When Nine Perfect Strangers first premiered in 2021, it might have coasted on the glossy prestige success of Big Little Lies—it was also based on a book by author Liane Moriarty and adapted by David E. Kelley into a star-studded miniseries led by Nicole Kidman.
But the show had the misfortune of debuting mere weeks after the inaugural season of The White Lotus, which also followed an ensemble of rich a--holes who get way more than they bargained for on a luxury getaway. That Mike White’s dramedy exploded into the zeitgeist the way it did in 2021 only made Nine Perfect Strangers’ overstuffed, underbaked approach to such similar material fall that much flatter in comparison.
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