it's gorgeous to look at it stars a 4,000 bedroom mansion on a beautiful stretch of us Coastline and it's packed with lavish Lifestyles funded by Fifth generational wealth there are cashmere knits in impractical colors plus more beautiful Coastline a murder that almost everyone in the vicinity had a motive to carry out and did I mention the beautiful Coastline we can only be in the presence of Nicole Kidman's latest vehicle this time it's called the perfect couple but you can think of it as big little lies relocated from montere California to Nantucket Massachusetts or as the undoing with plot or as nine perfect strangers but not Bonkers it is also as any Lux murder mystery is these days part the White Lotus which Kidman wasn't in but who can quite remember so what are the tweaks to the spec the perfect couple of the title are a best-selling romantic novelist name for some reason perhaps perhaps Abus of parents perhaps a case of Birdie worcester's raw work pulled at the font Greer Garrison windberry Kidman and tag leev shriber her husband of 29 years it is possible that they are not as perfect as they seem they have three sons Thomas Jack rer a piece of work Golden Boy Benji Billy how and youngster will Sam Nia who hadn't come in play in the episodes available to reviewers but rare indeed is the character in these chess lifee Productions that goes in used so we'll watch and wait for his move Benji is getting married to Amelia Eve Houston whom he loves madly even though she was brought up without sight of the sea and with no cashmere nits Greer is ially furious about this and is taking it out on everybody in the most waspy way possible by creating the perfect wedding for the pair admiring the fruit basket Amelia's parents bring as a gift and savaging the bride behind her back at every opportunity almost as Adept at slicing and dicing those who aren't born to the purple is Thomas's pregnant wife Abby Dakota Fanning having a wonderful time as a weakness seeking missile and The Wedding Planner Roger Tim baggley deeply enthrall to the glamour of his betters there I'm bored let's go byy a monkey Rich he says with Glee kill someone and get away with it rich subtle foreshadowing has its place but not here there is also the wibes faithful housekeeper Goa played by Irina DEA who is contemptuous of anyone who has not been born into or worked for the family for at least two generations and a particular admirer of Greer's type rein overall without fear there can be no control their interviews with the police intersect the action and shed sidelights on the main characters just as those of potential Witnesses and suspects did in big little lies it's equally effective added to this little lot is the hard part partying Made of Honor Meritt Monaco Megan fahe more raw work an $18,000 bracelet bought by tag but not given to his wife and lustful looks cast by Amelia at the best man shooter ishan Qatar there are many ignored calls to Greer from someone called bradick Graham pills and potree to all and a bloodstained shirt hidden under the bed of the police chief's daughter throw in Isabella Johnny as a longtime family friend and S Tex in human form and the stage is set for us to have a ludicrously good time in the very doest days of summer once the police investigation starts it becomes clear who the star of the show is neither Kidman nor the Mansion nor even the nits but donaly Champlain as de Nikki Henry what a performance every thought the detective is having about these awful people plays fleetingly across her face although never for long enough to jeopardies the case however much she hauls the local police chief Dan Michael Beach over the calls for cozying up to the family that funds so much activity in the community the perfect couple has a proper plot and some to spare the Carousel of suspects turns and reveals drop at perfectly spaced intervals if there is anyone who can resist binging all six episodes once they have started I will eat a fruit basket it may or may not have things to say about the halves and Have Nots the power of money to corrupt as well as class Consciousness but it doesn't have anything like the interest the White Lotus say tooken such questions it was adapted by Jamia from the book of the same name by Ellen hilderbrand who is known as the queen of the beach red lamia has kept exactly what makes such books great and presented us with a glorious ridiculous treat nothing to do but sit back and enjoy