Nicole Kidman loves producing and starring inside initiatives primarily based upon Liane Moriarty’s works as govt produced by David E. Kelley. That a lot is apparent from the doable third season of HBO’s Huge Little Lies. Kidman and Kelley additionally collaborated upon HBO’s The Undoing (primarily based upon the thriller novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz), however for extra Moriarty, they hopped over to Hulu with 9 Excellent Strangers. This sequence debuted method again in August 2021 and, on the floor, resembled The White Lotus in that sinister happenings went down at a resort frequented by the privileged.
A second season was lastly greenlit in 2023, which is considerably shocking, given the complicated method (and purposefully so) that the primary season ended. Ambiguity gave the impression to be the secret, and let’s chat about what may come subsequent with a largely new forged.
Plot
Within the first season, Kidman was joined by Melissa McCarthy, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Shannon, Melvin Gregg, Regina Corridor, and Samara Weaving. The present revolved round sad, stressed-out characters who took their privileged selves to Tranquillum Home, the resort led by Kidman’s Russian guru, Masha. The misplaced souls sought her reinvigoration of thoughts, physique, and spirit, however therapeutic didn’t come simply. Masha was revealed to be removed from legit and drugged her friends with psychedelics for supposedly therapeutic functions. Add in a quite WTF ending, and the plenty flocked to the sequence, making it the most-watched sequence on Hulu on the time, even surpassing The Handmaid’s Story.
Because of these viewing numbers, the restricted sequence all of the sudden turned not-so restricted, and a second season ultimately landed within the playing cards, though actually, man, this will need to have been a tough present for which to dream up extra content material.
As the primary season finale revealed, the place every character ended up may or may not have been actual, and their fates may need been the work of Frances (McCarthy) in a e-book known as 9 Excellent Strangers. As for Masha, she had been arrested, though she was later proven driving down the freeway and sitting subsequent to her lifeless daughter. There have been additionally modifications from Moriarty’s e-book that included Masha’s earlier near-death expertise (within the present) being a results of getting shot by Carmel, who was in some way additionally on the resort together with her identification unnoticed till the top.
Every thing felt flat-out unpredictable, so the second season may go wherever, too. We may study that a lot of the first-season aftermath by no means occurred, and hell, maybe they’re all nonetheless taking medication or lifeless or dreaming. The one assure is that the second season needs to be equally or extra bonkers than what viewers have already seen.
Solid
Kidman is again as Masha regardless of the paradox of, properly, every little thing.
As The Hollywood Reporter just lately revealed, three new forged members — Henry Golding, Mark Robust and Lena Olin — signed on for the subsequent vaguely ominous wellness escape. They may be part of (as reported by Selection) Murray Bartlett, Annie Murphy, Dolly De Leon, Lucas Englander, Christine Baranski, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, and Aras Aydin.
Yep, Murray Bartlett has crossed over from The White Lotus to 9 Excellent Strangers. Will he poop in a suitcase? Maybe that’s a query greatest not answered.
Launch Date
The present’s renewal announcement was difficult by strike time in Hollywood, so this return may not occur till 2025.
Trailer
No trailer exists but, however right here’s a little bit of trivia from Kidman’s husband, Keith City, who revealed (to Kelly Clarkson) that she didn’t actually drop the character too simply, which gave him combined emotions.
