HBO recently launched a tantalizing new drama "Do Nothing," adapted by David E. Kelly from Jean Hanff Korelitz's 2014 novel "You Should Know," directed by the Austrian award-winning Suzanne Bier.
The six-episode miniseries, which is somewhat similar to the previous hit Big Little Lies, is about a murder wrapped in a marriage plot.
In addition to the subject matter, the star faces are more eye-catching. Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant play a couple in the play, and one of the highlights of the show is Hugh Grant's sly old man's face and Nicole Kidd. Man's elegance and fragility, the two have not cooperated much before, and only this combination has released the smell of gunpowder.
In the play, Jonathan, played by Hugh Grant, has become the main suspect in a murder case, but Grace, played by Nicole Kidman, has yet to see the true face of this "glamorous husband", judging from the first episode that has been released. , the horror and suspense atmosphere of this drama is very online.
This article contains spoilers.
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Grace Fraser is a psychotherapist who is well-born and lives a luxurious life of privilege, and Hugh Grant's Jonathan is Grace's husband, a pediatric oncologist who is They also have a successful career in the industry. They live with their only son in a big house on the Upper East Side and live a worry-free life.
As a well-known therapist on the Upper East Side, Grace is good at helping her clients resolve their chaotic personal and emotional lives. She is good at analyzing client psychology and always finding the right problem.
Grace derives a sense of security and value from her profession, being an independent woman and having a healthy family.
In addition, Grace is a member of the school board, and she is co-organizing a fundraiser with the mothers of other children at the school to raise money to provide for poor children to attend the private school.
And the bizarre plot begins with an intruder.
Her name is Elena, she has a youthful appearance and a plump figure, but she does not have the material and social connections that these "ladies" have, and she is here because her fourth-grade son has won a scholarship.
At the party, so there is no doubt that Elena was left out in the cold, these ladies smugly gossiping about some worthless gossip, and she just stared at them with quiet weird eyes and tried to soothe the restless little baby girl.
But no one expected that she would take off her clothes and directly breastfeed her daughter in public. This behavior shocked a table of ladies. They didn't think that Elena was unqualified, but thought it was "hostility" from Elena. ”, her breastfeeding behavior implied that she disdain other people present, disdain their conversation, and deliberately show her youth and beauty.
But Elena seemed to have a clear goal, and that was Grace, who showed up naked and accosted Grace in the gym's locker room, but Grace remained polite and pretended not to care.
The fund-raising event was held in a luxurious apartment, and the guests were all the parents of the school students. It looked like a parent-teacher meeting, but it was actually a social circle. People here were using their own resources to open up the interest chain.
Although the reasons given for holding the event are high-sounding, for example, in order to take into account "diversity" and let poor children also go to your school, they donate money to let their children inherit the circle effortlessly. This kind of "good deed" is actually for themselves protection of interests.
On this occasion, Grace and Elena became two completely different species. Grace's father's capital allowed her to gain an unshakable position in the school, but Elena had nothing. She was so ill that she hurried off after a brief conversation with Grace, like a mystery.
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But when Grace got the news of Elena again, it was the news of her death.
Elena was murdered overnight, and Grace's husband, Jonathan, lost contact, and Elena's son happened to be there to witness the murder.
Grace had previously thought that her husband had gone on a business trip far away, and she thought she didn't know enough about Elena, so this series of events didn't connect in her mind.
But the case progressed rapidly. The police searched around and soon made new discoveries. The NYPD detective duo set their sights on Grace. They thought her disappearing husband was a big suspect. Grace subconsciously hid it. All the details of the face-to-face meeting with Elena, there is a vague sense of unease and fear in my heart.
The missing Jonathan is disturbing, and Grace makes calls frantically, only to find her husband's phone on the bedside table, which deepens Grace's suspicion, as if she is suddenly in a huge mystery.
When she checked the hotels where her husband might be staying, she found that a person with the same name and voice as her husband was opening a room with a strange woman in the hotel. At this point, Jonathan's derailment was a certainty.
But Grace is a professional psychotherapist and is highly trained in human behavior analysis, which makes cheating difficult. Grace may already know what Jonathan is like, but does this also mean that she is using "professionalism" sex" to deceive himself.
So far, the first episode offers a rather fascinating puzzle, not only about betrayal and murder, but also a terrifying core, the director and writer are very good at portraying the portraits of powerful couples, they made the whole show as Psychological thriller wrapped in colorful plastic wrap.
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"Doing Nothing" visually evokes a crowded and undercurrent New York, and one person I have to mention here is Anthony Dodd-Mentau, the former director of "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Merry-Go-Round." The photographer, this time around, paints New York as a glamorous and nightmarish city, where every time the characters walk through the city, they lead the viewer in and out of sunlight and shadow.
The character of Elena is like a depth bomb dropped at the beginning of the series. She is a poor archetype from a distant world and repulsive in the story. She represents a destructive force from the lower classes, Elena. Every move of the dame has attracted the attention of the ladies, and this attention is not only contempt, but also fear.
As Grace explained to the police, his son's annual tuition fee is $50,000, which is enough to separate them from poor children and allow them to realize new wealth in the future.
And all the effort stems from the fear that the protection of their own class is fading, so despite the fact that these parents adorn Reardon Private School with "diversity" political correctness, they are still refusing to really face the great wealth and racial disparities.
In the following plot, Grace's comfortable marriage in the past is completely shattered, and this husband who was praised in the past with a good career and a humorous personality ruined her beautiful fantasy.
But more exciting roles have yet to appear. In addition to Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant, Donald Sutherland also played Grace's tough, rich father, who never seemed to like her son-in-law... …
Obviously more puzzles will be unfolded one by one later, let's wait and see.
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