Has ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ Lost the Plot and Its Mind?

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Nine Perfect Strangers had a strong start to its second season. Masha (Nicole Kidman) relocated to Zauberwald, the German wellness retreat where she learned the psilocybin-based “protocol” she would later offer to the world. The excellent cast (Kidman, Henry Golding, Annie Murphy, Murray Bartlett, Lena Olin, Christine Baranski) were given broad but entertaining characters to play. The chilly Alpine air was thick with mystery and camp possibilities. The series seemed poised to show viewers a very watchable mess with tightly-wound rich people going on drug trips while Masha does her absurd girlboss-guru shtick in what might be an all-time crazy Kidman wig. It seemed to promise a more wicked, more playful

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