The Stranger (Miniseries, S1,E1-8; 2020)
A cleric politician in the Malaysian Parliament once called for the ruling country to impose stricter control on what children can access on their digital devices. He said that he currently kept on receiving X-rated messages on his phone and went on to rant about how easy it is to access porn online. He went on to say he shuddered to think what the inquisitive minds be up to.
Another politician from the opposite side saw this as a low-hanging fruit and decided to capitalise on it for brownie points. He seized the moment. The second politician tried to educate the first one that what appears on our digital devices is determined by our usage. The algorithm suggests what we should watch based on our previous consumption. In other words, the first politician must be an avid consumer of smut to be inundated with so many invitations to adult sites.
That is it. We think we know everything about the person sitting beside us or under the same roof. Wait for a rude awakening. The person you think you know may actually be a total stranger, managing an alternative life in an alternative universe with an alternative identity!
It may be true that it is pretty easy to lead a double life in this time and age. With so much emphasis and demand for privacy, even among close family members, one can get away with planning, executing and getting away with even murder. Everything is hidden under the cloak of secrecy and the Data Protection Act. So we think!
That is, until someone with the know-how, the access to and data of information, sounds and visuals. That, too, will depend on whose hands these data fall on. Fall into rogue hands, and it could be a source of a lucrative income to them.
This miniseries tells an exciting story involving three seemingly unrelated incidents. A schoolboy is found unconscious in the woods. A well-liked schoolteacher goes missing. She is later accused of mishandling her school football team's finances. And periodically, a stranger appears in places that would least expect her to be, to pass sensitive, deep secrets to people. Interesting 4/5.
It may be true that it is pretty easy to lead a double life in this time and age. With so much emphasis and demand for privacy, even among close family members, one can get away with planning, executing and getting away with even murder. Everything is hidden under the cloak of secrecy and the Data Protection Act. So we think!
That is, until someone with the know-how, the access to and data of information, sounds and visuals. That, too, will depend on whose hands these data fall on. Fall into rogue hands, and it could be a source of a lucrative income to them.
This miniseries tells an exciting story involving three seemingly unrelated incidents. A schoolboy is found unconscious in the woods. A well-liked schoolteacher goes missing. She is later accused of mishandling her school football team's finances. And periodically, a stranger appears in places that would least expect her to be, to pass sensitive, deep secrets to people. Interesting 4/5.