While one should mourn the unofficial “end” of summer, now that Labor Day weekend is in the rear view mirror, Netflix is doing us a solid. Its new series The perfect coupleStarring Nicole Kidman And Liv SchreiberThe TV version of “Beach Read” is as good as the series can be, allowing viewers to extend their escape into sunny mindlessness a little longer. (About six twisty episodes will take longer.)
Despite its decidedly summery aesthetic — much of the action takes place at the pool of a sprawling, seaside Nantucket mansion — there’s a comforting familiarity to the thrilling series. It means that you will be watching this show and you will have an unwavering suspicion that you have seen this show before.
It’s both lazy and, still, perfectly fine to call The perfect couple An attempt to replicate lightning in a B-grade (or, let’s be really honest, C-grade) bottle White lotus Or big little lies. White lotus The comparisons stem from the show’s nature of “wildly rich, impossibly attractive people behaving like total a-holes during the holidays”. Because it stars Kidman and centers around a dark, mysterious tragedy, it’s tempting to call. The perfect couple East-coast version of big little lies.
But considering the fact that everything from the series’ casting to its soap opera nature is as if someone cut pages from the scripts of those two series, mixed them up, and then stitched them together to create a new show, perhaps the best comparison is, again, Given Kidman’s involvement, HBO is Undo this. It’s a series that arrived with all the hype and promise of another juicy thriller, but which went off the rails with increasingly weird twists and characters whose behavior makes no sense.
That’s the vibe The perfect couple Serves, but is so confident in the mess that you can’t resist getting swept up in it.
Kidman Greer plays Garrison Winbury, a wildly successful writer—hence the jaw-dropping Nantucket estate—and Schreiber is her annoying, pothead husband, Tag. It’s the big weekend of the wedding of their son, Benji (Billy Howell), to his beautiful bride, Amelia (Eve Hewson), whom everyone in the family can barely hide their distaste for. That family consists of s–t-stirring Thomas (Jack Raynor) and his pregnant, smugly mean-girl wife Abby (Dakota Fanning), and youngest son Will (Sam Nivola).
The wedding means a motley cast of characters joining them on the island, including Amelia’s best friend and maid of honor Merritt (Meghan Fahy) and old family friend Shooter (Ishaan Khattar).
The grand celebration, however, is interrupted by a shocking tragedy, which I won’t spoil because it’s the big twist of the first episode and I don’t have the patience to spoil it. However, it’s also the catalyst for the entire plot of the rest of the series, so there’s not much else I can write about the show without giving it away. But suffice to say, The Big Thing That Happens unleashes Pandora’s family secrets, and no one is happy about it.
to see The perfect couple An interesting experience because the whole time, you can’t help thinking “this is rubbish”. But it is intense Trash, which, with its cast too well-starred for this material, elevates the series to the point that you won’t be embarrassed to watch it.
Did I enjoy watching it? I was regularly amazed by it. I enjoyed the ridiculousness of some of the twists and the actors’ attempts to sell them. He wants me to visit Nantucket, so now I have to figure out how to somehow afford it. And I wondered how many Nicole Kidmans roam the earth, or if she’s got some kind of time travel machine that we don’t know about. How is it possible to do as many projects per year as she does? And why, as busy as she is, does she choose to act so ordinary in a TV series?
however, The perfect couple Like Beach Reed, there is a guarantee. The minute you press play on this series, you know what you’re in for. And if you limit yourself to those expectations, it’s hard to imagine you’ll have a bad time.
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