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Rachel Seo SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for all episodes of “The Perfect Couple.” On a quiet summer morning, a body washes up on a Nantucket beach. A scream splits the air — and a prominent family is immediately plunged into chaos. So ends the first episode of Netflix’s soapy drama series “The Perfect Couple,” based on the novel of the same name by bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand.

The Perfect Couple is getting a second season!

The Perfect Couple is becoming an anthology. Following the success of the limited series, starring and executive produced by Nicole Kidman and directed and executive produced by Susanne Bier, Netflix is developing a second installment.

Jennifer Garner is heading to Peacock!

Peacock has handed a series pickup to The Five-Star Weekend, a drama starring and executive produced by Jennifer Garner (The Last Thing He Told Me, Yes Day), from UCP.

Audible Premium Plus, is offering a holiday deal that brings down the price of standalone service to only $0.99/month for the first three months — a total of less than $3 — down from its usual price of $14.95/month. This deal, which runs from Oct. 1 through Jan.

EXCLUSIVE: Billy Howle is so at home playing characters wading through pools of anger and angst that he had an “alien feeling” while playing idle rich boy Benji Winbury in Netflix hit The Perfect Couple.

Netflix’s The Perfect Couple has been one of the streamer’s biggest hits in recent months, but can fans expect a second season?All six episodes of the miniseries premiered on the platform on September 5, developed by Jenna Lamia and directed by Susanne Bier (The Night Manager, The Undoing, Bird Box).Based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Elin Hilderbrand, it tells the story of a couple’s lavish wedding plans in Nantucket, Massachusetts that go awry when a member of the wedding party’s body washes up on the beach on the morning of the ceremony.Nicole Kidman plays the family matriarch Greer Garrison Winbury, a famous novelist, and the cast also includes Liev Schreiber, Eve Hewson, Meghann Fahy, Jack Reynor and Dakota Fanning.Despite the show’s serious dramatic themes, Bier insisted that the cast shot a flashmob-style dance sequence for the show’s opening credits, set to Meghan Trainor’s ‘Criminals’. The cast were far less enthusiastic, even setting up a WhatsApp group to try to get out of it.As mentioned, The Perfect Couple is based on a novel that does not have a sequel.

The newly released Netflix show The Perfect Couple has garnered a mixed bag of reviews, with some dubbing it one of the streamer's most 'bingeable' productions to date, reports the Irish Star.

Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber lead the cast in Netflix’s The Perfect Couple.Based on the novel by Elin Hilderbrand, the miniseries sees a couple’s lavish wedding plans in Nantucket go awry when a body washes up on the beach on the morning of the ceremony.Other cast members include Eve Hewson, Billy Howle, Meghann Fahy, Donna Lynne Champlin, Jack Reynor, Michael Beach, Ishaan Khatter, Sam Nivola, Mia Isaac, and Dakota Fanning.All six episodes of the miniseries debuted September 5, 2024 on Netflix.In the opening titles, the cast are seen dancing on the beach to ‘Criminals’ by Meghan Trainor. The song is taken from the deluxe version of her sixth studio album, ‘Timeless’.The original idea for the dance sequence came from executive producer Gail Berman, who was a producer on Wednesday.

Naman Ramachandran Indian actor Ishaan Khatter is turning heads in his second major English-language role, rubbing shoulders with Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber in Netflix‘s chart-topping thriller “The Perfect Couple.” As Shooter Dival, the outsider in a nest of Nantucket’s elite, Khatter brings a fresh face to the murder mystery that’s captivating global audiences. “The Perfect Couple,” adapted from Elin Hilderbrand’s bestselling book, centers on Amelia Sacks (Eve Hewson), a bride set to join Nantucket’s elite. Nicole Kidman stars as Greer Garrison Winbury, the groom’s mother and a renowned author, who orchestrates an opulent wedding.

