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.

Strangers - John Simm (2018) - H.K.W.W Yuen Long R.G Filters Building, Yuen Long

The venue where Lau is taken by her kidnappers is an old Hong Kong Water Works facility on the Tuen Mun/Yuen Long district border. For some reason the "Yuen Long R.G. Filter" is no longer on the Film Services website despite their photos of it popping up when you do a Google search. Perhaps they have decided to rebuild it and so it is no longer available? Anyway, it looks like the interior was also filmed on location.

Strangers - John Simm (2018) - Container Port Road South, Stonecutter Island

After Lau has been kidnapped, her kidnapper is stopped by the police because his rear light is broken. Funny thing is though that this place is a dead end. This is the service road that runs underneath Stonecutters Bridge (you can see the bridge at the top of the image) and the car has basically just driven from the dead end by the sea wall when it is stopped. You can see where the road ends behind the car as it is turning. In the second image you can see how close this place is to one of the container terminals.

Strangers - John Simm (2018) - Hoi Chak Street, Quarry Bay

Jonah follows Sally when she leaves her hotel and spots who she is meeting up with along Hoi Chak Street in Quarry Bay. You can just see the square columns of the Kerry Centre in the back left of the second image.

Strangers - John Simm (2018) - Under Bridge Spicy Crab, Wanchai

At the start of Episode 7, the story moves to Mr Xo (played by Kenneth Tsang) who is the favourite candidate for the upcoming Chief Executive "election". Actually, the predetermined nature of the election is even hinted at by one of the characters later in the episode - so much like the real election charade that is undertaken in the real Hong Kong.

We see him eating dinner with his family at a place called Under Bridge Spicy Crab. It's a real place and looks like it has 3 closely clustered premises around Canal Road in Wanchai. The one on film is the one at 421-425 Lockhart Road.

Strangers - John Simm (2018) - The High Court, Central

The High Court in Central gets a brief appearance because one of the characters, Michael Cohen, the investigative journalist (played by Anthony Hayes), is in a tussle with his ex-wife over custody of their child. This shot looks like it was snapped sneakily from the fountain in the nearby Hong Kong Park.

Strangers - John Simm (2018) - Peel Street, Central

In another one of those travelogue style establishing shots, we get a rather nice view down one of Hong Kong's many steep streets. This one is Peel Street. The large building in the background in The Centre.