A moneyed couple, a seductive stranger, a murder … HBO’s latest series has all the usual thriller hallmarks, but it is its stellar performances that make it truly gripping
Come for Nicole Kidman, in the hope that this new HBO miniseries will fill the Big Little Lies-shaped hole in your weekly viewing schedule, but stay for Hugh Grant. The roll that Grant has been on since Paddington 2 and A Very English Scandal continues with another mildly self-satirising role: he plays Jonathan Fraser, the witty, British and – if you like that sort of thing – sexy husband of Kidman’s elegant New Yorker, Grace.
Grace and Jonathan are living a wealthy, urban idyll on the Upper East Side (their school run is a stroll across a snowy Central Park), with busy careers as a therapist and paediatric oncologist, respectively. Work does not seem to impinge too much on their happy marriage, healthy sex life and easy-going parenting of their only child Henry (Noah Jupe), and Grace does it all in an enviable, jewel-toned wardrobe of velvet, chiffon and satin.