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The Perfect Couple.Meghann Fahy knows how to do self-care right. For example, while spending days shooting an admittedly very tiring scene for her new Netflix murder mystery show, , in which her character was—spoiler—drowned in the ocean by ’s character, the two ladies made sure to sneak in some R&R.“They had this blow-up hot tub…so between takes we were just sitting in our costumes in this inflatable hot tub in some empty high school,” tells Glamour of filming the scene.

Hunter Ingram SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for Netflix’s limited series, “The Perfect Couple” and Elin Hilderbrand’s book, on which it is based. Move over, Agatha: In Netflix’s new murder mystery “The Perfect Couple,” it was Abby all along. The limited series, which takes place during an affluent July 4th wedding weekend in Nantucket, opened with the death of Merritt (Meghann Fahy), the maid of honor for Amelia (Eve Hewson). But why would someone want to kill the maid of honor, you ask? Well, money really does make the world go ‘round, especially for the wealthy families that already have it –– and, in the case of Abby (Dakota Fanning), those who marry into it.

New drama series The Perfect Couple has only just landed on Netflix but it's already proven to be a hit with TV fans.The American mystery series is an adaptation of the 2018 novel of the same name by Elin Hilderbrand and premiered on Netflix on 5 September.The six-part series stars Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Dakota Fanning, and Eve Hewson. Liev, 56, stars as Tag Winbury, husband to Greer Winbury, played by Nicole Kidman. Many viewers will recognise the American actor from his roles in films including The French Dispatch, Isle of Dogs, Spotlight and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. “The Perfect Couple” is the latest show to tap into the valuable IP of a bestselling novel. The murder-mystery series, starring Nicole Kidman and now streaming on Netflix, is based on Elin Hilderbrand’s 2018 novel of the same name.

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Nicole Kidman and her co-stars in The Perfect Couple set up a WhatsApp group to try to get out of having to film a dance scene for the show’s opening credits.The six-episode series is streaming on Netflix now, and stars Kidman alongside Liev Schreiber, Eve Hewson, Meghann Fahy, Jack Reynor and Dakota Fanning.The mystery drama is an adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s 2018 novel and follows Hewson’s Amelia, who is about to marry into a wealthy family to the disapproval of the family’s matriarch Greer (Kidman). On the morning of the wedding, one of the members of the wedding party is found dead on the beach.Despite the show’s serious dramatic themes, director Susanne Bier (Bird Box, The Undoing) insisted on filming a flashmob-style dance sequence on the beach for the show’s credits, set to Meghan Trainor’s ‘Criminals’.Bier said she wanted something which had “a lot of life and a lot of fun” at a time that is otherwise “a little bit gloomy”, but she soon found that her cast were much less enthusiastic about the idea.Kidman was very unsure about the idea: “I didn’t feel like Greer would dance!” she explained at a press conference for the show.

K.J. Yossman Set in Nantucket, “The Perfect Couple” portrays a rarefied, 1% version of America in which people have staff and use “summer” as a verb. Which is precisely why director Susanne Bier turned down the offer to direct Netflix’s adapt tion of Elin Hilderbrand’s novel when producer Gail Berman first approached her.

Aramide Tinubu When adapting novelist Elin Hilderbrand’s best-selling novel “The Perfect Couple” for Netflix, series creator Jenna Lamia could have made it an intense murder mystery, or leaned toward all the delicious bits that make the story an irresistible beach read. Lamia chose the latter. “The Perfect Couple” follows Amelia Sacks (Eve Hewson), a zoologist who is marrying into the wealthy and esteemed Winbury family.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events “The Perfect Couple” could be renamed “Attack of the Gnats.” Swarms of flying insects invaded Netflix’s red carpet premiere of “The Perfect Couple” on Wednesday night at the streamer’s Egyptian Theatre Hollywood. If the hot and sticky weather wasn’t bad enough, the cast – including Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber and Meghann Fahy – suddenly found themselves swatting away gnats about an hour into the carpet. “I think one just bit me,” Schreiber said, smacking the back of his neck.