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The Perfect Couple Goes Way Harder Than the Book
Especially that ending.
But the streaming version developed by showrunner Jenna Lamia and directed by Susanne Bier unfurls way more freak flags — see: Tag Winbury’s drunken performance of Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” at his wife’s book party — than the novel dares to even imagine. Abby, an extremely peripheral figure in the book, drops a sedative into a glass of water intended for Featherleigh Dale (yes, that is the character’s name), the British cougar who becomes French femme fatale Isabel Nallet (Isabelle Adjani) in the series. Lamia’s ending does, too, but it also gets that in a murder mystery, especially one involving comically wealthy, myopic people, the audience needs to see someone held accountable, and all the better if it’s an entitled snob screeching for her husband to call their lawyer while she’s being handcuffed.
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