The Perfect Couple – Web Series Review

What happens in the island, stays in the island. Perhaps not, if it is the death (rather, murder) of someone on the eve of a high profile wedding!

Merritt Monaco (Meghann Fahy) is one of the closest friends of bride to be Amelia Sacks (Eve Hewson). She is getting married to Benji Winbury (Billy Howie), the second son of Greer Garrison Winbury (Nicole Kidman) and Tag Winbury (Live Schriber). 


Greer is a prolific author and has several books to her credit, while her latest one is awaiting a launch right after the wedding is over. She is not happy with her son’s choice of bride, as Amelia doesn’t match the “class” of her clan, and hence always looks down upon her. 



Tag is a chilled out husband of a popular persona, that is his wife. He makes it appear that their wedding is just the kind of story people love to believe. The media makes a celebration of their relationship, calling Greer and Tag “The Perfect Couple”. 


Though, they are exactly the opposite in real life. Tag is fed up of Greer’s highhandedness in everything in the relationship and wonders at times, how has be survived the wedding for over 2.5 decades. 


Benji’s younger brother Thomas Winbury (Jack Reynor) is married to Abby Winbury (Dakota Fanning) and the couple is expecting the birth of their baby soon. 



Will Winbury (Sam Nivola) is the youngest of the three brothers and is already fed-up of anything called a relationship, though he is dating Chloe Carter (Mia Isaac), the daughter of single dad and the island’s cop, Dan Carter (Michael Beach). 


Even as the entire family is having fun on the eve of the party, Amelia is not sure if she is ready for the marriage. She confides it with her bestie Merritt while they are on a walk by the shore, who gives her the much confidence that is required to sail through this relationship. 


At the same time, Merrit informs that she is pregnant and the father of the to-be born baby is none other than Tag Winbury. Greer too finds about the same when she finds the bill of an expensive bracelet in Tag’s work desk and is shocked to see it on Merritt’s wrist when she arrives for the wedding. 



On the day of the wedding, the dead body of Merritt is found floating on the waters and the local Cops enter the scene along with the investigating officer Nikki Henry (Donna Lynn Champlin).


Each member of the household is investigated in private, while Benji’s orphan friend who lives with them, Shooter Dival (Ishan Khatter) tries to escape from the island. 


Every one of them have their own narrative to share; most importantly, the family wealth can be split among the three brothers & their parents only after Abby’s baby turns 18 – that’s how the “family will” is written that the youngest heir shall also be inheriting of the wealth. 


So, who killed Merritt and why? 


Is it Greer who would have done, unable to digest another woman coming in to the family so the family’s wealth gets dwindled further? Or is it Tag who wants to take no responsibility for the birth of the little one of a carefree girl that was Merritt?


Could it be Amelia, who fears that she will get a lesser fraction of the wealth, if there is one more baby that is born, especially since she is married to a very wealthy family, when compared to her own humble family background? 


How about Abby and Thomas, who’s child is about to be born? Would they have committed? 


Though the screenplay of “The Perfect Couple” is imperfect at numerous places, the narrative sounds interesting and doesn’t allow the viewer to identify the killer almost until the end. 


Although, I wondered that instead of 6 episodes, the series could have been edited with just with 4, or at best 5. 


Creator Jenna Lamia who has assembled an extensive star cast for this series has given his best for the content that has been exclusively produced for, and by Netflix. 


The imperfections in the storyline are negated with the mind blowing visuals of the beach house in the island and by the performance of a few. 


Worth a watch if you have 3 hours to spare. 


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