New Financial Year 2024/2025 Streaming - The Perfect Couple - Miniseries

The Perfect Couple is the Netflix miniseries everyone is talking about.

With an all-star cast, including Australia's own, Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Eve Hewson, and Dakota Fanning

Like Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers for Kidman, the six episode romp, is an adaptation of the 2018 novel of the same name by Elin Hilderbrand.

Landing earlier this month on Netflix, I just caught up with this. What's the basic plot before the trailer? A lavish wedding in Nantucket ends tragically before it even begins when a body washes up on the beach the morning of the ceremony, and everyone staying at the house for the weekend is a suspect.

So this is pure Desperate Housewives style trashy TV. Kicking off with Greer Winbury, a rich author with three kids and a seemingly perfect marriage. 

The day of the rehearsal dinner of her son who is going to marry Amelia. The wedding is supposed to take place at the Greer mansion where the rehearsal dinner is also being hosted. It is revealed in the that there has been a murder and the local police are investigating. 

Amelia has invited her best friend Merritt to the wedding as her maid of honor who arrives with Shooter—the best man and the groom's best friend. 

The entire episode Amelia watches Merritt and Shooter being playful together and looks at Shooter longingly. She also reveals to her best friend Merritt that she does not feel addicted to Benji as a girl who is about to be married should. 

Meanwhile, Greer, Benji's mom, reveals to Benji that she is not a fan of Amelia and that she is not sure if Amelia really loves Benji. Benji stands up to his mom to fight for Amelia. 

At the end of episode one, it is revealed that the girl who was murdered is Merritt. Amelia is the first to find Merritt's body on the beach and goes into shock upon realising she is dead.

WARNING, spoilers ahead!!!

In the fianle, That Feels Better, Greer and her team ponder how to spin the launch incident and reporters swarm Summerhall, the police take her in for questioning, theorising that she hired Broderick to kill Merritt and had Shooter—who has diplomatic immunity—pay for the hit. 

Abby confronts Thomas about his relationship with Isabel and Amelia calls Shooter to apologize for her uncertainty. Greer confesses that Broderick is her brother and the money was to cover his debts. She admits Broderick's existence and that she was an escort when she met Tag to her family and agent.

Amelia's mother had brought pentobarbital pills, but one pill is missing. Thomas stole the pill and initially planned to spook Merritt into aborting the baby, as the sons' access to the family trust would be delayed by 18 years if Tag sires another child. 

Isabel produces video evidence that she and Thomas were together at the time of the death, which contradicts Abby's testimony that Thomas was in bed. 

Abby—who had drugged and drowned Merritt to ensure access to Thomas's inheritance—is arrested. Greer separates from Tag. Months later, Amelia is working at the London Zoo and meets Greer, who has written a book about Amelia.

Honestly, by the end of this series, I thought, what the hell did I just watch. I'm still not 100% sure what I just watched. This is escapism TV at best. It looks fancy, but it is fairly average. The old saying about Netflix, quantity over quality is definitely true here.