Nine Perfect Strangers
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Wednesday, Aug. 18, Hulu
HOW MUCH WOULD you risk to soothe your deepest personal pain? In this suspenseful limited series based on Liane Moriarty’s bestselling 2018 novel, nine people from different worlds, all desperate to find happiness, put themselves in the hands of strange self-made guru Masha Dmitrichenko (a simultaneously ethereal and menacing Nicole Kidman). But her luxe, remote California healing retreat, Tranquillum House, demands more intense self-examination than they expected—and her treatment methods turn bizarre.
Or, as director Jonathan Levine says, “It gets pretty bats--t crazy.” Think screaming exercises and food deprivation. “Masha is weird, intense and magical,” he continues. Levine helmed all eight episodes, cowritten by hitmaker David E. Kelley, who adapted Moriarty’s Big Little Lies starring Kidman as well. The shoot, in…
