At one point, during a trust exercise, Heather’s grief consumes her so much that she considers diving off a cliff. Melvin Gregg (above left) and Samara Weaving play married couple Ben and Jessica Chandler, who have mastered the façade of perfection.īoth families are experiencing emotional strains in their relationships. Michael Shannon (above right) and Asher Keddie (above center) play husband-and-wife Napoleon and Heather Marconi, who are at the wellness center with their daughter Zoe ( Grace Van Patten) after experiencing a loss. The Guests Aren’t All Strangers to Each Other And that’s so much what I think this show is about.”ģ.
So it’s like you’re already in the midst of being miserable and suffering, so make a change. “Doing the show made you think a lot about what you do to cover up your problems,” McCarthy said at TCA, adding that “at some point, you have to get it out. Melissa McCarthy’s Frances Welty is a novelist experiencing setbacks in her career and personal life. Regina Hall’s (pictured) Carmel Schneider is a divorcee who hopes things like losing weight will help her issues. The series discusses pain, but the emotional not what you’d find in a slasher flick. Still, he said, “We certainly were playing with the audience’s expectations and using genre as a vehicle to tell this story and to keep it compelling.” “But at the end of the day, even though we’re playing with those tropes, I think, for me, it was about character and about these beautiful people that you kind of empathize with and fall in love with.” “I certainly thought about horror and certainly thought about thrillers,” he said during the show’s Television Critics Association summer press tour panel.
Rotten Tomatoes spoke to the series cast and rounded up nine things you need to know about Nine Perfect Strangers before it premieres August 18.ĭespite the premise set up with that logline - “All is not well” - series director Jonathan Levine said this is a show that “really transcends genre.” But at what cost?Īs the characters and the audience begin to question Masha’s motives, the situation becomes complicated, and it grows harder for guests to leave Tranquillum House before check-out. Run by mysterious and ethereal Masha Dmitrichenko ( Nicole Kidman) and her minions including Yao ( Manny Jacinto) and Delilah ( Tiffany Boone), the resort offers the promise of restoration and healing. Nine Perfect Strangers, Hulu’s star-studded adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s novel, follows a group of people from various backgrounds who visit a wellness center called Tranquillum House for what they believe to be a 10-day restorative retreat.īut this is not a vacation they will soon forget.
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