The Strays ending explained: A full circle, once again
Henry Morales
Published Jan 22, 2026
The Wanderers debuted on Netflix on February 22, 2023, uniting an intriguing story, a contributed cast, and a ton of racial and class discourse, very much like one more known hit, Get Out.
In spite of this new film neglecting to stir things up around town like Jordan Peele’s show-stopper, it had a lot to say all alone. It was the presentation component of entertainer and dramatist Nathaniel Martello-White.
The English film revolved around Neve (Ashley Madekwe), a fair looking individual of color who abandoned her family and previous lifestyle to begin another one with her significant other Ian (Justin Salinger), and teen youngsters, Sebastian (Samuel Little) and Mary (Maria Almeida).
Be that as it may, her life is interfered with when two secretive figures from her past show up. The whole film was strangely positioned with a few points of view and a great deal of stories.
The Wanderers prepared for the completion after the point of view switch, which investigated the story through the eyes of Marvin (Jorden Myrie) and Abigail (Bukky Bakray). It was uncovered during the celebration that Marvin and Abigail were Neve’s youngsters from her past marriage, the ones she deserted to begin another life.
After the showdown at the function, she made sense of that she left her previous lifestyle behind due to her ex, who was oppressive and risky. At the point when she told this to Carl and Dione, they were not happy with the response.
She attempted to pay them off by offering £20,000, thus carrying out the error that would ultimately prompt the awkward finale.
Several evenings after the occasion, Marvin and Abigail broke into Neve’s home and took their telephones, incapacitated them, and began to flood the kitchen. This starts the circle of torturing that finished in Ian’s demise after Marvin constrained him to do benchpresses until he was unable to take it any longer.
Before that, Marvin and Abigail constrained the whole family to sit with them and play a prepackaged game while they likewise requested supper. This actually awkward scene was maybe Marvin and Abigail’s reaction to not having the family that they merited.
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Ashley Madekwe and Bukky Bakray star in this psychological thriller in which the past threatens to disrupt a woman’s perfectly crafted suburban life…
— Netflix UK & Ireland (@NetflixUK) February 22, 2023
Nonetheless, when the food showed up, Neve saw her opportunity and unobtrusively slipped away on the guise of getting the conveyance. She took her risk and took off with the conveyance fellow, forsaking her other two youngsters behind also. This finished an ideal circle as Neve wound up similarly that she started her story.
In the mean time, the wanderers developed from two to four. The last scene of The Wanderers was additionally its generally muddled one, with long practices and confounded acting exhibitions.
“It was an extremely lengthy scene – it’s very nearly 20 minutes that scene,…And we practiced it like a play, we had two days of practices, in addition to the entertainers yet the entirety of the team, so the parts were all there for our practice. Furthermore, it was so useful in light of the fact that it implied that when it arrived at those shooting days, it was very nearly a fine-oiled machine.”