Strangers - John Simm (2018) - Ngong Ping Village, Lantau Island

In the last post from Strangers (well, there are a couple of key locations that I haven't been able to find yet), the final Hong Kong scene in the last episode (Episode 8) was filmed at Ngong Ping village on Lantau. Obviously the first image is part of the Po Lin Monastery complex. The second image is where the scene was shot and is a small ornamental circular viewing point near to the cable car station.

Strangers - John Simm (2018) - Sham Tseng Sewage Treatment Works, Tsuen Wan

We get a much better view of the area in front of the "Kowloon Remand Centre" in Episode 8. Jonah goes there to visit the person responsible for all the murders and then meets up with Lau who wants to hang out until Jonah catches his flight back to the UK later that evening.

The area they are looking out to in the bottom image is the strip of sea between Lantau Island and the New Territories mainland (off screen to the right). Usually you would expect to see a plane preparing to land at the airport in the distance (approaching from the east) but I guess they timed the shot to avoid them.

Strangers - John Simm (2018) - Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park, Sai Ying Pun

As just mentioned, although we are initially given a shot of Victoria park, the actual dialogue scene was filmed a couple of miles away at Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park in Sai Ying Pun. This includes the meeting between Cohen and his wife as well as the subsequent meeting between Cohen and Jonah.

Strangers - John Simm (2018) - Victoria Park, Wanchai

The scene where Michael Cohen (the journalist) meets his ex-wife to strike a deal over child custody starts off with an establishing shot of Victoria park. You can see Central Library in the background. This is a bit strange because the actual meeting occurs elsewhere.

Strangers - John Simm (2018) - Luk Ming Street, Ma Tau Kok

Just a very short walk from the Freder Centre (the original police station location), in fact directly opposite, is a small estate of 12 tenement blocks built between 1959 - 61. I'm not sure if the estate has a name but each block is separated from the next one by a small street. In this scene when Jonah is on the phone to his sister back in the UK, he is walking down one of these streets - Luk Ming Street. The low red roofed buildings behind him are the Cattle Depot Artists Village buildings.

The next part of the sequence shows him sitting at a cafe at the eastern end of the estate along Ma Tau Kok Road. Just behind Jonah's back is Hok Ling Street.

Strangers - John Simm (2018) - Siu Lang Shui Road, Tuen Mun

Well, it seems that what goes around comes around and for this first location on the eighth and last episode we have returned back to a location not seen since episode 1. This is Siu Lang Shui Road in Tuen Mun and is the same place where Jonah and David's wife was killed in the first episode.

I suspect it was all shot in one day as this isn't the most convenient place to get to. Anyway, following their run in with the gunman, Jonah and Lau escape in the car and stop off to take in what has just happened. The large structure behind the trees on the right is one of the circular water tanks seen in the aerial shot of the episode 1 post I just linked to. The structure poking up behind the hill in the background is one of the chimneys of the Castle Peak Power Station.