Guests and staff at a tropical resort navigate intimate, darkly comic, and suspenseful drama with a measured pace.
Bleak, with dry wit. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Max.
The thing to know: strong sex and nudity, more than a TV-MA usually carries. Beyond that, some violence and frequent strong language.
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Follow the exploits of various guests and employees at an exclusive tropical resort over the span of a week as with each passing day, a darker complexity emerges in these picture-perfect travelers, the hotel’s cheerful employees and the idyllic locale itself.
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
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