Shaken by the end of an exploitative affair, bestselling romance novelist Frances (Melissa McCarthy) is in crisis as her latest manuscript has just been rejected. More mystery surrounds what has brought Tranquillum’s latest cohort of guests here. Could her stalker be an aggrieved former client, or someone from her pre-guru past, or even one of the nine perfect strangers in her current cohort?įrameborder="0" allow="accelerometer autoplay clipboard-write encrypted-media gyroscope picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen> Now Masha is receiving anonymous death threats via SMS. We learn elliptically, through conversations between Masha and her loyal lieutenants Yao (Manny Jacinto) and Delilah (Tiffany Boone), that Tranquillum has previously attracted lawsuits. It’s a very earnest, character-driven mystery about the buried traumas and secrets that erupt at the cringily named Tranquillum House, through the unorthodox treatment protocols of enigmatic Russian wellness guru Masha (Kidman). Unlike The White Lotus, this is no class satire. Read: Five feel-good shows to watch this latest lockdown
(It is unsettling, however, to hear the character name ‘Carmel’ pronounced US-style as ‘car-MEL’.) And it performs the same trick of transposing an Australian story to a Californian setting. Mike White’s bitingly satirical comedy-drama The White Lotus has just aired its finale episode over on Binge, passing the baton to Nine Perfect Strangers, whose first three episodes premiere on Amazon this week.īased on Liane Moriarty’s bestselling novel, and lushly filmed in Byron Bay by Australian production company Made Up Stories, with a star-stuffed ensemble cast led by Nicole Kidman, Nine Perfect Strangers comes from the same creative team who adapted Moriarty’s Big Little Lies.
TV miniseries about idyllic resorts for the troubled rich are having something of a moment now, as we languish at home in lockdown.
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