Director Lulu Wang’s sprawling “Expats” is long and lingering with evocative atmospherics. Complex and observant, mounted on an enormous canvas, the limited series is deeply ambitious and takes on a lot, arguably too much. Exploring ideas of motherhood, womanhood, loneliness, and grief, interrogating privilege, and the alienating experience of life as an immigrant from multiple perspectives, that’s not all. “Expats” also examines how people, specifically women, move past, through, and beyond tragedy, if they can at all.

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Can tragedy provoke a larger discussion? Lulu Wang explores the complex issues surrounding privilege and social conscience in “Expats.” The filmmaker additionally serves as creator, executive producer, and writer on this adaptation of Janice Y. K. Lee’s novel “The Expatriates.” The project features a notable cast, with Nicole Kidman working alongside acclaimed talents Sarayu Blue, Ji-young Yoo, Brian Tee, and Jack Huston; Kidman is also an executive producer.

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