The Perfect Couple (Season 1, Netflix, 2024)

[Music] starting on Netflix with a new thriller series arriving on Thursday the 5th of September it's called the perfect couple Hannah and here's a clip is there something that you want to tell [Music] me all feels a little dramatic for an accidental drowning why do you ask people to sign ndas pardon they're rich kill someone and get away with their Rich oh there's a bit of star power in this Hannah you've got Nicole Kidman yes and You' got leave shriber and they are playing a wealthy married couple is six-part Thriller um it's about beautiful and wealthy people but also murder so the setup is well it's a beautiful backdrop it's at this New England beachfront estate uh which is owned by um Kidman's character grea they've all got quite weird names in this she's a novelist and her husband tag played by shriber and it's all very exciting because one of her three sons uh Benji played by Billy how who looks very like dominal gleon I I think in fact initially I thought it was him but it isn't um so yes he's getting married and they're doing that weird thing that Americans do they're having the um wedding rehearsal dinner odd isn't it we don't do that over here do we Hannah it's a dysfunctional family of course it is the celebrations are going to be cut short when a body washes up on the beach it's going to flash sort of flash back quite a lot because we'll have the discovery of the body but we'll also see what's happening with all the guests running up to it the tensions between the family and kind of the brides having doubts and she's talking to her maid of honor and the sort of the one of the brothers is a particularly nasty piece of work he wants to get some money from his dad and he's being really horrible to the groom so yes we we're getting to know all these sort of Dynamics and then we're also going to be going forward to when each person is being questioned by the police because to be honest I mean you don't know whose body washes up until the end of episode one and obviously I'm not going to tell you that because that would ruin it but yeah quite a lot of people could have a motive so it's very glossy it's very Starry it's very it's uh it's got also got toota Fanning as uh Benji's pregnant sister-in-law and it's directed by the Oscar winning suzan beer who works with Kidman on um the series The undoing it's got a sense of humor to it it's quite slightly Wicked side quite tongue and cheek I think it looks great it's a bit of a sort of melodramatic pot boiler in some ways and it's got some great kind of on Liners in it as well some really kind of on liners if I were to pick out a negative I would say I mean it's not space to be realistic anyway but but some of the things the people say when they're being interviewed by the police for instance saying who they'd want to have sex with ah I don't that wouldn't happen but but it all heightens the drama so possibly file under guilty pleasures I don't know but um yeah very enjoyable what do you think Hannah yeah I mean it's as you say it's got massive star wattage hasn't it I mean uh and and as I always say when the heads are turned of some of these um people you know it has to be good although having said that I think leave shba had to be actually um kind of cajoled into it by Nicole Kidman um because I don't think they were that Keen on doing it um but do you know what I it I mean the narrative is a bit odd in places but it doesn't matter to me I think it I think it works as you say it's kind of something unusual we don't do that in this country um with that sort of um pre-wedding wedding thing going on and you know a body wash the one thing that always makes me laugh is everything seems to be set in N Tucket um I've noticed that in a lot of books it obviously is the is the place to be the sort of you know or perhaps not with when a body washes up but yeah it's interesting it's got lots of different layers um and and and I thought it was fun yes and Kidman excels as this very snobby matriarch she's she's having a ball [Music]