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Nine Perfect Strangers Recap: Beta Testing
It’s another flashback-heavy episode that answers questions about Masha’s history, but I’m still no closer to understanding who this character is.
Masha monitors his vital signs and reassures him that it’s “normal to dip in and out of the hallucination.” To lull him back into the hallucination after he wakes up, she uses sensory triggers: the smell of cigarette smoke or coffee, the sound of a television news program, and its images. It seems like we’ll have to wait for confirmation that this is all part of Masha’s demented plan, but the short of it is that Mila, now a newspaper journalist, resolved to find out who Ivanov was and expose his shady military contract work as an extremely roundabout way of getting back to David. Freed from having to act like she already knows everything that is about to happen, and given the room to discover — a crush on David, the vulnerability of sharing your desires with a stranger, the openness of youth — it finally feels like we’re watching Kidman work rather than just voice lines.
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