Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 10:38     Subject: Expats
I hate both mercy and david, but I wonder if they kind of deserve each other? Two garbage people making a baby... But also, could be her ticket out of poverty.

I thought the episode/show was about "mothers".
-Becoming a mom
-Losing your identity to being a mom
-Dealing with your own mom
-Not wanting to be a mom
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 08:07     Subject: Expats
Anonymous wrote:That last episode was so boring to me. I like Nicole Kidman's dh, she is tolerable as well. Too much focus on Hilary, her dh and Mercy who are so dry and boring. Hilary and her shit mom should have stayed stuck in that elevator forever.


LOL. So many vile characters. On purpose.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 08:00     Subject: Expats
That last episode was so boring to me. I like Nicole Kidman's dh, she is tolerable as well. Too much focus on Hilary, her dh and Mercy who are so dry and boring. Hilary and her shit mom should have stayed stuck in that elevator forever.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 07:52     Subject: Expats
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s Hong Kong. That was UK


What?


Are you serious? Hong Kong was British until 1997, and English the only official language until 1978, and after that one of the two. So that people expect most folk to speak English isn’t off the mark. How do you not know that?!


DP. Could you possibly be more unpleasant? Pretty sure we’re all well aware of the UK history in Hong Kong. 🙄🙄 Doesn’t change the fact that the VAST majority of people there only speak Cantonese. How do YOU not know that?!


This isn’t true. Cantonese is the predominant first language by far, but most Hong Kongers speak English as well, many at a native or near native level.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2024 23:53     Subject: Expats
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s Hong Kong. That was UK


What?


Are you serious? Hong Kong was British until 1997, and English the only official language until 1978, and after that one of the two. So that people expect most folk to speak English isn’t off the mark. How do you not know that?!


USA public school K-12.

plus now history class is taught thematically: Find the social in justices and write about them. Immigration, revolutions, human rights, education.

and never mind that most asian countries have mandatory english class each year starting at age 4.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2024 23:50     Subject: Expats
Anonymous wrote:I really enjoyed the woman with the short platinum hair in the elevator. She dealt with Hilary and her mom's weird drama well and I thought it was funny when it turned out she was the first expat on the show who actually spoke Chinese.


Yeah, stuck in an elevator with a mean older women who can't stop chiding and insulting her own adult daughter.
Then plays the victim when the adult daughter discloses the real underlying issue of the mom's toxic game. OOOOOh, we're not allowed to talk about that...
Meanwhile, blond lady drops she's late for something important, needs to see her husband, is used to playing referee - and no one let's her talk.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2024 23:48     Subject: Expats
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I couldn’t tell some of the people apart. But did Hilary’s husband have an affair with Mercy? I was thinking that the nanny was distracted by the husband and lost the kid. That’s what his lying was about, where he was that night, and why Margaret doesn’t like Hilary's husband.


Hilary is insufferable. What’s the point of her character?


screwed up Mom & Dad
screwed up neighbor friend Margaret
screwed up husband

actually not so screwed up herself, considering.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2024 23:47     Subject: Expats
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Anyone watch the latest episode? Excruciating. The actor who plays her husband is incredible.


He is fantastic. Nicole Kidman is always great. I do not care about Hilary and her horrid mom or her dh and Mercy.


PP here. Agree. Hilary's mom is a piece of work. I don't know how she didn't tell her to just go back to India when they got out of the elevator. As for David and Mercy - ugh. What a toxic relationship. And her disgusting little apartment makes me feel sick everytie they show it.


Yeah, the Mom from India is TOXIC beyond repair. Now we know why Hilary doesn't want kids, look at the trauma she and her mom went through for decades of abuse and then lies. No way would I host someone like that in my home.

We need more Mercy background, why she had good grades in America, went to Columbia and got all F'd up and no job, no career, ran off to super expensive Hong Kong. Her Korean fortune tellers have been 100% correct thus far.....
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2024 23:44     Subject: Expats
Anonymous wrote:Anyone watch the latest episode? Excruciating. The actor who plays her husband is incredible.


Yes, he really wanted closure and now clearly won't get it. He expressed everything very well, but the Kidman character is falling off the turnip truck and dragging everyone else down too. Now she'll never leave HK.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2024 20:28     Subject: Expats
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Anyone watch the latest episode? Excruciating. The actor who plays her husband is incredible.


He is fantastic. Nicole Kidman is always great. I do not care about Hilary and her horrid mom or her dh and Mercy.


PP here. Agree. Hilary's mom is a piece of work. I don't know how she didn't tell her to just go back to India when they got out of the elevator. As for David and Mercy - ugh. What a toxic relationship. And her disgusting little apartment makes me feel sick everytie they show it.


Hilary is so sanctimonious and unwatchable, I enjoyed her mother


I don't find her sanctimonious at all. Where are you getting that?
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2024 14:57     Subject: Expats
Idk who said this show was about the nannies, but clearly that isnt true lol.

Also the most recent episode involves parents going to a police station to identify a childs body. So again, TW for anyone that may be sensitive to that.

Thank you to pp for pointing out the confined airless spaces and the opening of windows. I am clearly not very smart, I totally missed that! Very well done.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2024 14:53     Subject: Expats
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s Hong Kong. That was UK


What?


Are you serious? Hong Kong was British until 1997, and English the only official language until 1978, and after that one of the two. So that people expect most folk to speak English isn’t off the mark. How do you not know that?!


DP. Could you possibly be more unpleasant? Pretty sure we’re all well aware of the UK history in Hong Kong. 🙄🙄 Doesn’t change the fact that the VAST majority of people there only speak Cantonese. How do YOU not know that?!
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2024 06:51     Subject: Re:Expats
Anonymous wrote:Great episode. Each story line took place in a confined, airless, claustrophobic space (locked room, elevator, tiny apartment) which gradually heightened the tension until the end when windows were opened and wind and rain were let in. It felt like a relief.

Nicole Kidman's character seemed at the beginning to have some redeeming qualities. She had at least learned a few phrases to do her errands and chided one of her friends over the way the talked about the "helpers." But it's obvious now that she's entitled and horrible. Essie must be grieving as much as she is, given that she's the one who was mothering that little boy.



She criticized another woman for how she spoke to their helper, but then said Essie was "family." It was sanctimonious and false-- these women are being paid to wait in them. And it was obvious Margaret resented how much Gus loved Essie, which is why she was auditioning Mercy as a sitter and took the kids out without Essie.

Margaret was always ruled by her emotions and lacked sensible boundaries with Essie and Mercy, even before Gus was taken. Her distress since he went missing us totally understandable, but some of the underlying problems with her behavior were there before it happened.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2024 02:11     Subject: Re:Expats
Anonymous wrote:Great episode. Each story line took place in a confined, airless, claustrophobic space (locked room, elevator, tiny apartment) which gradually heightened the tension until the end when windows were opened and wind and rain were let in. It felt like a relief.

Nicole Kidman's character seemed at the beginning to have some redeeming qualities. She had at least learned a few phrases to do her errands and chided one of her friends over the way the talked about the "helpers." But it's obvious now that she's entitled and horrible. Essie must be grieving as much as she is, given that she's the one who was mothering that little boy.



I think you are projecting much
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2024 02:09     Subject: Expats
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s Hong Kong. That was UK


What?


Are you serious? Hong Kong was British until 1997, and English the only official language until 1978, and after that one of the two. So that people expect most folk to speak English isn’t off the mark. How do you not know that?!