Back when “Expats” showrunner and director Lulu Wang was an indie filmmaker promoting “The Farewell,” the 2019 hit that she wrote and directed, her agent reached out to her. “I just felt like I was daydreaming out loud — not really pitching,” director Lulu Wang says of telling Nicole Kidman all the things she would need before taking on “Expats.” …
Expats Series Review: Alienation, despair, grief, guilt, and wistfulness — these are the ingredients of Lulu Wang’s savoury Expats. Despite ‘thriller’ being the crux of the main story, Expats vows to deconstruct a lot of social issues around it through a profound feminine lens. Whether it’s feminism, mental illness, the politics of Hong Kong, or the two different sides of …
The first-look images of Expats, Lulu Wang’s much-anticipated series adaptation of Janice Y. K. Lee’s bestselling novel ‘The Expatriates,’ were released by Amazon Studios today. Headlined by Nicole Kidman, the six-part limited series is set to arrive on Prime Video in 2024 after premiering its penultimate episode this week at the Toronto International Film Festival Wang is the writer, director, …
