Nicole Kidman stars in this sunny murder mystery, an adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s 2018 novel.
How to watch The Perfect Couple in New Zealand
The Perfect Couple is streaming in New Zealand exclusively on Netflix from September 5, with all six episodes dropping at once.
The Perfect Couple: Season 1
What is The Perfect Couple about?
Set, like the bulk of Hilderbrand’s work, in picturesque Nantucket, Massachusetts, at the height of the summer wedding season, The Perfect Couple starts in beach-read romance territory before quickly shifting gears and becoming a murder mystery. We find ourselves in the lead up to the 4th of July weekend marriage of middle-class Amelia Sacks to Benji Winbury, scion of a ridiculously wealthy family whose matriarch, Greer Garrison Winbury, who is a successful mystery novelist.
When a body turns up on the beach, wedding plans are put on hold while detective Nikki Henry tries to figure out whodunnit. This being a gathering of a whole heap of disgustingly wealthy and powerful people, there’s no shortage of motives to unravel and dark secrets to discover.
The cast of The Perfect Couple
Nicole Kidman is Greer Garrison Winbury; Eve Hewson is blushing bride Amelia Sacks; Billy Howle is husband-to-be Benji; Donna Lynne Champlin is our dogged detective, Nikki Henry; Liev Schreiber is Greer’s philandering husband, Tag; Dakota Fanning is Abby Winbury, Benji’s sister; Meghann Fahy as Merritt Monaco, Amelia’s BFF; with Ishaan Khattar, Jack Reynor, Sam Nivola, Mia Isaac, Isabelle Adjani, and Michael Beach on hand to fill out the roster of family, friends, cops, and suspects.
The Perfect Couple trailer
Why we’re excited about The Perfect Couple
Boy, we love seeing rich people do bad things, don’t we? Succession, The White Lotus, Triangle of Sadness, and so on – we have to believe that the elite harbour darkness and misery within them. If that’s your jam, you’re going to want to binge this one—and the stellar cast ensures that even casual viewers will be well entertained.
