A Hulu series from David E. Kelley, based on author Liane Moriarty’s bestseller, tops the DVD releases for the week.
“Nine Perfect Strangers: Season 1”: Nine city dwellers attend a secluded health-and-wellness resort seeking to reinvigorate their lives, but soon realize that the retreat — and the mysterious woman (Nicole Kidman) who runs it — are nothing like they expected. The -cast includes Melissa McCarthy and Luke Evans.
“The tones of ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ run in nine different directions, often in the same episode: Wrenching personal confessionals ram straight into comic relief dream sequences,” writes Chicago Tribune critic Michael Phillips. “While co-creator David E. Kelley, who cooked this up with John Henry Butterworth, has gotten away with tonal zigzags plenty in his career … here they do not help the overall mission.”