‘The Perfect Couple’: Nicole Kidman Helms Netflix’s Best Whodunit Of 2024

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The Perfect Couple is the Netflix mini-series everyone will be talking about when it premieres in September. Set on the island of Nantucket, this murder mystery will have everyone guessing when a body is discovered just hours before the most-anticipated wedding of the season. Suddenly, everyone on the bride and groom’s side is a suspect.

Beneath the facade of the dune-backed beaches, where the wealthy spend their summers, is a family with more secrets than money can cover up. Though everyone is picture-perfect and happy on the surface, secrets and motives are aplenty. This is where the rich go to play but the rules of the game do not apply to everyone. As the viewer becomes privy to what each member of this family is hiding, it becomes abundantly clear that several of the guests have dark secrets.

The Perfect Couple is based on ‘Queen of the Beach Read’ Elin Hilderbrand’s New York Times bestseller and stars Nicole Kidman as famous mystery novelist Greer Garrison Winbury. Though Greer is used to covering up secrets, especially those of her philandering husband Tag (Ray Donovan’s Liev Schreiber), she may be over her head this time around.

Side Note: There’s nothing Kidman can’t do. She shines in the whodunit genre. Remember The Undoing and of course, Big Little Lies? She’s also phenomenal when it comes to comedy. Have you seen her in the Netflix hit A Family Affair? More than 27 million Netflix subscribers binge-watched the laugh-out-loud rom com within its first three days on the platform.

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Tag and Greer have invited their nearest and dearest to their family’s historic seaside estate, Summerland, for the lavish wedding of their son Benji (Billy Howle) and his soon-to-be wife, Amelia Sacks (Eve Hewson, who starred in the Netflix hit Behind Her Eyes). Everyone knew this would be a wedding to remember but no one could have guessed just how memorable!

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Though Amelia is about to marry into one of the wealthiest families on Nantucket, her life is anything but ideal and she soon learns that there is no such thing as a perfect couple. As secrets come to light, the stage is set for an investigation that feels plucked from the pages of one of Greer’s novels.

The six-episode limited series will premiere on Netflix on Thursday, September 5 and this one should come with a warning label to block off your calendar because once you start the binge you cannot stop.

Eve Hewson as Amelia Sacks and Meghann Fahy as Merritt Monaco in ‘The Perfect Couple’ on Netflix.

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The entire cast is phenomenal, including Meghann Fahy (a new favorite from The White Lotus) as Amelia’s best friend Merritt Monaco, Dakota Fanning portrays Amelia’s future sister-in-law Abby Winbury, Ishaan Khatter is the wild card best friend of the groom Shooter Dival, Jack Reynor is Benji’s troublemaking brother Thomas Winbury, Sam Nivola as Greer’s youngest son Will Winbury, Michael Beach as the local Chief of Police who will stop at nothing to solve the mystery alongside Donna Lynne Champlin as Detective Nikki Henry, and longtime family friend (or frenemy?) Isabelle Adjani.

This brilliantly addictive limited series comes from director and executive producer Susanne Bier and showrunner, writer, and executive producer Jenna Lamia. Hilderbrand serves as executive producer alongside Shawn Levy for 21 Laps Entertainment, Gail Berman and Hend Baghdady for The Jackal Group, Kidman and Per Saari for Blossom Films, and Josh Barry.

Mark your calendars for the most interesting and sure-to-be unforgettable wedding of the season!