HuluNine Perfect Strangers (2021)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 6.1
Overview
At a boutique health-and-wellness resort that promises healing and transformation, nine stressed city dwellers try to get on a path to a better way of living. Watching over them during this 10-day retreat is the resort's director, Masha, a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies. However, these nine "perfect" strangers have no idea what is about to hit them.
Starring Cast
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Political: Center
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Positive
Race Swap: Yes
Overview
At a boutique health-and-wellness resort that promises healing and transformation, nine stressed city dwellers try to get on a path to a better way of living. Watching over them during this 10-day retreat is the resort's director, Masha, a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies. However, these nine "perfect" strangers have no idea what is about to hit them.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
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Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
The series explores universal themes of personal trauma, grief, and the search for healing through unconventional methods at a wellness retreat. It maintains a neutral stance by focusing on individual psychological journeys and the ethical complexities of the therapeutic process rather than promoting a specific political ideology or systemic critique.
The series incorporates significant diversity through its casting choices, including the explicit portrayal of a main character as gay and the casting of minority actors in roles that might otherwise be assumed white. However, the narrative primarily focuses on individual psychological journeys and does not explicitly critique traditional identities or center its plot around strong DEI themes.
Secondary
Nine Perfect Strangers features Lars Lee, an openly gay character whose personal struggles and relationship with his ex-boyfriend are explored with dignity and empathy. His queer identity is presented as a normal aspect of his complex personality, integrated respectfully into the narrative without relying on stereotypes or problematic framing. The overall portrayal is affirming.
The show adapts a novel where characters Ben Chandler and Carmel Schneider were depicted as white. In the series, these roles are portrayed by Black actors, constituting race swaps.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The show "Nine Perfect Strangers" is an adaptation of Liane Moriarty's novel. All significant characters in the series maintain the same gender as established in the original source material, with no changes to their canonical gender.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
6.1
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
User Ratings
6.9
7.0
Critic Ratings
5.2
5.3
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