Review of The Perfect Couple

If you’re new here and found this blog through the mysterious powers of the Internet, welcome! My name is Ashley, and I’m a dedicated reader and movie watcher who thought to turn this website into a little digital archive of sorts.

I was watching and reading so much that I wanted to keep track of it all, so I began blogging as a way to keep these books as memories somewhat forever. I recently fell into a bout of unemployment, which was unexpected, so I’ve been devoting more time to the blog and catching up on my hobbies.

I’m thankful to make a tiny bit of money off of the display ads on this site, so if you like what you’re reading, feel free to click around and see if there’s anything else you would like to explore. Thankfully, before the unemployment, I was able to save quite a bit of money, and I was financially fine to take a few months off before jumping back into a job.

This blog post is going to come out when I hopefully have a job due to the backlog of posts I have to get out. I’ve been reading about a book a day and watching quite a few television episodes here and there.

But one of the themes of late 2024 and 2025 for me is diversification. I want to diversify the kinds of genres, perspectives, and countries of the books, movies, and shows I’m reading/watching, so I want to go for content I typically would not go for.

And that was how I ended up watching The Perfect Couple. I was interested in the mystery and thriller elements, and this is not a show I usually go for. But it was right there on Netflix, recommended for me, so I decided to go for it because why not? It also helped that it was only six episodes.

Let’s get into the review! I don’t want to ramble too much in the introduction.

At an upper class wedding, a woman is found dead, sparking animosity.

This series takes place on Nantucket, a symbol of American wealth, and our main family is considered to be the ideal family. They’re wealthy, some of the richest families on the island, and the matriarch, Greer, is a successful novelist and author. She has three kids, the perfect husband, and a gorgeous home on the island.

When her son is Benji is getting ready to marry Amelia, who is more of a commoner than the rest of them, the show opens with their rehearsal dinner. Amelia brings her best friend Merritt to the wedding, and she arrives with Shooter, who she seems to have quite the chemistry with. It’s through Amelia’s conservations with Merritt that we learn she isn’t as love with Benji as she should be, and she’s getting cold feet.

At the same time, Greer tells her son she doesn’t really like Amelia that much, and she has doubts as to whether Amelia loves him or not. Her son doesn’t react well to this, but then the murder victim, which we learned about at the beginning of episode one, is Merritt. She was killed in the night, and Amelia was the one who found her body on the beach the next morning.

What was supposed to be a celebratory wedding then becomes days full of suspicion, especially when the family is not allowed to leave, as they’re all suspects. Shooter tries to leave the island, as well as the very pregnant Abby, but neither are allowed to. Greer wants to frame all of this as a suicide, and we move into the present day, where more drama is unfolding.

Let’s pause the summary there, as the rest of the series is uncovering the secrets of the family members, as one of them definitely had to have done it. Everyone has their suspicions, but there are also some other major problems cropping up, as the notion of perfection doesn’t actually exist in reality.

What might make the perfect couple or the perfect family could be what tears them down in the end, especially as we learn more about them. Money also doesn’t really buy happiness, which is something we’re taught endlessly, despite pursuing money relentlessly, but it’s examples like these that prove it to me.

Overall Thoughts

I found the reveal of the killer to be slightly anticlimactic, but I was thrown off the trail of who it was throughout the course of the series. Although the show in general is kind of anticlimactic, it can be fun with the right mindset. I enjoyed it somewhat; I thought the plot wasn’t the best though.

I’ve been seeing a lot of Nicole Kidman in late 2024 and early 2025, and I honestly haven’t been too impressed with what I’ve been watching. Sure, I haven’t seen Babygirl at the time of typing this little post out, but the other shows and movies I watched weren’t exactly the greatest.

I do quite love Dakota Fanning in her role though. I love Fanning’s work (both of them, if we’re going to not be specific about which Fanning), and I would watch her in most roles. I think they’re so talented, even though sometimes they lean into specific archetypes.

Watch this one if you’re interested. I don’t know if it’s worth it entirely if you’re not, but it’s only six episodes, so give an episode or two a chance. Form your own opinions; taste is so subjective, and you might disagree with a random Internet stranger.

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