Netflix’s greatest skill- apart from making bizarre Christmas movies about the Royal Family- is in crafting addictive Tv streaks that it’s impossible to stop watching. Binge-able box places burst out of the screen at you the moment after logging in to your profile, with new shows uploaded on a weekly basis.

The Stranger, adapted from best-selling author Harlan Coben’s mystery novel, is Netflix’s latest popcorn potboiler. And son, is it easy to get hooked on.

Transported from the book’s American setting to a small town in the UK, the reveal starts and ends with a simple perception: who is the titular stranger? When the baseball cap-clad young woman makes a shocking claim about his wife, family man Adam Price becomes caught in a puzzle as he urgently searches for answers.

Similarly, every character in this British-made drama has a secret, one that threatens to destroy each person’s life. We, of course, require good-for-nothing more than to find out what that secret is. So, let’s meet them, shall we?

The Stranger The StrangerHannah John-Kamen in’ The Stranger ‘. Credit: Netflix

Played by: Hannah John-Kamen

At the very start of episode one,’ the Stranger’ follows Adam to his son’s football match and puts the news-bomb that his wife formerly faked teenage pregnancies. Throughout the streak, she pops up, stimulating difficulty for just about everyone. But who is this meddling nobody? That’s the big question, but you’ll have to watch the prove to find out

What they say: “She is very strange- that’s what’s gripping about it. You’re very curious as an gathering representative[ meditating]’ who is she? Why is she doing this? ’ and that will be revealed in a really, really wonderful way as well. Not precisely’ thud! Here it is’. I’m elicited for everyone when they binge-watch it to see all of that .”- Hannah John-Kamen

Adam Price The StrangerRichard Armitage in’ The Stranger ‘. Credit: Netflix

Played by: Richard Armitage

Understandably gobsmacked following the news his wife had stitched him up with a forge child, Adam is not a joyful bunny at the start of The Stranger. Desperate for the truth, he rifles through age-old cartons of recognitions- ultrasound searches, old photos, keepsake greenbacks- before finally confronting his partner.

What they say: “I love the facts of the case that Adam isn’t a maverick of some kind- he is just an regular chap dealing with something stupid and sickening that has happened to him. I believe, as a viewer, actor and a reader, you put yourself in that situation and think,’ How would I greeting if that happened to me? ’ What if your partner went missing and how would you keep your family together? That was what interested me about it.”- Richard Armitage

Corinne Price The StrangerDervla Kirwan in’ The Stranger ‘. Credit: Netflix

Played by: Dervla Kirwan

Seemingly a sociopath( who forges teenage pregnancies ?!), Corinne isn’t the most relatable person at the start of the line. But that soon changes as we learn more about her. After all, if you were faced with the possibility of your family splitting apart at the seams, you’d do anything to keep it together more, wouldn’t you?

What they say: “[ Corinne] is the keeper of a tremendous secret. And as a lot of people will vouch in their lives, sometimes they do the right thing but unfortunately[ what she does] has big ramifications. From her perspective, she has done the right thing … but there’s this paradoxical character,’ the Stranger’, who has decided to infiltrate our lives, all our lives and decide that they have the moral high ground and liberates certain information to their nearest and dearest. She watches as their lives untangle. But I think we all are capable of telling white lies to lubricate “peoples lives”, are we not? ”- Dervla Kirwan

Johanna Griffin The StrangerSiobhan Finneran in’ The Stranger ‘. Credit: Netflix

Played by: Siobhan Finneran

One of the areas most dedicated police detectives, Johanna starts The Stranger as an unhappily-married maverick who doesn’t play by the rules. As one particularly strange case makes over her life, it becomes clear that the Stranger’s activities could affect everyone, even her.

What they say: “There were quite a lot of funny times on-set[ with Jennifer Saunders ], but we’d both “re under arrest” if we told you what actually happened. I want to tell you, but it’s such a pity. There was one awfully, extremely laughable experience, but we can’t talk to you about it, sorry.”- Johanna Griffin

Edgar Price The StrangerAnthony Head in’ The Stranger ‘. Credit: Netflix

Played by: Anthony Head

The estranged father-god of Adam, Anthony Head is a property developer with no morals. Haunted with coin- and women- this disreputable, ageing lothario will stop at nothing to get what he misses, even if it represents turfing an entire owned out of their homes and onto the streets.

What they say: “I play bad people quite often, I don’t know why, but I’ve always felt that nobody does up out of bed reckoning,’ I’m going to do something bad today.’ Ed Price is a narcissist mostly, and he actually opened my gazes to the world of narcissists, they are only do shit- and they enjoy fucking somebody over. I can’t defend him.”- Anthony Head

Martin Killane Stephen ReaStephen Rea in’ The Stranger ‘. Credit: Netflix

Played by: Stephen Rea

Martin is one of the unfortunate’ somebodys’ that Ed Price is trying to” fucking over “. A tenant on the very estate Ed wants to knock down and develop, this grumpy old git is not for turning. He refuses to sell up, but not for the reason you’d expect…

What they say: “I’m refusing to leave my house because of something that’s related to my mystery and as soon as I leave the house, shit will reach the devotee. At the start of the succession, it’s simply:’ He’s always lived there, why should he leave? ’ But later, it all changes.”- Stephen Rea

Heidi Jennifer SaundersJennifer Saunders in’ The Stranger ‘. Credit: Netflix

Played by: Jennifer Saunders

Serving, for the most part, as Johanna’s best friend, Heidi owns a small, cutesy-looking cafe in municipality. But as the succession progresses, even she is drawn into the peculiar happenings that pup much of the cast.

What they say: “This is[ my first drama character ]. I have thought about[ doing drama before ], but nobody else has you see, that’s the problem! It was put forward at the right time and it was too good to be true genuinely. I was watching[ the first episode] like this* extends noses *:’ Have I gone hitherto ?! No! ’ It was a learning curve. It’s different, I presume. But filming is filming, whether you’re doing a humor or a drama.”- Jennifer Saunders

Doug Tripp The StrangerRichard Armitage and Shaun Dooley in’ The Stranger ‘. Credit: Netflix

Played by: Shaun Dooley

In a macrocosm where trustworthy friends are hard to come by, you really need chums like salt-of-the-earth P.E. teacher Doug. Introduced as Adam and Corinne’s longtime neighbour, the grinning papa has a more complex character arc than you’d expect on first meeting.

What they say: “He’s not a sporty chap and he’s not very good at football either. So it was really funny[ during the football match vistum] and I tend to think I’m relatively good at football but I had to be turd for this. But I’m like a kid, I’m like a puppy with a chunk. I still reckon I’m 18 in my principal when I’m not. So I start out like,’ Come on !’ and then I’m knackered within about four paws. There was a lot of fun on this job.”- Shaun Dooley

‘The Stranger’ arrives on Netflix on January 31

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