Lucy Mangan
Lucy Mangan is a Guardian TV critic. Twitter: @LucyMangan January 2024 3 out of 5 stars. This Hong Kong-set meditation on grief, greed and racism is a languorous, beautiful looking drama. But we’ve seen it all before. Sometimes with Kidman, sometimes without.
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Bias
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- December 2023
- January 2024
- Lucy Mangan is a Guardian TV critic.
- Published: 24 Dec 2023
- Published: 29 Dec 2023
- Sure, it pits Spall and James Nesbitt against each other as Santa and Villainous Santa – but the child star Bamber Todd is who really steals the show. What a magnificent drama
- This Christmas week, a sobering realisation, realistic resolutions and the Gammons’ imperial dreams
- This Hong Kong-set meditation on grief, greed and racism is a languorous, beautiful looking drama. But we’ve seen Kidman wafting about as a sad, privileged woman far, far too many times
Conflicts of Interest
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- I never thought I would live so long as to see Nicole Kidman become one of the most boring actors of her generation
- In new Lulu Wang-directed drama Expats, the feeling that she is running on the fumes of her talent is hard to avoid
Contradictions
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- (Expats is set in 2014 and follows a pair of students protesting against China's increasing grip on Hong Kong)
- (Margaret Woo, played by Nicole Kidman, gave up her job to follow her loving husband Clarke (Brian Tee) to Hong Kong for his.)
- The drama intertwines the stories and fates of three characters: Margaret, Hilary (Sarayu Blue), and Mercy (Ji-young Yoo)
- The fifth episode plays like an indie film, banishes the main characters to the margins, and puts Essie (Ruby Ruiz) and Hilary's helper Puri front-and-center
Deceptions
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Examples:
- Sure, it pits Spall and James Nesbitt against each other as Santa and Villainous Santa – but the child star Bamber Todd is who really steals the show. What a magnificent drama
- This Hong Kong-set meditation on grief, greed and racism is a languorous, beautiful looking drama. But we’ve seen it all before. Sometimes with Kidman, sometimes without.
- we’ve seen Kidman wafting about as a sad, privileged woman far, far too many times
- What a lovely way to round off the year
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