‘The Perfect Couple’ Director And [Spoiler] Talk ‘Outrageous’ Killer, Motive And Show’s Ending
deadline.comSPOILER ALERT: This piece contains spoilers for the finale of The Perfect Couple. The Perfect Couple contains quite the recipe for disaster and an ensemble of characters messy enough to each have their own motive for killing Merritt Monaco (Meghann Fahy), maid of honor to Amelia Sacks (Eve Hewson) in her upcoming wedding to Benji Winbury (Billy Howle).
Based on the book by Elin Hilderbrand, the story sets up a lavish wedding weekend full of festivities planned by the groom’s mother Greer Garrison Winbury (Nicole Kidman), but the morning of the ceremony, a dead body is found on the beach, and suddenly, everyone in the wealthy Winbury clan is a suspect.
The show diverged in many ways from Hilderbrand’s book, but it did keep one thing the same — the killer. Unraveling the complicated tangle of events left Abby Winbury (Dakota Fanning) exposed in the finale.
Fanning, who had worked with director Susanne Bier before on Showtime’s The First Lady, boarded the project with the knowledge of her character’s fate. “[Susanne] called me when this was all getting put together, and she told me that she wanted me to play this part.
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