‘Expats’ Review: Nicole Kidman Headlines Ambitious, Shrewd Portrait of Alienation in Hong Kong

In the fifth episode of “Expats,” the Prime Video limited series from writer and director Lulu Wang, the show at once zooms in and scales back. The sprawling, ambitious penultimate installment of the series is a 97-minute doozy that, in a show that is already remarkably cinematic throughout, deviates partly to become its own sort of standalone film. Whereas the series has been circulating around the trauma, tragedies, and foils of a collection of wealthy expatriates living in Hong Kong, this episode frequently shifts the camera to the periphery: to the workers that serve them; to the political protests circa 2014; to the varied lives and textures that make up the city.