If a mix between Agatha Christie, Lost and The White Lotus sounds like your idea of TV heaven, this snowy Italian thriller could be your perfect Christmas binge watch.
Following a group of guests who become trapped in a luxury mountain resort after a natural disaster, Stranded sees dark secrets rise to the fore.
After first premiering in 2023, the eight-part series was hailed as ‘riveting’.
Now, after being made available to watch on Channel 4, UK viewers are re-discovering this hidden gem.
Stranded sees wealthy broker Giovanni, who has ties to a criminal organisation, trapped inside a ski resort on Christmas Eve after an avalanche hits.
An official synopsis for the series reads: ‘Recognising another guest linked to the secrets of his dark past, Giovanni realises his double life is about to unravel and only fate will decide who makes it out alive.’
In a three-star review for the series, The Guardian said: ‘We have a banquet of melodrama to feast on – a soapy melange of Agatha Christie, Lost and one of those cathartic sagas where rich people have a hellish time on a luxury holiday.’
Meanwhile, when it was first released in Italy, La Repubblica praised Stranded for it being a ‘hotbed of intrigue and mysteries’.
Vanity Fair Italy also added that the story ‘exceeds expectations’ with its ‘adrenaline-fuelled’ narrative.
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Throughout the series, after the guests become trapped, tangled relationships start to deteriorate further while Riccardo seeks help.
And if pacey foreign thrillers are your thing, Channel 4 seems to be the go to place for them.
The streaming service recently added a ‘deliciously dark’ foreign series to its streaming service for viewers in the UK.
The 2023 French-language show, For Better or Worse, which is now finally available in the UK, landed a high score on IMDb and secured the Best Foreign French Fiction Award at the La Rochelle Fiction Festival in 2022.
It sees a wife’s comfortable life ‘become a pressure cooker of fear’ when her husband is linked to a murder’.
This came after a Danish drama that was hailed as ‘one of the best in decades’.
Set in the 1920s, the show follows a Downton Abbey-esque Danish hotel on the North Sea coast as a microcosm of the upstairs-downstairs divide.
Stranded is available to watch on Channel 4.
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