Hello everyone, I'm Alaska with glasses and a microphone.
I was still thinking about it two days ago, it seems that a good new HBO drama has not been released for a long time.
I didn't expect HBO to come.
Starring Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman.
As soon as it went online, it rushed to 8.7 points:
do nothing
Although this is only six episodes, it still continues HBO's "rage" style.
The first episode caught the piece's attention.
Eh? Sorry, I got it wrong, I was talking about the plot.
Hugh Grant plays Old White, a brilliant oncologist.
His wife, Mrs. Bai, is a psychotherapist.
In the United States, doctors are originally the top high-income group, and the couple together make a proper middle class.
The two live in a single-family villa in a wealthy area of Manhattan, and their son Xiaobai also attends a famous private school.
It seems that everything is perfect in the ideal life, but it is broken by a rich wife's tea party.
One afternoon, Mrs. Bai attended the afternoon tea party organized by the parents of the students as usual.
Such gatherings are usually made by rich wives to exchange resources and socialize in the name of exchanging their children's situation.
The theme this time is to prepare a fundraising auction for the school.
Raise some charitable expenses to provide for students from average backgrounds to complete their studies. At the same time, increase the salary of excellent teachers to prevent them from leaving and changing jobs.
But this afternoon tea was different from before.
A new member came in, Elena.
She is not rich, and her son can afford this school on a scholarship.
When I came to the party, I had to hold my little daughter who had not yet been weaned. Obviously, there was no one else in the family to take care of the child.
She didn't listen to the topics of the wives, never interrupted, and didn't care about the snubs of other women.
Seeing the baby in his arms crying, he took off his clothes and fed the baby.
There is nothing wrong with these behaviors, but they are still interpreted as "hostility" by the rich ladies.
The wives thought she was deliberately provocative by coming to the tea party.
Elena didn't care. Among the many women, she seemed to be interested in only one person.
That is Mrs. Bai.
In the locker room of the gym, she deliberately stood naked in front of Mrs. Bai to strike up a conversation.
When the fund-raising meeting was held, he kept staring at Sister-in-law Bai.
What's more, in the elevator, she and Mrs. Bai looked at each other and kissed directly.
Although Sister Bai thought it was strange, she didn't say much.
Because Elena's behavior, whether it's nudity or kissing, is between politeness and ambiguity.
Ah, this is just the right amount of tangerine in the tangerine I love.
However, it was unexpected. When Sister Bai heard Elena's name again, it was news of her death.
Elena was murdered and died in her studio the night the fundraiser ended.
The first reaction of other parents who knew the news was that Elena's husband killed her.
But Elena's husband seemed to be at home all night waiting for his wife to come back, and made breakfast for the children in the morning.
On the contrary, it was Sister Bai's own husband who started an abnormal behavior that she had never thought of.
Old Bai first told Mrs. Bai that he was going to another city on a business trip.
After Sister Bai was investigated by the police, she wanted to call her husband as soon as possible to tell him the news.
But I couldn't get through to Lao Bai's phone many times.
The message is not returned, the message is not returned.
When he opened the drawer at home, he found that Lao Bai had left his mobile phone at home.
What man can travel without a cell phone?
Unless there are two phones.
Or, he didn't go on a business trip at all.
Sister-in-law Bai called the hotel that Lao Bai had booked, and the hotel replied that she had no such person.
I even called a few other old whites who frequented it, and they all got the same answer.
The only one who got through was a man with the same name as Lao Bai.
Where is the husband?
What will be the connection between him and the murder?
The first episode ended abruptly when Mrs. Bai fell into a whirlpool of confusion.
In just one episode, "Doing Nothing" has already begun to reveal a lot of details worth talking about.
The original title was "The Undoing"
The original intention can be understood as a psychological counteracting mechanism.
When something unpleasant or unacceptable happens in life, people often instinctively make some symbolic remedies to relieve psychological discomfort and guilt.
For example, a partner who cheated in a marriage often suddenly becomes nice to the other half to ease the guilt.
During the Chinese New Year, when you break a plate and bowl, the elders say "every year is safe", and use homophonic stems to make up for it.
Sister Bai is a psychiatrist. In the first episode of the film, there are two scenes of providing psychological counseling to patients.
It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the murder case, but it's probably not idle writing.
In the first, a woman complained about her husband's emotional problems.
But Sister Bai told her that when she decided to choose a husband at that time, she was probably blinded by her emotions and ignored the problems that existed long ago.
On the other hand, look at the marriage of Lao Bai and Mrs. Bai.
From the very beginning, Lao Bai was an image of a very doting wife. In the film, the couple's love for each other was shown many times.
Is this also the compensation mechanism that Lao Bai has always treated his wife?
And Sister Bai, like the lady, ignored the problems that existed for a long time because of her feelings for Lao Bai.
The second psychological consultation seems to be more interesting.
A gay couple quarrel over one of them cheating.
When the two separated and Mrs. Bai questioned separately, the cheating party realized why she cheated under the guidance of Mrs. Bai.
He is not dissatisfied with the relationship, but simply enjoys the pleasure of being caught.
What is this foreshadowing?
When Lao Bai was sending his son to school, his son complained to Lao Bai that the school violin teacher said something nice, but in fact his eyes hoped that he would quit the violin team.
But Lao Bai asked his son, the reason why he can't practice the violin well, is it because he already wanted to give up in his heart and did it on purpose?
Such inconsistent hypocrisy fills the entire episode inadvertently.
Old Bai disliked others taking the elevator with him, but said that the elevator was too late to press the door button.
The rich wife circle is obviously raising donations for the school, but she secretly despises poor families who rely on scholarships to go to school.
At the auction, a glass of ordinary mineral water, packaged with a few beautiful words in words, started at $1,000 and kept asking for prices.
Nominally, I wanted to improve the treatment of the school teachers, but I didn't invite the teachers to the party at all.
The women ostensibly accepted Elena and joined her in a party.
Secretly mocking her as a "chief lactationist" and a "nudist"
In just a few scenes, the hypocrisy of the current middle class in the United States is vividly displayed.
Big houses, aristocratic schools, and afternoon tea parties are all like the colorful bubbles at the beginning of the whole film, which burst as soon as they are poked.
The Elena family, who lives in a slum, falls asleep listening to the train tracks and the roar every day.
Sister Bai, who lives in a quiet villa, wants to move out of New York.
Lao Bai said that children growing up in bubbles have become the norm and the essence of modern education.
The relationship between husband and wife is not a pink bubble.
Elena's murder case broke everything.
In which direction will the plot behind this 6-episode short play go?
Is the death of the mysterious girl really related to Lao Bai?
Sister Bai's seemingly happy family has hidden problems that have already appeared?
At present, the show has not finished airing, and the plot direction is still unknown.
But Hugh Grant, Nicole Kidman's lineup, plus a solid and detailed script.
After watching the episode, you will know that it is worth watching!
The old rules, the little students who want to watch, click "Watching"!
After watching more than 6000 points, the film can be opened to make a video.
This weekly HBO suspense drama, Ben Alaska smells and knows it's my dish.
Looking at it a little bit, bye bye~
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