Amazon Prime Video is one of the most successful streaming services, and the company's lineup of new and exciting TV shows in 2024 are some of the best original content of the year. With access to familiar IPs within a variety of genres, Prime Video appeals to a wide array of viewers with its diversity of projects. Recently, it appears that The Rings of Power could be Amazon's Game of Thrones replacement, and this is only one of many series that aired a new season in 2024. The acclaimed fantasy show is one of many works that draw viewers in.
The best TV shows streaming on Amazon Prime Video are made up of the streamer's backlog of older content as well as its original shows. This year, many of the most watched and fan-favorite series are new pieces of TV that Prime put out in 2024. While the quality of a TV show isn't determined by its budget,...
The best TV shows streaming on Amazon Prime Video are made up of the streamer's backlog of older content as well as its original shows. This year, many of the most watched and fan-favorite series are new pieces of TV that Prime put out in 2024. While the quality of a TV show isn't determined by its budget,...
- 9/17/2024
- by Mary Kassel
- ScreenRant
Editor’s note: Deadline’s It Starts on the Page features standout limited or anthology series scripts in 2024 Emmy contention.
In Prime Video’s limited series Expats, based on the novel The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee, creator Lulu Wang shines a light on an expatriate community in Hong Kong with a focus on three women, Margaret (Nicole Kidman), Hilary (Sarayu Blue), and Mercy (Ji-young Yoo), whose destinies are intertwined. Two of them, Margaret and Hilary, represent the expat experience where money is no object and nothing would get resolved at home without the aid of their domestic workers.
While showing the importance of their contributions, the nannies and housekeepers themselves are featured minimally throughout the first four episodes until they take center stage in the penultimate Episode 5, “Central,” dedicated entirely to their point of view. This is a different approach than a more traditional upstairs/downstairs perspective seen on series like Downtown Abbey.
In Prime Video’s limited series Expats, based on the novel The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee, creator Lulu Wang shines a light on an expatriate community in Hong Kong with a focus on three women, Margaret (Nicole Kidman), Hilary (Sarayu Blue), and Mercy (Ji-young Yoo), whose destinies are intertwined. Two of them, Margaret and Hilary, represent the expat experience where money is no object and nothing would get resolved at home without the aid of their domestic workers.
While showing the importance of their contributions, the nannies and housekeepers themselves are featured minimally throughout the first four episodes until they take center stage in the penultimate Episode 5, “Central,” dedicated entirely to their point of view. This is a different approach than a more traditional upstairs/downstairs perspective seen on series like Downtown Abbey.
- 6/13/2024
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Brian Tee left Chicago Med to star in Prime Video's Expats, portraying Clarke whose child goes missing. Tee found the transition from network TV to streaming natural and was drawn to the heavy role. Expats' open ending imitates real life and leaves room for audience interpretation of what happens next.
Warning: Spoilers for the Expats season finale.After 136 episodes of portraying Ethan Choi on Chicago Med, Brian Tee opted to leave the NBC series to explore other opportunities and stretch his creative muscles. He has since taken on the part of Clarke in Prime Video's limited series, Expats, which dropped its final installment on February 23. The character is unique to the actor's other roles, as the show focuses on the aftermath of his child's disappearance and the toll that unsolved cases take on the families of missing persons.
Tee was featured in several episodes of Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D. before exiting the Chicago franchise.
Warning: Spoilers for the Expats season finale.After 136 episodes of portraying Ethan Choi on Chicago Med, Brian Tee opted to leave the NBC series to explore other opportunities and stretch his creative muscles. He has since taken on the part of Clarke in Prime Video's limited series, Expats, which dropped its final installment on February 23. The character is unique to the actor's other roles, as the show focuses on the aftermath of his child's disappearance and the toll that unsolved cases take on the families of missing persons.
Tee was featured in several episodes of Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D. before exiting the Chicago franchise.
- 3/7/2024
- by Rachel Foertsch
- ScreenRant
[This story contains spoilers through the fifth episode of Expats, “Central.”]
A show called Expats understandably focuses on the cosmopolitan lives of those privileged enough to make their fortunes abroad, and for most of the Amazon limited series’ six episodes, it does just that, following neighbors Margaret (Nicole Kidman) and Hilary (Sarayu Blue). The two wealthy women live in Hong Kong’s tony Victoria Peak neighborhood, as well as Mercy (Ji-young Yoo), the American drifter who complicates both of their lives. To recap: Mercy was tasked with watching Margaret’s two sons during a night market outing when the younger one disappeared. A year later, Gus is still missing, and Mercy is having an affair with Hilary’s husband, David (Jack Huston).
But the fifth episode drifts away from the trio of protagonists to focus on characters that have heretofore existed in the background, sometimes literally. “Central” (each episode of Expats is named after a geographically significant area in...
