9 Excellent Strangers has gone all White Lotus. For the forthcoming second installment of David E. Kelley’s eerie thriller, the primary season of which was set at a picturesque Californian wellness retreat, the present is shifting to a shocking new location: the Swiss Alps. Nicole Kidman will, fortunately, return because the creepy Tranquillum Home founder Masha Dmitrichenko, however she’ll be joined by 9 new excellent strangers performed by a bunch of acquainted faces—together with Loopy Wealthy Asians’s Henry Golding and one former White Lotus star.

Murray Bartlett–who received an Emmy for his portrayal of the erratic Armond within the first, Hawaii-set installment of Mike White’s critically lauded satire, and not too long ago dazzled audiences in The Final of Us—has joined the ensemble, alongside Triangle of Unhappiness breakout Dolly de Leon, Cruella’s Mark Sturdy, Schitt’s Creek’s Annie Murphy, The Gilded Age’s Christine Baranski, and musician King Princess. They’ll star reverse Chocolat’s Lena Olin, Transatlantic’s Lucas Englander, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow’s Maisie Richardson-Sellers, and Turkish actor Aras Aydin. Kidman is poised to renew her duties as government producer, too.

Whereas the sequence’s first season was based mostly on Huge Little Lies creator Liane Moriarty’s compulsive page-turner of the identical identify (and initially envisioned as a restricted sequence), Season 2 received’t be grounded in any pre-existing supply materials. Per Deadline, it’ll comply with “the final formulation of the primary installment [with] 9 confused metropolis dwellers [trying] to get on a path to a greater way of life with a 10-day keep at a boutique wellness resort run by Masha, a girl on a mission to reinvigorate their drained minds and our bodies. Nevertheless, these 9 excellent strangers do not know what’s about to hit them.”

Contemplating that the primary installment featured the likes of Melissa McCarthy, Regina Corridor, Bobby Cannavale, Luke Evans, Michael Shannon, Samara Weaving, and Grace Van Patten, anticipate much more rising and established names to be forged within the coming weeks and months. Till then, right here’s to extra stealthy micro-dosing, demented sack races, disturbing visions, and jaw-dropping confessions.