Anonymous
01/30/2024 10:56
Subject: Re:Expats
I think the show is beautifully done but I can't stomach the premise. As a mom of two young kids it gives me too much anxiety, especially since it doesn't seem likely we'll have a happy ending
Anonymous
01/30/2024 10:43
Subject: Expats
Anonymous wrote:The book that it’s based on is like ten years old so if Mercy graduated during a recession and there was high unemployment then going abroad would be plausible.
In the book the family goes on vacation to Bali or somewhere and they take Mercy along and he gets lost there. It’s not a one off thing but Mercy has been working for them for awhile.
I think we are supposed to feel the Nicole Kidman characters ambivalence and guilt. She didn’t want to be pregnant, wanted a nanny cuz she found her kids a little tiresome, took them on an unnecessary adventure cu she was bored.
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.
Appreciate this context, thanks.
Anonymous
01/30/2024 10:21
Subject: Expats
I found the first episode confusing. I ended up googling the show for clarity and from there it made complete sense. I’m really enjoying it. I thought that was Nicole Kidman but second guessed myself because why would she be playing this role?
Anonymous
01/30/2024 10:09
Subject: Expats
Anonymous wrote:The reviews are very mixed…
I found it slow and boring. Not watching after Ep 1
Anonymous
01/30/2024 08:43
Subject: Expats
The book that it’s based on is like ten years old so if Mercy graduated during a recession and there was high unemployment then going abroad would be plausible.
In the book the family goes on vacation to Bali or somewhere and they take Mercy along and he gets lost there. It’s not a one off thing but Mercy has been working for them for awhile.
I think we are supposed to feel the Nicole Kidman characters ambivalence and guilt. She didn’t want to be pregnant, wanted a nanny cuz she found her kids a little tiresome, took them on an unnecessary adventure cu she was bored.
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.
In the book the family goes on vacation to Bali or somewhere and they take Mercy along and he gets lost there. It’s not a one off thing but Mercy has been working for them for awhile.
I think we are supposed to feel the Nicole Kidman characters ambivalence and guilt. She didn’t want to be pregnant, wanted a nanny cuz she found her kids a little tiresome, took them on an unnecessary adventure cu she was bored.
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.
Anonymous
01/30/2024 08:14
Subject: Expats
Why does she continue to get hired looking like this. She works a LOT! and people mention her odd look in each show she's in.
I could barely watch The Northman.
Jennifer Aniston is the same way. I'm not focused on the show, but how her lips and mouth are so awkward now. Do they not see this in the mirror? Is looking like this better than having a few wrinkles?
I could barely watch The Northman.
Jennifer Aniston is the same way. I'm not focused on the show, but how her lips and mouth are so awkward now. Do they not see this in the mirror? Is looking like this better than having a few wrinkles?
Anonymous
01/30/2024 00:37
Subject: Expats
Anonymous wrote:Re: Nicole Kidman - I actually don’t find her looks all that distracting in this show (her hair, however, is another matter). I was appalled at how her face looked in the recent Special Ops: Lioness show, though. My theory is that she had work done right before filming that show and it has settled somewhat now. Her lip flip that was so obvious before looks normal now.
Eh, I still think her lip flip looks really bad. I also don't like the work she's had done on her eyes. Combo of surgery and Botox I think. But in an effort to create as much tightness/smoothness as possible, she created this little triangle of crepey puckering on her eyelid that is only more obvious because of how smooth and unwrinkle her brow and outer eye are are. It's uncanny.
But agree regarding her hair. Wigs, yes? They look fake and the color seems off somehow, I think too light?
I know this is negative and not picky but these things bother me specifically because she's so stunning overall so the bad plastic surgery and awkward hair really jump out.
Anonymous
01/30/2024 00:30
Subject: Expats
Re: Nicole Kidman - I actually don’t find her looks all that distracting in this show (her hair, however, is another matter). I was appalled at how her face looked in the recent Special Ops: Lioness show, though. My theory is that she had work done right before filming that show and it has settled somewhat now. Her lip flip that was so obvious before looks normal now.
Anonymous
01/30/2024 00:25
Subject: Expats
Anonymous wrote:Agree with everything said so far. Margaret is very unlikeable, as is Mercy. And the cheating husband. And Daisy is a horror. Well pretty much all of them! I hope that's not the cross-section of expats. Aholes, the lot?
I hate the allusions to Gus as well. We know he's not dead but he's gone, which is worse. I don't know if I can continue to watch a show about a kid who got kidnapped and maybe trafficked to live a miserable life. I would not want to continue living.
I completely agree with you and have always felt this way. There is simply no way I could function knowing my child was out there in the world, enduring God knows what. No way.
Anonymous
01/28/2024 07:47
Subject: Expats
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why the nanny is in HK after going to Columbia University.
Agree. Show is depressing AF and this plot point drives me crazy. If she's got the grades and drive to go to Columbia on an academic scholarship, she's not going to go straight back to her mom's house and start scooping ice cream. She'd get a flipping job.
It made sense to me. There are some kids who are sort of aimless after college, don't get a job, want adventure, want to get away. She is portrayed as someone who just does what she wants without thinking much, as we see in the crazy swimming under the yacht scene.
Anonymous
01/28/2024 00:04
Subject: Expats
Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why the nanny is in HK after going to Columbia University.
Agree. Show is depressing AF and this plot point drives me crazy. If she's got the grades and drive to go to Columbia on an academic scholarship, she's not going to go straight back to her mom's house and start scooping ice cream. She'd get a flipping job.
Anonymous
01/27/2024 23:56
Subject: Re:Expats
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.
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.
Anonymous
01/27/2024 23:12
Subject: Expats
The reviews are very mixed…
Anonymous
01/27/2024 22:03
Subject: Expats
I think the kid is dead and we just don’t know how yet. People wouldn’t be trying to get them to return to the States if he were kidnapped.
Anonymous
01/27/2024 21:50
Subject: Expats
I don't understand why the nanny is in HK after going to Columbia University.