A show called Expats understandably focuses on the cosmopolitan lives of those privileged enough to make their fortunes abroad, and for most of the Amazon limited series’ six episodes, it does just that, following neighbors Margaret (Nicole Kidman) and Hilary (Sarayu Blue). The two wealthy women live in Hong Kong’s tony Victoria Peak neighborhood, as well as Mercy (Ji-young Yoo), the American drifter who complicates both of their lives. To recap: Mercy was tasked with watching Margaret’s two sons during a night market outing when the younger one disappeared. A year later, Gus is still missing, and Mercy is having an affair with Hilary’s husband, David (Jack Huston).
But the fifth episode drifts away from the trio of protagonists to focus on characters that have heretofore existed in the background, sometimes literally. “Central” (each episode of Expats is named after a geographically significant area in...
- 2/17/2024
- by Rebecca Sun
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Expats” is a new live-action TV series, based on “The Expatriates” by Janice Y. K. Lee, directed by Lulu Wang, starring Nicole Kidman, Ji-young Yoo, Jack Huston, Sarayu Blue, Brian Tee and Flora Chan, streaming January 26, 2024 on Amazon Prime Video:
“…’Expats’ follows the lives of a close-knit expatriate community: where affluence is celebrated…
“…friendships are intense but knowingly temporary, and personal lives, deaths and marriages…
“…are played out publicly—then retold with glee…”
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“…’Expats’ follows the lives of a close-knit expatriate community: where affluence is celebrated…
“…friendships are intense but knowingly temporary, and personal lives, deaths and marriages…
“…are played out publicly—then retold with glee…”
Click the images to enlarge…...
- 1/16/2024
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
“Expats” is a new live-action TV series, based on “The Expatriates” by Janice Y. K. Lee, directed by Lulu Wang, starring Nicole Kidman, Ji-young Yoo, Jack Huston, Sarayu Blue, Brian Tee and Flora Chan, streaming January 26, 2024 on Amazon Prime Video:
“…’Expats’ follows the lives of a close-knit expatriate community: where affluence is celebrated…
“…friendships are intense but knowingly temporary, and personal lives, deaths and marriages…
“…are played out publicly—then retold with glee…”
Click the images to enlarge…...
“…’Expats’ follows the lives of a close-knit expatriate community: where affluence is celebrated…
“…friendships are intense but knowingly temporary, and personal lives, deaths and marriages…
“…are played out publicly—then retold with glee…”
Click the images to enlarge…...
- 1/3/2024
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
“Expats” is a new live-action TV series, based on “The Expatriates” by Janice Y. K. Lee, directed by Lulu Wang, starring Nicole Kidman, Ji-young Yoo, Jack Huston, Sarayu Blue, Brian Tee and Flora Chan, streaming January 26, 2024 on Amazon Prime Video:
“…’Expats’ follows the lives of a close-knit expatriate community: where affluence is celebrated…
“…friendships are intense but knowingly temporary, and personal lives, deaths and marriages…
“…are played out publicly—then retold with glee…”
Click the images to enlarge…...
“…’Expats’ follows the lives of a close-knit expatriate community: where affluence is celebrated…
“…friendships are intense but knowingly temporary, and personal lives, deaths and marriages…
“…are played out publicly—then retold with glee…”
Click the images to enlarge…...
- 12/20/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
"Not a moment goes by where I'm not thinking about what I've done." Prime Video has revealed the first full trailer for the new series Expats, created by the talented filmmaker Lulu Wang (her latest since her hit film The Farewell). Expats is an upcoming American drama streaming television series created by Wang based on the 2016 novel "The Expatriates" by Janice Y. K. Lee that is set to stream on Prime Video starting in January. It follows "the vibrant lives of a close-knit expatriate community: where affluence is celebrated, friendships are intense but knowingly temporary, and personal lives, deaths and marriages are played out publicly—then retold with glee." It's a story about the many lives of expats living in other countries (mainly in Hong Kong) - starring Nicole Kidman as Margaret, Ji-young Yoo as Mercy, Jack Huston as David Starr, Sarayu Blue as Hilary Starr, Brian Tee as Clarke,...
- 12/19/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Stars: Louis Koo, Nick Cheung, Louis Fan, Barbie Hsu, Ye Liu, Eddie Cheung, Gong Beibi, Carlos Chan, Flora Chan, Ankie Black, Ken Hung, Felix Lok | Written by Larry Cohen | Directed by Benny Chan
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This Chinese-Hong Kong remake of Cellular (and based on the same script by Larry Cohen) hits a lot of the right notes to make a satisfactory, dynamic thriller. Benny Chan...
Engineer Grace Wong is kidnapped by thugs looking for her brother. Though her captors have destroyed the telephone in the room she is being held captive in, Grace is able to use her technical skills to repair the phone enough to call a random number. She gets through to slightly hapless debt collector Bob and implores him for help, setting Bob off on a mission to save a complete stranger from a mysterious group of conspirators, putting his life and relationship with his estranged son in danger.
This Chinese-Hong Kong remake of Cellular (and based on the same script by Larry Cohen) hits a lot of the right notes to make a satisfactory, dynamic thriller. Benny Chan...
- 3/5/2017
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
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