©The Hollywood Reporter - Disney/Reiner BajoKidman (pictured) reprises her role as mysterious guru Masha Dmitrichenko, welcoming guests to a transformative wellness retreat in the Austrian Alps. But as she tries to cure everyone, they’re pushed to their limits, begging the question: Will she and Masha survive?
The second season also stars Henry Golding, Lena Olin, Annie Murphy, Christine Baranski, Lucas Englander, King Princess, Murray Bartlett, Dolly de Leon, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Mark Strong and Aras Aydin.
The Hulu series finds a home for its second round in a snowy location, a departure from the Tranquillum House in California where Masha once lived. As in the first season, the nine strangers who join Masha undergo psychedelic therapy to heal their traumas, but not without initial hesitation.
In the trailer Kidman’s Masha greets her guests telling them, “I invited you all here because sometimes you shouldn’t deal with pain gently.” When one guest (portrayed by King Princess) asks confused, ”Wait, this is not a spa?” Baranski’s character jokes, “She’s going to bleach our brains, darling.”
“This is a cleansing of the mind,” Masha notes. “To recharge, to rediscover inspiration.” The guests are shown, once again, taking a hallucinogenic drug and Masha directs them to return to “a core memory” for the healing practice.
“Sometimes, the lies you let people believe are just as important as the truth,” Kidman’s Masha is also overheard saying.
However, elsewhere in the trailer Masha is shown to also be struggling with dealing with her own trauma. “You came to me a broken woman,” Masha is told in the trailer. “And you break everyone you try to heal.”
Nine Perfect Strangers debuts on Hulu on Thursday, May 22 with two episodes, with a new episode airing every Thursday through July 2.
