The Perfect Couple , 2024 – A non-ideal detective starring Nicole Kidman. Viewing impressions. Possible spoilers.

Netflix, as usual, posted all 6 episodes on the premiere day. But everything is so long and boring that I watched for a long time. There is no sense of disappointment, I initially did not expect anything, but this series is definitely for one viewing. For those who haven’t watched it yet, I recommend to watch the first and the last series – you won’t lose anything, and 4 hours of your precious time will be saved. If not for Nicole’s participation in the project, the viewing for me would have ended right after the first episode.

The plot. Greer (Nicole Kidman) and Tag Winbury (Liev Schreiber) are the perfect couple. He is fabulously rich, she is fabulously beautiful and talented. They have been together for 29 years and have managed to raise three sons. Greer is the author of detectives, which are very popular with readers. Crowds of fans and paparazzi are constantly on duty at the gates of the villa. In the family holiday: the middle son – Benji, marries his beloved Amelia. But on the morning of the wedding day a corpse is found in the waters of the bay near Winbury’s house and instead of the wedding the investigation begins. Under suspicion are almost all members of the family.

The central characters are two – Greer and Amelia. Absolutely different women. Refined blonde Greer – always collected, restrained, every step thought out, every emotion weighed. Amelia is a bright cheerful brunette, emotional and open. Apparently Amelia’s openness and naturalness attracted Benji to her. Amelia is from a poor and simple family and she doesn’t fit into Greer’s ideal world, she would like a daughter-in-law from her own circle. Amelia begins her own murder investigation and uncovers a lot of unpleasant things about almost every member of the family. But most importantly, that there is no perfect couple. That all the wealth lies in trusts and Greer has been dragging the whole family down on himself and his affairs for years. Tag is mired in adultery. The eldest son Thomas is a slacker and a shirker, has spent all that he had and for the sake of money sleeps with an elderly friend of his father. There are few nice people in this family, including the maid Gosia and assistant Greer. Benji and the young, unspoiled Will are good.

By the way, Greer herself is sick of all these lies, she tells her publisher from the first episode that the sales of her books through the image of her and Tag as a perfect couple must be stopped. Living a lie, she can smell it from a mile away, so she doesn’t believe Amelia, doesn’t believe in her love for Benji and ends up being right. As for Amelia, she doesn’t really fit the role of a chamberlain of purity and truth. It is not clear why she agreed to this marriage, since she obviously does not love Benji, for the sake of money? But we’re shown her as selfless. If she fell in love with someone else, act, but Amelia’s behavior was very strange. In general, what Amelia wanted from this family remains undisclosed. She’s not a model of morality and dignity, so it’s not for her to judge Greer.

The detective component is weak. First of all, the murder takes place at the very beginning, when we don’t even know the characters yet, and the first sympathies or antipathies haven’t appeared yet. We don’t know the murdered at all. And then over the course of six episodes, flashbacks begin to tell us the story. Secondly, the Winbury family don’t need this investigation, they need to keep it quiet. Only Amelia wants to know the truth, and she gives the investigation key information. Thirdly, the murdered Merritt, Amelia’s friend, is not sympathetic to me as a whole, and I hate the kind of sneaky girl who wants to meddle in other people’s families for profit. The cunning girl quickly realized that the head of the family easily makes amorous relations. We won’t talk about love, why should Tag be loved? Not young, not clever, not particularly good-looking. The main advantage is the trust account. And of course, giving Tag an heir is a good way to provide for himself and his child, it’s an old story. She’s not the first, she’s not the last. Who is the murderer is clear from the first episode, maximum from the second, enough to listen carefully about the financial situation in the family and it is immediately clear who has the motive. Much more interesting is Greer’s past.

Greer’s terrible secret. It’s clear from the start that Greer is hiding something. That she wasn’t always a millionaire. This is a classic stamp in such movies: the more strict and heartless the future mother-in-law is with her daughter-in-law, the more skeletons in the mother-in-law’s closet, the more terrible secrets she has. So I’ve been waiting for something like this since the first episode. I don’t understand why she was so desperate to hide it all, with her talent and energy she would have done marathons like changing fate and stuff like that, but maybe she will do it, she has everything ahead of her. If the movie ended well for anyone, it was for Greer. Still quite young, energetic, talented, loved by the public. She’ll write a dozen books about strong women and live comfortably. That’s what I did not understand, so why she dragged this marriage 29 years on herself, it is like a suitcase without a handle – meaningless. But here, of course, it is worth remembering her family and what she had to go through before Tag, probably, compared to the hell of the past and this marriage seemed something good and even Tag had warm feelings for her.

I watched it and thought: why Isabelle Adjani, who is hard to recognize because of endless fillers and suspenders, was in this movie, and then I realized – against her background all the others look especially young and beautiful.

The series is so bad, the story in general is scary, but instructive. I recommend to watch only fans of Nicole Kidman, the rest are unlikely to reach the end anyway.

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