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Positive:
13
Mixed:
12
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Critic Reviews
Sep 5, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Entertainingly absorbing and beautiful to look at, the show (created by Jenna Lamia and directed by Susanne Bier) has “general audience” written all over it and is a great example of what the genre can be when it’s handled with skill and wit. .... Amassive improvement from the source material.
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Sep 5, 2024
Season 1 Review:
There are times when “The Perfect Couple” exercises poetic license — one potential suspect after another eschews the presence of a lawyer so we can get some juicy and revealing interrogation scenes — but we’re in pure escapist territory here, so we don’t mind. Even the opening titles, with the full cast performing a loosely choreographed dance number to the sounds of Meghan Trainor’s “Criminals,” is something to see. This is one of the best limited series of 2024.
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Sep 6, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The Perfect Couple is operating so well on its own bizarro wavelength, with over-the-top performances, melodramatic dialogue, and sharply satirical characterizations of the ultrawealthy that make it feel tonally distinct — especially as it lacks the sympathy and sermonizing so many other series of this type labor under. Instead, The Perfect Couple has a tongue-in-cheek singularity that helps its episodes slide by.
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Sep 5, 2024
Season 1 Review:
While class differences are theoretically a major part of The Perfect Couple, its investigation of them doesn’t reveal much beyond the fact that wealthy people are often assholes. But even if the upper-crust world that the series conjures doesn’t provide much in terms of meaningful insight, it still makes for a richly detailed place to take in a sultry murder mystery.
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The Observer (UK)Sep 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Disappointingly, going by the first four episodes of The Perfect Couple, it’s a tad soft-boiled. For this sort of thing to work, as with The White Lotus, the script has to be dagger-sharp, merciless. When that attitude isn’t there in the writing, you sense timidity.
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Radio TimesSep 5, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The series is at its best in the earlier episodes, when we're getting to know the characters, the mystery is in its early stages and we're getting drip-fed twists. Unfortunately, it feels as though the series, or certainly the book upon which it was based, doesn't know where to stop in this department.
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Sep 5, 2024
Season 1 Review:
None of the performances are breakouts, but at least Reynor and Fanning have a delightful time playing a cocky married duo. But it honestly almost feels like the cast wanted a swanky vacation in Nantucket, and the results come off as confounding as some of Kidman’s recent TV choices.
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Sep 5, 2024
Season 1 Review:
While this miniseries has great performances from its A-listers and a few deliciously dysfunctional family moments, it ultimately feels like the streaming equivalent of an airport novel, just entertaining enough to keep your divided attention but already fading out of memory as airplane wheels hit the tarmac.
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RogerEbert.comSep 5, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It’s complication for complication’s sake, basically window dressing for a show that boils down to the idea that rich people are weird. Now there’s still some joy in watching but you’ll have to decide if you like Nicole Kidman enough to spend six hours with these terrible people.
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The IndependentSep 4, 2024
Movie NationSep 23, 2024
Season 1 Review:
“The Perfect Couple” has a thesis no one buys into, a dated grasp of media and scandal in the 2020s and characters that are more cartoons than flesh and blood folks with foibles. It’s a TV version of a bad “beach book,” making one wish one had spent these six hours doing something else, preferably on a beach.
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