful, awful actress. So miscast.

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Anonymous wrote:Wouldn’t Adam have known Martin’s daughter if they all grew up in that neighborhood together? So many plot holes.

+1 huge huge hole. and I think it was Bob (coach) who hired the Stranger.

Yes, I think when Adam confronted him, Bob admits that he hired her to investigate Corinne since he suspected her of stealing the money. I still don’t understand why Corinne tells Adam that there was “so much more” to her faked pregnancy... like what? Didn’t she fake it just to keep Adam from leaving her? It did have anything do with the stolen money, right?

This show could have been so much better. Too many competing storylines, like the really stupid one with the kids, the rave, and the alpaca. DUMB.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn’t Adam have known Martin’s daughter if they all grew up in that neighborhood together? So many plot holes.

+1 huge huge hole. and I think it was Bob (coach) who hired the Stranger.

Yes, I think when Adam confronted him, Bob admits that he hired her to investigate Corinne since he suspected her of stealing the money. I still don’t understand why Corinne tells Adam that there was “so much more” to her faked pregnancy... like what? Didn’t she fake it just to keep Adam from leaving her? It did have anything do with the stolen money, right?

This show could have been so much better. Too many competing storylines, like the really stupid one with the kids, the rave, and the alpaca. DUMB.

you're right the "so much more" line was a total red herring.

[Anonymous]

I thought the "so much more" line meant hey buddy, I know about your affair but I let you have that secret, and you're going to bust me and act self-righteous about my secret?

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Anonymous wrote:Wouldn’t Adam have known Martin’s daughter if they all grew up in that neighborhood together? So many plot holes.

Yes but she was a lot younger than him. She was also beautiful but an awful, awful actress. So miscast.

She was a HORRIBLE actress. And frankly, I had a hard time even looking at her. There’s was something about her that was annoying as hell.

[Anonymous]

So many loose ends never got tied up or explained. Like PP above said, what more was there to Corinne’s fake pregnancy? Or, the alpaca? Or, the fact that I’m still unclear on why Katz killed Heidi. What was the point of the mom poisoning Olivia?? Why would Trip bring Corinne’s husband all the way to the woods to show him her dead body. What was the point in that? Did Trip think Adam would understand and not pursue him?? WAY too much going on.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG, I am so disappointed. The ending was ridiculous. Also, the man (Martin?) who Adam was representing - didn’t he say he had raised a SON??? No mention of a daughter. It just made no sense.

No-he says child, toddler, Chris-but never son or daughter.

And at one point Adam makes a statement about Martin's child and uses "they/their" as a pronoun, which was inconsistent with his pronoun use before -- the gender of Martin's child shouldn't have been unknown to him at that point. I was actually wondering if Martin's child was transgender and Adam was aware of that.

Adam not recognizing Chris would have made sense because she was a lot younger than he was, but that also seems to be inconsistent with Chris being Adam's father's child, since if Adam's father was still near by, wouldn't Adam be kind of around? Or were he and his father estranged at that point?

One thing I did like about the show was that it was diverse -- there were characters that were of African/Caribbean/Asian descent without their ethnicity being part of the story. That type of representation doesn't tend to happen in US shows, and if it does, it's one or two characters, not a third of the cast.

I binged it while home sick, it was perfect for that, because I wasn't thinking too hard about it, nor did I have too long to think about it.

[Anonymous]

PP here

What did strike me as interesting was how the murders in the show all came down to a man's rage over poor behavior a woman was calling him out on...because even Martin admits that he was a crap husband, so I imagine he was even worse than he said he was.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn’t Adam have known Martin’s daughter if they all grew up in that neighborhood together? So many plot holes.

Yes but she was a lot younger than him. She was also beautiful but an awful, awful actress. So miscast.

She was a HORRIBLE actress. And frankly, I had a hard time even looking at her. There’s was something about her that was annoying as hell.

I think it was because she really only had one facial expression - the wide-eyed innocent look.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG, I am so disappointed. The ending was ridiculous. Also, the man (Martin?) who Adam was representing - didn’t he say he had raised a SON??? No mention of a daughter. It just made no sense.

No-he says child, toddler, Chris-but never son or daughter.

And at one point Adam makes a statement about Martin's child and uses "they/their" as a pronoun, which was inconsistent with his pronoun use before -- the gender of Martin's child shouldn't have been unknown to him at that point. I was actually wondering if Martin's child was transgender and Adam was aware of that.

Adam not recognizing Chris would have made sense because she was a lot younger than he was, but that also seems to be inconsistent with Chris being Adam's father's child, since if Adam's father was still near by, wouldn't Adam be kind of around? Or were he and his father estranged at that point?

One thing I did like about the show was that it was diverse -- there were characters that were of African/Caribbean/Asian descent without their ethnicity being part of the story. That type of representation doesn't tend to happen in US shows, and if it does, it's one or two characters, not a third of the cast.


I binged it while home sick, it was perfect for that, because I wasn't thinking too hard about it, nor did I have too long to think about it.

I absolutely love this about British shows, the diversity of the cast and how it just feels so normal. It really isn’t like that on American TV, unfortunately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So many loose ends never got tied up or explained. Like PP above said, what more was there to Corinne’s fake pregnancy? Or, the alpaca? Or, the fact that I’m still unclear on why Katz killed Heidi. What was the point of the mom poisoning Olivia?? Why would Trip bring Corinne’s husband all the way to the woods to show him her dead body. What was the point in that? Did Trip think Adam would understand and not pursue him?? WAY too much going on.

SO many loose ends. It annoys me that I invested all this time in a show that, in retrospect, took a bunch of unrelated plot lines and just threw them all together. Katz killed Heidi because he realized she was Joanna’s best friend and thus would be able to easily identify him if he let her live. Joanna showed him a picture of Heidi on her phone when she was telling him about plans to take a trip with “her best friend” - Heidi. I could never figure out how Katz knew to go see Heidi in the first place. It all seemed so random.

Katz’s ex-wife was poisoning Olivia because she had Munchausen’s by proxy - a storyline that had absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the show, other than to show how “sick” Olivia was and why Katz was frantically trying to make some extra money, to pay for her medical care. And now that I think about it, to show that Katz killing Heidi, or even interrogating her at all, would have been completely unnecessary had his ex-wife not been poisoning his daughter and making her sick in the first place. So I guess there was a reason behind that story.

As for Tripp, I have no earthly idea why he decided to take Adam out to the woods where Corinne was buried, unless he was also planning killing Adam out there. I do know that Tripp was incredibly hard to look at. Ugh.

The nonsense with the kids was just so stupid, especially the alpaca head, etc.

[Anonymous]

One thing I did like about the show was that it was diverse -- there were characters that were of African/Caribbean/Asian descent without their ethnicity being part of the story. That type of representation doesn't tend to happen in US shows, and if it does, it's one or two characters, not a third of the cast.

I noticed this too! It actually made me look up UK demographics. 2.3% of British folks are of African descent — this show had me thinking it was more like 20%! I guess over representation is far better than underrepresentation.