A series that guarantees that it makes it a binge if it is not yet one
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If there is something that Netflix’s new gift for its viewers The perfect coupleHe manages to do well from the jump, he is making you a binge if you are not yet one. It is almost a challenge: can you exceed six episodes in a single session? The answer is yes. It is addictive from the first moment with that glorious Bollywood style dance sequence in initial loans. If the six full hours were only that sequence in repetition, I would hit the screen without shame.
Money, money, money
Immediately, the main player is presented: money. It is not just a backdrop, it is practically a character, giving life to the reasons for each of the gloriously dysfunctional sets. As well as the happiness of an agatha Christie Whodunit crossed with the dark hilarity of The white lotusMoney is the invisible hand that guides each secret, struggle of power and, of course, murder. Of course, it has no face, but it is omnipresent, like a perfectly careful puppeteer in the shadows, pulling all the strings.
The configuration is real estate at its expression: a mansion (which has at least 50 rooms) perched on the Nantucket coast. He is organizing a bigger event than a real wedding, where Nicole Kidman, playing Greer Garrison Winbury, takes her role as a very serious matriarch. Greer is the epitome of rich and frost perfection, smiling through the tightened teeth in the imminent marriage of his second son, Benji (Billy Howle), with Amelia (Eve Hewson), a girl who is, in educated terms, a “Digger de Oro” in Greer’s eyes. But for her joy, the wedding does not leave the ground due to the body that is washed on the beach in the morning. And in the mysterious fashion of classic murder, all are suspicious. No one is out of the hook here, and everyone has a reason.
Susanne Bier, who gave us that brilliant Hugh Grant and Kidman-Starrer The ruinReturn with another luxury offer. This time, bets feel even higher, thanks to their effort without effort on the narration that gives us a mystery of murder where, in some way, suspicions of all, but no one at the same time. And although some of the same gender make it guess correctly around half, it does not allow it.
Cracks on the facade
Kidman, as Greer, is back in his favorite role: the woman rich in danger. She is an incredibly successful mysterious writer whose main claim of fame is the adventures of her fictitious partner Dash and Dolly. Dash, of course, is modeling in her ridiculously rich husband, Tag (Liev Schreiber). But this is where things get spicy: Greer’s externally perfect marriage is the opposite. His empire, based on love and mystery stories, begins to decipher as secrets bubble towards the surface.
It is not just Greer’s cold perfection that keeps you hooked. They present us to the rest of the characters in rapid succession. There is his eldest son Thomas (Jack Reynor), a warning story of what happens when they raise you in dysfunction. He is married to Abby (Dakota Fanning), who finds joy to see the others twist, a game made in heaven. Then there is the youngest son, Will (Sam Nivola), who, well, if he flats, you could miss all his story. And let’s not forget the family’s selection of friends: Merritt (Meghann Fahy), Shooter (Ishaan Khatter) and Isabel (Isabelle Adjani). Together, they form a perfectly toxic mixture of suspects, all with varying degrees of secrets and lies that keep him guessing.
Privileged information and detective
But the true heart winner? Gosia, the housekeeper a lot of time. Gosia’s disgust for anyone outside the Winbury’s internal circle is palpable, especially when Amelia’s parents, Karen (Dendrie Taylor) and Bruce (Michael Mcgrary), waltz with their fruit basket bought in the store (panting!) . His comment is brutal: it is so fast to fire a character for “making her bed as a poor person”, since she must blank her eyes to the disease conveniently “dying” of Karen that forced the wedding to be reprogrammed . She is also a particular admirer of the faithful of Greer especially. “Without fear, there can be no control,” he tells the police. And Greer does well to instill fear, in his family and at the audience. Its staunch look and wild comments carries through the screen that spectators wishing that they never end up with such a mother -in -law.
The real tension is activated once the police get involved, and it is not the striking mansion or Kidman’s glorious wardrobe that steals the show. No, the star is Donna Lynne Champlin as detective Nikki Henry, the police detective whose expression changes very well with each new absurdity that is forced to endure of this strangely privileged crowd. Nikki’s interactions with local police chief, Dan (Michael Beach), are a master class in professional frustration. She knows that she faces a system manipulated by the rich, and although she could put her eyes secretly, she is acute as a tactic and more than willing to overcome each comadreja rich in her path.
While The perfect couple It offers a lot of decay coated with puppy, sarcastic comments and family drama, the mystery itself is fine. The great revelation is not the amazing turn that you could expect, it is more a slow burn that finally strives. It works, of course, but in the great scheme of murder mysteries, it is not reinventing the wheel. That said, he gave him the horrible horror of all the characters, you really do not care about the issue, everyone deserves to be in jail for their great deplorability.
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