Prime Video has just debuted the trailer for the six-part limited series “Expats” which interrogates privilege and explores what happens when the line between victimhood and culpability becomes blurred, The series is directed by Lulu Wang and based on Janice Y. K. Lee’s internationally best-selling novel The Expatriates.
Starring Academy Award- and Emmy-winning actor Nicole Kidman (“Big Little Lies,” “The Undoing”), Sarayu Blue (“Never Have I Ever,” Blockers), Ji-young Yoo (The Sky Is Everywhere, Smoking Tigers), Brian Tee (“Chicago Med,” Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows), and Jack Huston (House of Gucci, “Fargo”).
Set against the vibrant and tumultuous tapestry of 2014 Hong Kong, Expats centers on three American women – Margaret (Kidman), Hilary (Blue), and Mercy (Yoo) – whose lives intersect after a sudden family tragedy. Tee plays Margaret’s husband Clarke and Huston plays Hilary’s husband David.
Wang serves as a creator, director, and writer for “Expats” and also executive produces the series with Daniele Melia for Local Time. Kidman serves as an executive producer for the series with Per Saari for Blossom Films (“Rabbit Hole,” “Nine Perfect Strangers”), along with Australian screenwriter Alice Bell (“The Beautiful Lie,” “The Slap”), who was the first writer onboarded to the series. Theresa Park for Per Capita Productions (After Yang, Bones and All) and Stan Wlodkowski (The Old Guard) also serve as executive producers. Vera Miao (“Two Sentence Horror Stories”), Gursimran Sandhu (“Game of Thrones”), and author Janice Y. K. Lee served as writers on “Expats,” with Bell and Wang.
The series will premiere with two episodes on 26 January 26 2024, with new episodes launching weekly until the finale on 23 February 23 2024.
