"Nicole Kidman is starring in yet another project, this time a Prime Video detective series premiering on March 11. In Scarpetta - no relation to the Italian restaurant - Kidman plays Kay Scarpetta, a chief medical examiner coming out of retirement for one last job, "because I didn't like the way I left things last time around." It's the kind of show where she wears coats. It's the kind of show where she furiously pushes things off of a shelf."
"It's the type of show where her accent is maybe meant to be ever-so-slightly southern but really it's hard to tell and you second-guess yourself and wonder, Maybe that's just what she sounds like now? It's the type of show where she stares out the window of the car and asks Bobby Cannavale, "Is it a second chance? Or am I just looking to mess myself up again?""
"Despite being our nation's leading spokeswoman for the magic of the movies, Kidman is constantly releasing straight-to-streaming films and shows. In the past two years, she's starred in A Family Affair and Spellbound on Netflix, Holland and Expats on Prime Video, and second seasons of Lioness on Paramount+ and Nine Perfect Strangers on Hulu as well as something called The Last Anniversary for something called Binge (Australian, naturally)."
Nicole Kidman stars in Scarpetta, a Prime Video detective series premiering March 11. She plays Kay Scarpetta, a chief medical examiner who comes out of retirement for one last job, saying, "because I didn't like the way I left things last time around." The trailer highlights genre clichés: heavy coats, dramatic shelf-pushing, an ambiguous attempt at a southern accent, and a contemplative car-window moment that asks, "Is it a second chance? Or am I just looking to mess myself up again?" A social media critic labeled the trailer "kidmanslop." Kidman has frequently released straight-to-streaming films and series across multiple platforms in the past two years.
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