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Nine Perfect Strangers Recap: Trauma Dump
It’s flashback time!
One of the downsides of Nine Perfect Strangers ’s narrative setup — we have the clinic, the guests, and Masha at the helm — is that it inevitably draws its characters into simple “types.” There’s the bitter daughter, the rejected lover, the nice guy with a dark underside. Whoever he is, their history involves sex and maybe even romance: Masha isolates David in his room for hours upon his arrival, only to visit him at episode’s end, make out with him, and promise that from now on, they will only deal with each other at “arm’s length.” She makes fun of Matteo’s English.When, in a change of schedule, Masha instructs Martin to send the guests on a foraging excursion under Brian’s leadership, Imogen protests that she’s uncomfortable with having him in a position of power.
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