Nine Perfect Strangers’ Finale Leaves the Door Open for Season 3 — Do You Hope to See It Return?

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The news that Nine Perfect Strangers would return for a second season came as quite the surprise back in 2023. Nearly two years had passed since Season 1 wrapped on Hulu, and those episodes — which were adapted from Liane Moriarty’s 2018 novel — seemed to tell a contained, one-and-done story.

Now that we’ve seen the show’s Season 2 finale, though, we can’t say we’d be nearly as shocked if Hulu opted to bring the Nicole Kidman drama back for a third go-round at some point. The final episode, which released on Wednesday, doesn’t end on a whopper of a cliffhanger or anything, but it does leave room for Kidman and Mark Strong’s characters to potentially return.

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In fact, Strong’s David Sharpe is the central focus of the sophomore ender, as he’s revealed to be the Zauberwald guest that’s linked to all of the others: His company, Signal Op, has damaged the lives of all the other retreat-goers in some form, like when Signal Op’s “smart bomb” killed Matteo’s entire family, or when Signal Op’s broadcast news channel aired the video of Brian’s meltdown on the Crabapple Clubhouse set. The list goes on. And when David is forced to confront all of these transgressions while under the influence of Masha’s new psychedelic technology, he promises to make things right by getting Signal Op out of the bomb-building business entirely and redirecting all of the company’s military-focused resources to charity and other wholesome endeavors.

To no one’s surprise, David backtracks on those promises once he’s sobered up the next day, telling Masha that it would be “laughably drastic” to divest Signal Op of its military contracts. “What a shame,” Masha replies — and she’s not done holding him accountable. Later, after all of the guests have left Zauberwald, Masha leaks the security camera footage of David’s night-before “I’ll never work with the military again!” breakthrough, and it takes no time at all for the footage to land on the news. (“Billionaire Acquires Conscience?” reads one chyron.) David’s furious with Masha, but she has no plans to rescind the videos.

One month later, Masha (who has since left Zauberwald in Martin’s possession) and David (who’s still very much a billionaire, despite the initial fallout from Masha’s footage) meet up at a McDonald’s in Bavaria, where David reveals that he wants to devote part of his company to psychedelic therapy… which requires Masha to sign a nondisclosure agreement. She’ll get a measly $100,000 out of it, but no equity or meaningful control in Signal Op’s psychedelic endeavors, so she’s not inclined to sign. David, though, has acquired some damning security camera footage of his own: Thanks to Martin, he’s now in possession of several video clips of Masha’s psychedelic therapy sessions going awry, including some incidents from Nine Perfect Strangers‘ first season, and he plans to release them if Masha doesn’t acquiesce. Plus, he assures her she doesn’t want a lengthy legal battle. He’ll win.

Masha does eventually sign the NDA, but she’s almost gleeful as she does so. She reminds David that they’re family — they’ll always share a daughter — and even if you don’t like your family, you can never truly get rid of them. So, she signs her name to the document, then pulls David in for a long kiss across the table. “I do,” Masha says with a smile, and the credits roll.

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You could certainly argue that the show tied up all its loose ends with this finale; the other Zauberwald guests, who I didn’t get into much here, left the retreat sufficiently healed, and maybe Masha and David’s new business entanglement can be left unexplored. But given where Season 2 ends, and the many possible ramifications of Masha and David’s deal, an eventual Season 3 — releasing four more years from now, we suppose — feels like a real possibility.

That’s our take, but what’s yours? How did you feel about the Season 2 finale, and would you want Nine Perfect Strangers to come back for more episodes? Grade the conclusion in our poll below, then hit the comments with all your thoughts!

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