SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for all episodes of “The Perfect Couple”. On a calm summer morning, a body washes up on the beach in Nantucket. A scream rips through the air – and a prominent family is immediately thrown into chaos. So ends the first episode of Netflix’s soap opera “The Perfect Couple”, […]
A fast-paced, quiet and wonderfully twisted crime thriller that deals with a whole range of issues – serious family problems, class prejudice, dangerous love affairs, long-hidden secrets that sow deep mistrust, and the complexity of police work in a city where the rich have disproportionate power – The perfect couplestarring Nicole Kidman, Live Schreiber and […]
“The Perfect Couple” has all the makings of a prestige drama like “Big Little Lies” or “The Undoing”: an all-star cast, a crime thriller that exposes the facade of an upper-class community, and, of course, Nicole Kidman. But Elin Hilderbrand’s adaptation had a very different start as a network pilot that initially went into development […]
The good news about The perfect coupleNetflix adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s novel about a death on a wedding weekend, is that the finale is a smash hit. The pace is rapid. The resolution is satisfying – hard to guess in the moment, but perfectly logical in hindsight. And the tone is wickedly funny as the […]
