Please Cover Your Eyes If You’re Not Ready to Be Spoiled: The Famous, Cute Couple at the Heart of Netflix D Perfect couple Not perfect, nor is the show specifically about said couple.
To be clear, the series basically exists because if you’re half paying attention to it while scrolling your phone, Perfect couple Two good events can be mistaken for: big lie And white lotus. Just like those splashy HBO hits, Perfect couple around the center A corpse that shatters the life of a very wealthy Caucasian man. Likewise, the female characters on the show are married to pieces of human trash who may or may not be murderers. And at its center is a very unstable, very rich woman on the verge of a complete meltdown.
Of course, viewers are here for Oscar and Emmy winner Nicole Kidman, whose wigs are always full of secrets. This time, she’s playing a matriarch with only three last names and a part of Nantucket’s wealthiest family.
Perfect couple Many culminate in a final twist: a sex-action-related origin story; a barbiturate-laced drink and a dip; an illegitimate child; and disclosure of a complex trust fund situation. But perhaps more surprising than any of the series’ twists is the one it tells about Nicole Kidman herself. Kidman has starred in six television series over the past four years. Four of the series involve rich white women and a suspicious death, if not a murder mystery.
“I was one es-scort!” Kidman’s grizzled Garrison Winbury screams in the final episode, explaining to her family that she’s a sex worker and that their father and potential killer, Tag (Liev Schreiber), is a John.
“Three times! ok? And now I pay for eve-r-thing!” she hisses (Kidman’s accent jumps three syllables from Australia to Boston), revealing that Greer has Garrison Winbury’s receipt. “I’m not clearing everything for you. I’m done with your ego. I’m done with your bullshit. I’m done are you listening to me? Done I’m not taking care of everything for everybody anymore.” It’s all snarky, over the top — far more deliriously delicious than all the next-to-murder women Kidman has played in recent years.
The two seasons mentioned big lie Starring Kidman as Celeste Wright, a wealthy ex-lawyer now living in Monterey with an abusive, adulterous, and recently deceased husband, all based on the novel by Leanne Moriarty. In the 2020s predicamentAlso in an adaptation, she played Grace Fraser, a wealthy Manhattan psychologist with an adulterous, murderous husband. Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers (2021) is another Moriarty adaptation. In that one, Kidman plays chilling wellness coach Masha Dmitrichenko, who drugs guests at her retreat with psilocybin and is shot (but not killed) once. In expatriate, Adapted from a 2016 novel by Janice Wyke Lee, which premiered on Amazon this year, Kidman stars as Margaret Wu, a neglected wife who is grieving the kidnapping (and death) of her son and investigating a recently deceased neighbor as a possible kidnapper-pedophile-murderer. doing .
If there’s ever a story where a scrappy rich white woman is aloof but close to the most despicable hijinks, Nicole Kidman, her agent and a streaming service aren’t far behind. Bonus points if it’s based on a book Moriarty read and wrote called A Beach.
Kidman’s choices and work ethic have come under little scrutiny. He’s not making enough serious Stuff and maybe a little more television for one serious actress, The argument goes. But this diminishes an actress who has already won top awards in both films and television, and this too Production of the show He is acting. She’s doing what she wants to do, and from sharp quips to chewy monologues about how many times she’s accused her current husband of having sex, she seems to be having a lot of fun creating these uncomfortable melodramas. And Kidman became famous Admit it’s role playing for fun!
The more you look at Kidman’s various blonde lace fronts and accents, the more it seems like she’s joking or somewhat committed, letting go of illness and rage. death by Stealing the spotlight with his routine portrayal of these soap heroes. Greer plays Garrison Winbury in his latest role in a story where death serves as a great counterpart, as it’s the only thing the rich can’t use to hide their million dollars (especially if the SOB husband is a murderer).
What is it about murder mystery and rich women talking to Nicole Kidman? Does he like television more than movies? Have some fun playing rich women with creepy, possibly murderous husbands? He really wants to be a season white lotus But simply too famous?
We’re free to draw our own conclusions as to why, but that Kidman keeps giving us these six- to eight-episode seasons as breadcrumbs is part of the fun.
