Another two, including his sister, vanished the same night. Pawel Kopinski ( Grzegorz Damięcki) is a successful lawyer who is haunted by the events of 1994 when two kids were found murdered at the aforementioned summer camp where he was a chaperone. Much like Gone For Good, The Woods flashes between two different timelines: a 1994 summer camp in the woods and 2019 Warsaw. In the end, while it lacks some of the emotional impacts of later entries, The Stranger is a pure delight from start to finish. These bizarre, seemingly separate events are only the starting point of the 8-episode series, which continues its break-neck twist and turn spree until its final moments. Meanwhile, a local schoolboy and classmate of Price’s son is found lying naked in the woods, unconscious, prompting a police investigation that ties multiple storylines into one. The show follows Price's journey for the truth, as he pursues both his wife and the stranger who gave him the cryptic message. After he confronts his wife, she goes missing, leaving him more confused than ever before. When British suburban dad Adam Price ( Richard Armitage) is approached by a baseball-capped woman in her 20s ( Hannah-John Kamen), she tells him that his wife ( Dervla Kirwan) may have faked her miscarriages, and to get his children’s DNA tested.

The Stranger is pure, unadulterated Harlan Coben fun. The setting alone adds a fresh dynamic to the constant bait-and-switch of a Coben mystery. That being said, the show still serves up a healthy portion of episode-to-episode shockers and twists. This 5-part miniseries is a much more serious take on the Coben formula than most adaptations, focusing more on honest reactions than on pure shock value. A precarious series of coincidences link the two tragic days, bringing Guillaume and his best friend (who has his own demons to stave off), into the underworld of the riviera in search of his girlfriend, and ultimately, the truth. The episodes flash between present-day Nice, when Guillaume’s stunning girlfriend vanishes off the face of the earth, and Nice ten years ago when Guillaume’s ex-girlfriend and brother are shot and killed on the same night. Tackling the classic thematic material of Coben - lost loves, betrayals, family secrets - Gone For Good is the seductive tale of Guillaume ( Finnegan Oldfield), a social worker in the south of France.

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