One of the first TV shows I devoured in 2025 – right after Black Doves – was The Perfect Couple, another murder mystery series. It stars a thrilling cast of actors, Nicole Kidman of course, who I’d never seen in a TV series before, the talented, big-eyed Dakota Fanning, Meghann Fahy who I loved from The Bold Type and Tim Bagley who was a favourite character from Grace & Frankie.

Greer Garrison Winbury and Tag Winbury are a rich couple, the perfect couple the show is named after. “’Kill someone and get away with it’ rich” as Roger (Tim Bagley), the wedding planner says when questioned by the police.

They are one of the wealthiest families on Nantucket and their son is about to marry Amelia – from a not-so-rich family. On the eve of their wedding on the family’s land, death happens and all plans are turned upside down.

Episode one is cleverly shot, giving just enough details to sense that not all is as picture-perfect as it seems. We know death is looming just not whose. Everything seems luxurious, crème de la crème, expensive jewellery, massive houses, caviar on trays but behind all of that hide affairs, threats and secrets.

Bit by bit, information about each character and their relationships is revealed. The show’s pace is perfect and it is almost impossible to resist binge-watching this in one go. I loved how it takes viewers back and forth, pre and post the death, making every single character a suspect. Everyone had a motif or had the right circumstances set up for a tragic accident.

The Perfect Couple is certainly a suspenseful show yet painted through a lavishly rich lens. It is not too gloomy or gruesome and everyone but one person is strangely calm about the death. As if, it is standard practice and as sad as ‘Oops-I-dropped-my-phone’. That made me wonder how the mega-rich handle crises and life, how money is the problem and the answer to everything, but sometimes it cannot solve it all.