Expats

[Anonymous]

I’m watching the second episode right now and find NK looks much more normal. Maybe it’s because her hair is her own here, but she just looks… normal. And I love her yellow floral sundress. So cute!

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Anonymous wrote:I watched the first episode and will watch another but I'm annoyed that they are being so circumspect about what happened to Gus at this point. I don't like when every character knows key facts I don't know. Why? You don't have the hit me over the head with it but could you just tell me the central premise of the show in the first episode?

I don't care about the Kidman age/face issue anymore because she makes a lot of limited series like this and I've just accepted this is what she's doing and this is what she looks like while doing it. This is like the 5th show like this I've watched her in. It's fine. I actually think it is kind of similar to us all collectively pretending Tom Cruise isn't also super old. They've probably had similar amounts of work done and likely work equally hard at looking as well preserved as possible.

Sure.

But wouldn’t you think it’s weird if Tom Cruise played the father of a 4 year old?

Not even slightly. That's the sexist thing about all the 'Nicole is too old' comments.

It’s not sexist it’s biology. 60 year old men can have children, 60 year old women cannot. Shows are better when they are appropriately cast. The true story movie about the swimmer swimming from Cuba to Florida had excellent casting. She was supposed to be in her 60s and they cast 60 year olds. The other cast members looked like the real people on the crew. Casting is so important.

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There is absolutely no way I could continue living if this happened to me. It’s my worst nightmare.

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Wikipedia says the actress who plays Hilary is 48. I would have thought mid 30s. She looks great!

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Anonymous wrote:There is absolutely no way I could continue living if this happened to me. It’s my worst nightmare.

If you lost a child? Do you think you would have a choice?

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Anonymous wrote:There is absolutely no way I could continue living if this happened to me. It’s my worst nightmare.

You don’t know what you’d do. Especially if you had other children.

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Anonymous wrote:There is absolutely no way I could continue living if this happened to me. It’s my worst nightmare.

If you lost a child? Do you think you would have a choice?

Um, yes?

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Anonymous wrote:There is absolutely no way I could continue living if this happened to me. It’s my worst nightmare.

If you lost a child? Do you think you would have a choice?

Um, yes?

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And I have no idea how Mercy continues to live a normal life after that happened, either.

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Anonymous wrote:There is absolutely no way I could continue living if this happened to me. It’s my worst nightmare.

If you lost a child? Do you think you would have a choice?

Um, yes?

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And I have no idea how Mercy continues to live a normal life after that happened, either.

She's a train wreck

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Also in the book she is kind of overtly racist. She is freaked out by the culture and the food and the noise and the crowds. And her husband seemed whiter when they lived in the states. There is this whole sense that she is surrounded by this culture that she doesn’t understand and possibly dislikes.

That makes sense. I picked up on all of these in the show (her distaste for Asian culture), being out of sync with husband who has probably embraced his Asian heritage more so recently, etc).

I thought the scene with the nanny tossing the food was weird (and likely written by a white person) - what self respecting Asian would toss perfectly good ingredients like that?

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I like the review in the NYT today. It starts:

'“Prestige TV” is often synonymous with “show about rich people being sad,” and by that metric, “Expats” (Amazon Prime Video) is easily among the most prestigious shows. Early on, its silky misery feels hollow — trite, even — but over six episodes, that emptiness becomes less of a void and more of a vessel, holding elegant, complicated ideas about class, pain and mothering.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/arts/television/expats-nicole-kidman-amazon-video.html?searchResultPosition=2

I'm not a Kidman fan and don't really care about her plastic surgery, but I'm curious where the story is going, particularly since the Times review says the last two episodes are "stunning."

[Anonymous]

Reviews got good with episode 3 and to the end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm watching the first episode. It sounds like Nicole Kidman but I'm assuming she's had a lot of plastic surgery.

I was surprised. she's in her late 50s and playing someone who is likely much younger, at least 10 years judging by the age of her kids. I kind of appreciate that for once the woman isn't married to someone who is 20 years older than her in real life.

My question-what parts to I skip if I find child death/disappearance hard?

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56 is “late 50s”? Ok

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Anonymous wrote:I usually can't watch shows where young children are hurt, but I'm hoping there's an explanation that isn't completely horrifying. I'm hoping that the nanny stole him so at least he is with someone he loves.

Margaret was negligent. I would never in a million years let someone I just met be responsible for my young child in a setting like that. If they needed to split up, let Daisy handle the older kids.

And yes, Nicole Kidman looks like an alien.

Is that what happened in the book?

No. Spoiler alert if you don't want to know: Mercy gets pregnant by Hilary's husband, and both Hilary and Margaret go to the hospital to visit her when she has the baby. They never find Margaret's child.

Thank you -- not sure how mercy and have a normal motherhood after losing someone else's child, so that's. a twist/. And I knew that they never "find" margartets child--remember she wants to "go to the marketplace" like it's a habitual thing she does to just stand there- maybe where he was / will be last seen