The six chapters of The perfect couple The story takes place in a beautiful landscape and in an even more beautiful and luxurious mansion. We are talking about the island of Nantucket, with a very Edward Hopper look, after all it is located about 50 kilometers south of Cape Cod, the place that so often inspired the painter. The wedding of one of the sons of Greer Garrison (Nicole Kidman), a powerful and rich matriarch, and Tag Winbury (Liev Schreiber) her useless and alcoholic husband is going to take place. The preparations for the wedding are perfect due to the meticulous perfectionism of the hostess. Everything exudes glamour and everything collapses when the corpse of one of the guests is found. Goodbye to luxury, hello to the police investigation.
With a good script by Jenna Lamia, creator of the series that Netflix exhibits based on the adaptation of the novel by Elin Hilderbrand, the plot is full of suspects who end up being false, or, to put it in cinephile terms: a parade of Hitchcockian McGuffins that allows the viewer’s interest to be maintained, probably the greatest desire of the creators of television fictions. Nothing to do with that absurd controversy surrounding David Broncano’s change of channel, a topic that has made rivers of ink flow in these parts without, probably, maintaining the slightest interest from the viewer, because questioning at this point that someone would accept a better economic and audience offer, key in television, is nothing but foolishness.
Returning to The perfect couple It is worth highlighting the work of the sober and tenacious police inspector (Donna Lynne Champlin) who will succeed in unraveling the mystery at the same time as her investigations will reveal the miseries of those who appear to have an impeccable life and a perfect relationship, lives that could be defined in two words: infidelity and greed, since the last of the motives for the murder is none other than money. And a secondary fact: there is no doubt that Nicole Kidman’s plastic surgeon is much better than Isabelle Adjani’s, who has been left unrecognizable by too much Botox. No one doubts her acting abilities, although they are far from the vital integrity of Anna Magnani when she asked her makeup artist on the set: “Leave me the wrinkles, don’t take away a single one. It took me a lifetime to get them.”
