It’s a case study of so-called Prestige TV parts – unencumbered length, overwrought performances, atmospheric tracking shots and ominous score masquerading as depth – amounting to a misfire, intriguing blocks with no alchemical glue. It’s got cult-ish vibes, a mysteriously inscrutable central figure in Kidman’s Russian-accented Masha, a lush locale (a spa retreat in California, though filmed in Byron Bay, Australia), a hot topic rich for skewering (wellness culture) and the perennial TV draw of miserable wealthy, mostly white people (as seen in the aforementioned Big Little Lies, The Undoing, Succession and The White Lotus).īut for all the promising elements the show amasses, Nine Perfect Strangers is curiously, thoroughly dull. The eight-part show comes with cable TV pedigree – created by David E Kelley (of HBO’s Big Little Lies and The Undoing), based on the 2018 book by Liane Moriarty (author of Big Little Lies’ source material), with a stacked cast including Nicole Kidman, Melissa McCarthy, Michael Shannon, Regina Hall and Bobby Cannavale, among others.
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