On paper, everything about Netflix’s new — and much-hyped — mystery drama, The Perfect Couple, screams hit show. Much like Big Little Lies before it, it’s a hit book-turned-high-production-series. It’s centred around a murder in an elite community, and is set along a picturesque stretch of Stateside coastline. Also like its predecessor, it features a glam cast headed up by Nicole Kidman. Clearly, the streaming giant is set on replicating the successful formula of her previous show.
For its part, The Perfect Couple is adapted from Elin Hilderbrand’s best-selling 2018 novel, about the wealthy Windbury family. The title refers to its matriarch and patriarch (Kidman and Liev Schreiber) and the drama unfolds on the grounds of their picturesque clapboard house on the tiny island of Nantucket. Cue enviable antique-laden, nautical interiors.
