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Everyone Is Having Fun in The Perfect Couple Opening Credits, Damn It!
Lest you forget this is a show about murder, it’s also a show in which the entire cast performs a choreographed dance at the start of each episode.
Guests at a rehearsal dinner sip Champagne while carefully articulating expository and/or foreboding dialogue like “Maid of honor, at your service!” and “I love this woman to death! To the tune of Meghan Trainor’s “Criminals” (key lyric: “Lock me up ’cause I’ve been bad / And I know I’ll do it again”), a drone shot presents the entire cast on the beach, arrayed in rows in front of that very same rehearsal-dinner tent. In that case, the dance is a defiant and glorious expression of exuberant joyfulness, a metafictional frame that offers a moment of relief and celebration for characters whose fictional arcs are often shaped by pain.
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