Expats

Something has happened to effect expats living in Hong Kong - a family comprising Nicole Kidman, Brian Tee and two kids. Their neighbours, Sarayu Blue and Jack Huston know, and somehow a young Korean girl seems to be involved, Ji-young Yoo. After two episodes we find out.

Lulu Wang (The Farewell) has directed an adaptation of Janice Y.K. Lee's novel 'The Expatriates' - shouldn't have bothered.

You shouldn't have been on your phone, should you?

Q thought the little brat should have been on a lead - good idea.

It's a wee bit boring, though, and plagued by impossible to read text messages. Then, episode 4 is just interminable, as Sarayu Blue is stuck in a lift with her horrible mum, Huston and Yoo think she might be pregnant, and Kidman and Tee wait at a mortuary. That was an hour I was well pleased to be over. I'm now finding it hard to like anyone in it. The next one is even worse, runs an hour 40 for some inexplicable reason, tangents in to the Hong Kong protests, goes nowhere, is even more interminable and wayward.

Through gritted teeth we watched the final episode, with its pretentious and confusing three way to-camera conversations. I hated the whole thing.

Filmed in Hong Kong for Amazon.