With ‘Babygirl,’ We Finally Have a Spiritual Successor to Connell’s ‘Normal People’ Chain

In an early scene in Babygirl, Nicole Kidman’s tightly wound She-EO Romy Mathis anxiously prepares for a motel rendezvous with her intern Samuel (Harris Dickinson). She wears a sheer blouse, a considered attempt to be sexually appealing to her much…