User Reviews

I was so disappointed in this series. Couldn't believe Nicole Kidman would star in such a dud. And speaking of Nicole, she looked so weird in Ex-pats - something with her lips and mouth. I wonder if it's permanent, or was just for this show.

The show was difficult to follow, with a few stories and back-and-forth timelines.

I did like the scenes of Hong Kong, although it was always raining.

I felt bad they made Essie. The nanny, return to the states with them, because she was looking forward to retirement with her family.

I guess I missed the story completely, And found the ending most unsatisfying.

I get it... It's about women's pain. I'm a woman and old enough to experience children, infidelity, marriage, divorce, second chances and still this didn't resonant nor move me. It was so bland. And meh. Like major things happen. A couple of tears shed. No real emotion emoted. Just, meh, s* happens, shrug. Get on with it.

There was no passion here. Nothing. Everyone just looked like they'd just had bad kimchi for lunch. It was like watching a fish flopping around, gasping for breath. You just want to knock it on the head and put it out of it's misery or just throw it back in the water.

Unlikable people. Unlikable children. Even Gus was just annoying and just disobedient, a tragedy waiting to happen.

You hand your kid over to strangers and then show about as much passion and pain and anger that your frozen visage can now muster, I guess.

The director got nothing out of her actors. The only thing I got was she loves her country and wanted the audience to see it. That's fine for a travelog, but this was supposed to be a movie about... Something.

But all we got was 6 hours of boring, entitled miserable rich people crapping on their invisible servants and then treating tragedy like an unfortunate incident, like finding out the last high fashion outrageously expensive must-have doodad just got sold. Most women can't relate to that.

As I expected, the "closure" did not close anything. The insufferable, aimless, expressionless Mercy continues her pregnancy, probably thinking she can cope on her own with a baby and no money in her squalid apartment. Besides being morose, she's also arrogant and kind of stupid.

If I cared about this show, I would almost feel sorry for the actress who had to play such an awful character.

The Margaret character dumps her family at the gate, because she emotionally blackmailed the weak-willed Essie into moving with them to the US, so that Essie can take care of boring daily stuff while Margaret will wander around in Hong Kong looking for the missing Gus. It's like Margaret's two other kids are second rate.

Also as I expected Hilary ends up as a strong, SINGLE woman. Period.

Don't even get me started with the extreme close-up of the giant heads talking to each other randomly. I totally hated that idea and the dialogues was banal at best, trite and over-sentimental at worst.

Even the cinematography was abysmal. This episode was filmed like a student doing the final exams for some second rate cinema school. A few different styles crammed in for no logical reason: edgy, extreme close-up, banal street shooting, intimate, none of which was effective or conveyed anything extra to this flimsy plot that could have been told in two episodes max. Or better, none at all.