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Positive:
13
Mixed:
12
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews
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:
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:
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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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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