‘The Perfect Couple’ review: A dream cast animate an imperfect mystery
The six-episode limited series is out on Netflix.
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Elin Hilderbrand’s best-selling novel The Perfect Couple has all the ingredients for a convenient screen adaptation – a picturesque Nantucket setting, an easy-to-despise wealthy family, and a murder with no shortage of suspects. For Indian viewers, the Netflix series of the same name has an added enticement: the high-wattage cast includes Indian actor Ishan Khatter.
Khatter’s Shooter Dival is among the guests at a wedding that gets derailed by a crime. Khatter confidently plays a strong-and-silent hunk with an allure to him.
Shooter’s richie-rich friend Benji (Billy Howle) is marrying middle-class Amelia (Eve Hewson), a union that Benji’s flinty mother Greer (Nicole Kidman) openly dislikes. The naive Amelia’s equation with Benji – they seem to have little in common – is dubious enough at times to justify Greer’s suspicions.
Is Greer and her brood, especially her brash elder son Thomas (Jack Reynor) and Thomas’s catty wife Abby (Dakota Fanning), secretly relieved when Amelia’s pretty bridesmaid Merritt (Meghann Fahy) turns up dead?
Surely the investigation led by police chief Dan (Michael Beach) and detective Nikki (Donna Lynne Champlin) is less of a bother than the prospect of letting an unsuitable outsider into the family secrets?
Greer’s slow-moving, sharp-talking husband Tag (Liev Schreiber) seems to have the most to hide. He is...
