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The Perfect Couple Is My New Favorite (Unintentional?) Comedy
Netflix’s murder-mystery miniseries operates on its own bizarro wavelength.
It is the most I’ve laughed while watching a TV series all year, and that’s before Kidman’s author character gets up onstage at a launch party for her latest mystery novel, Death in Dubai, and does horrendously awkward jazz hands while her caddish husband, played by Liev Schreiber, drunkenly belts out “Never Gonna Give You Up.” What a time for television! • When Roger Pelton (Tim Bagley), who works for hit novelist Greer Garrison Winbury (Kidman), is pulled in for questioning about the as-yet-unrevealed death, he describes her outstanding literary success and her husband Tag’s old money as making them “child-sex-ring-on-a-private-island rich … kill-someone-and-get-away-with-it rich.” The former descriptor is a little too flippant about Jeffrey Epstein’s particular monstrosities, but the latter has an on-the-nose quality that made me chuckle and do the Leo screen point. • This miniseries’ biggest assholes get some of its best material, and Reynor’s Tom perhaps does the most with that opportunity; his line delivery of “I’m not gonna hook up with some crazy French lady my dad knows … I love you” to Abby after she correctly intuits that he’s having an affair with Isabel is so facetious that it feels like an outtake from his performance as one of the worst boyfriends you’ve ever seen in Midsommar.
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