Nicole Kidman’s ‘The Perfect Couple’ Is Perfect Trash TV

Should anyone be mourning the unofficial “end” of summer, now that Labor Day weekend is in the rear view mirror, Netflix is doing us a solid. Its new series The Perfect Couple, starring Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber, is as much a TV version of a “beach read” as a series can be, allowing viewers to extend their escape to sunny mindlessness for just a bit longer. (For about as long as bingeing six twisty episodes will take.)

Aside from its decidedly summer aesthetic—a large portion of the action takes place at a pool at a massive, beachside Nantucket mansion—there’s a cozy familiarity to the thriller series. That is to say you’ll be watching and have the unshakable suspicion that you’ve seen this show before.

It’s both lazy and, still, completely apt to call The Perfect Couple a B-grade (or, let’s really be honest, C-grade) attempt to replicate the lightning in a bottle of The White Lotus or Big Little Lies. The White Lotus comparisons stem from the “wildly rich, impossibly attractive people behaving like total a--holes during a holiday” nature of the show. Because it stars Kidman and centers around a dark, mysterious tragedy, it’s tempting to call The Perfect Couple an east-coast version of Big Little Lies.

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