Nicole Kidman’s Netflix Mystery ‘The Perfect Couple’ Is Profoundly Unserious in All the Best Ways: TV Review
variety.comAramide Tinubu When adapting novelist Elin Hilderbrand’s best-selling novel “The Perfect Couple” for Netflix, series creator Jenna Lamia could have made it an intense murder mystery, or leaned toward all the delicious bits that make the story an irresistible beach read.
Lamia chose the latter. “The Perfect Couple” follows Amelia Sacks (Eve Hewson), a zoologist who is marrying into the wealthy and esteemed Winbury family.
Unfortunately, when a body is discovered on the Winbury estate the morning after Amelia and Benji’s (Billy Howle) rehearsal dinner, the happy occasion quickly becomes a murder investigation.
As clues are unearthed, long-held secrets about the Winburys come to light in the most absurd ways, making way for a pulpy, overdramatized and entirely entertaining show. “The Perfect Couple” opens on Nantucket Island during a picturesque Fourth of July weekend.
Read more on variety.com