Nicole Kidman, Australia’s most successful Hollywood film star, has long since made the leap to streaming. In fact, with 2017 hit Big Little Lies, based on compatriot Liane Moriarty’s New York Times bestseller, it’s fair to say Kidman helped put limited series into the ascendancy over movies. That campy thriller blended psychological drama with provocative social commentary, in Kidman’s first alliance with show-runner David E. Kelley.

Nine Perfect Strangers, another Moriarty adaptation with Kidman and Kelley at the helm, premiered in 2021 on the back of this momentum, but inauspiciously followed the release of The White Lotus’ first season by a matter of weeks. Similar to Mike White’s cutting satire of wealthy neurotics flailing in paradise, Nine Perfect Strangers portrayed a web of mystery at a wellness retreat called Tranquillum House. Led by Kidman’s enigmatic Russian mindfulness guru, Masha Dmitrichenko, invitees embarked on transformative journeys of drugged self-discovery only to find themselves pushed to breaking point.