Nicole Kidman leads 'Nine Perfect Strangers' on quite a trip

Tune in to catch “Nine Perfect Strangers” and you’ll find drama and suspense

NEW YORK -- Tune in to catch “Nine Perfect Strangers” and you'll find drama and suspense. But underneath the hood you might also see some heady stuff, says star Nicole Kidman. “It kind of delves into some of the biggest existentialist questions,” she says. “What is reality? What place can you choose to exist in? Can we alter that? Is there another reality that we can access that maybe is a more desired reality?” The Hulu limited series that starts Wednesday is definitely ambitious, centering on nine troubled people attending a remote Northern California wellness retreat. Kidman plays Masha, the spa's mysterious guru who has an unusual treatment method involving psychedelics. The strangers include an unhappy romance writer, a former football star, a bored couple, a simmering-with-anger divorcee, a mysterious gay man and three members of a family grieving the loss of a fourth. Their 10-day retreat is told over eight episodes — like an Agatha Christie-style parlor mystery mashed with an adult “The Breakfast Club.”