Linda Holmes

And when you eventually see Nicole Kidman make her way into this story, she doesn't have a huge role until kind of the later episodes.

But when you see her make her way into this story in a serious way, it's because she's an attorney and she gets involved because there is some legal stuff around Bodhi's father and

It's not that Margot's situation isn't difficult.

It's that doing sex work is not what makes it difficult.

It's other things that make her situation difficult.

I think the way that they give her, like I said, all these people in her life who care about her, it becomes a kind of a...

I don't know.

It's like an, it's a wonderful life kind of, you know, even when other things are really, really bad, you at least have this group of people that cares about you.

It takes a village.

I did want to say one other thing about Nicole Kidman, which is, as Kristen mentioned, she's a wrestler turned lawyer.

And having watched Nicole Kidman play an awful lot of these kind of chilly, rich, ice in the veins characters.

kind of women on streaming shows in the last few years.

Like, Scarpetta is supposed to be like a fiery character, but there's something remote about her.

I found watching Nicole Kidman in this part, which is a little more fire in the belly.

She seems to be having a little more fun.

And I really welcomed that.

You know, this is a character who, you know, at one point you look at this and you see, you know, you're going from a scene that's like Michelle Pfeiffer, Elle Fanning, Nicole Kidman.

Then you go into another room and it's Marcia Gay Harden.

And it's like...

This is just a really cool collection of people.