The Perfect Couple (Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber)

Fuck me....does Nicole Kidman ever sleep?

Her work ethic is absolutely ridiculous. She has to be the hardest working woman in showbuisness. I can't think of anyone who comes remotely close.

An Adjani bop in the background at 1:16.

So Kidman has in the last few years worked with Streep, Judy Davis, Adjani, and Liv Ullmann (I think?)....

Mattsby - I genuinely had no idea that Kidman and Judy Davis had worked together until I read your post. I watched their episode of Roar - they were just incredible together - the layers to their chemistry - wow. This is why you will always be that guy. 

quetee - This premieres on September 5th, which also happens to be my birthday!  Somehow I knew that Nicole knew me... I finally have the proof. 

I had no idea that Eve Hewson was Bono's daughter.

Sam Nivola is really cute.

I can't even keep up with all the TV Kidman does, but honestly,  I think it's arguably made her a bigger star than she was at the peak of her movie stardom (2001-2005). Like, she's actually fucking ubiquitous in the streaming age. And all these shows are hits for their networks and streamers. She's literally going to have 3 TV shows premiere this year ( Expats, The Perfect Couple and the 2nd season of Lioness). 

The TV stuff at this point is maintaining her stardom at an age (She's 57) where actresses tend to fade into the background, and only get supporting roles, which are usually unglamarous or grotesque ( I think any one of her TV shows are more dignified star vehicles than some of the Grand Guiginol shit actresses like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford had to star in when they hit their 50's and 60's).

I think the shows and their commercial success have allowed Kidman to remain viable as a leading lady in films. She's such a big name, that she can get independent features with decent sized budgets like Babygirl green lit. I don't know if that's still the case without all the TV success. Eventually, she'd have been put out to pasture.

I also think she says yes to a lot of things ( Film or TV) if it helps give women directors more opportunity, which is her thing. Susanna Bier came to her with The Perfect Couple and she almost certainly said yes, just because of Bier. Expats was Lulu Wang. Halina Rejin ( Babygirl) and Mimi Cave ( Holland, Michigan) are films that she did to lend support to women directors.With her film and TV choices, Kidman is single handedly doing more to keep female directors gainfully employed than most of Hollywood put together.

So yeah, while personally I wish she's take a breather on all the TV as it's hard for me to keep up with, I'd never tell her to stop , because it's working for her career/stardom wise, she's doing a lot of it to altrusically give work to female directors, and she's earned the right to do whatever she wants till she's dead, as she has nothing more to prove to anyone. She's got more than her share of duds, but in terms of combined volume and quality, Kidman may have the best Film/TV career of any actress in history. 

Watchable but a bit lacking. Way too much filler for such a short series. How many joints can I watch Liev Schreiber smoke? Dakota Fanning mvp

Huffington Post article makes some interesting points. Kidman is very much giving audiences what they want.