'The Perfect Couple' on Netflix

Nicole Kidman is too old looking to be a leading lady anymore. You would think there were no decent actresses under 40 in Hollywood. Sheesh. Exhausted from her bad plastic surgery face.

There seems to be some botox fuckery going on with Tim Bagley's face, it's pooling everywhere.

Was just about to make a Jack Reynor WHET thread and now I see him pop up in this.

Dakota seems to be in everything these days, good for her.

This is quite shameless in its White Lotus rip-off-ness. It’s also odd they chose a title so generic it would be rejected by Hallmark. White Lotus wouldn’t have become White Lotus is it was called “The Perfect Vacation.”

Just watch this again.

Why’d they make that one muppet out of raw chicken?

Oh. That’s Nicole Kidman.

Well, i too thought immediately of White Lotus baiting, but still want to see it.

If there is a role where Kidman’s immovable and plastic face is role appropriate is this one.

Holy shit. that Indian actor is HOT!

Yeah, Ishaan's a hottie.

Nicole has become the queen of shitty streaming projects. The ugly face, the wigs, she’s become a bad actress.

What R1 said. I simply can't stand looking at her fake face.

The only time she was even cute was when she was a teenager, with that wild curly hair and freckled face.

Crazy Botox rabbit.

Kidman is so overexposed. I never watch anything just because she’s in it.

Does she hate being with her family or something? I can't think of any other explanation as to why she loves to work all the time. I can't believe that she needs trashy commercial film money that badly.

Perhaps she just enjoys acting that much, like a true thespian?

If Nicole Kidman doesn't appear in a new project every few months, she begins to disappear a la the photograph in Back to the Future.

R13: Honey she's no thespian. She must be easy to work with and/or shows up on time.

[quote] Perhaps she just enjoys acting that much, like a true thespian?

Oh, [italic]hon.[/italic] This is Nicole Kidman we're talking about, not Patricia Clarkson.

It seems a bit Saltburn - ie new person joins a very wealthy family who live in a massive house and are also really fucking weird.

But I'll give it a go.

I'm happy for any work really. I just love to act! But seriously they should have cast me in the role of the 20-something bride, or at least the mother of toddlers. I'm not OLD.

It actually looks entertaining; and good lord, at least it's Nicole was the parent of adult kids rather than young children .

R1, Kidman's character has been married for 29 years, so Kidman, at 57, is younger than her character.

Liev Schreiber's face is wrecked and bloated, but for some reason you don't object to him.

R20 Liev Schreiber's face looks a hell of a lot better than Kidman's. She's ghostly white and waxy. He looks like an actual human being who drinks to much and spends too much time in the sun. He's still very fuckable.

Is this fiction or based on a true story?

Kidman lost a lot of us when she agreed to take that Lucille Ball movie, despite being Australian, stone-faced, and about as funny as a school bus fire.

Those studio cocksuckers are only concerned with gross profits, and they knew the story was marginal, so they could've solved the problem one of two ways: Fix the script and hire a funny actress, or leave the script lousy but hire a bankable name any idiot will pay to watch. They picked the latter path.

Debra Messing would've gotten an Oscar nomination out of it. But as the suits would say, "SHE doesn't open a movie!"

WOOF

It looks like some kind of Agatha Christie with too many characters.

@r8, bullshit. She's chosen to do some amazing projects on streaming. But those probably aren't broadcast to your red state.

Why can’t Nicole just relax and enjoy her wealth. Why does she have to be everywhere, in everything, all the time? Every 2 months…here comes another…

From the thumbnail alone I thought this was a sequel to M3gan.

[quote]Why can’t Nicole just relax and enjoy her wealth. Why does she have to be everywhere, in everything, all the time? Every 2 months…here comes another…

Keith Urban's manlights don't pay for themselves you know! Seriously though, she is likely the main breadwinner in that house, they've got 3 young adult daughters, all which require being kept in the lifestyle to which they've become accustomed. That's can't be cheap!

Let's face it, when you're as well known as Kidman, you don't need to go looking for work - it comes to you.

And some people hate the idea of sitting around.

R23 That shit didn't even open. It was on Amazon. Straight up TV. Then Nicole was nominated, almost won the fucking Oscar for it. Things need to be regulated where POS TV movies aren't allowed nominations for anything.

Nicole has always been prolific.

What "amazing" series has she been in, r26? Accusing someone of living in a red state because they didn't orgasm while watching Expats is pretty fucking stupid.

Expats was a miss, even the critics said so. They gave Lulu Wang too much, too soon.

about as funny as a school bus fire.

That's funny.

Trailer.

Starts tomorrow!

Which character drowns? They all seem to have post drowning scenes.

It's mildly entertaining. On second episode now.

[quote]It actually looks entertaining; and good lord, at least it's Nicole was the parent of adult kids rather than young children .

Yes, she was always playing the mother of toddlers or elementary school-aged children until recently. Maybe she finally realized how ridiculous it looked.

I like Nicole Kidman, I loved White Lotus and some of the men in this are hot, but after 2 episodes I feel as if the whole thing is entirely uninvolving.

I don’t care whodunnit, but the house on the beach is beautiful.

[quote]Nicole Kidman is too old looking to be a leading lady anymore. You would think there were no decent actresses under 40 in Hollywood.

I not one to rush to Nicole Kidman's defense, but she does play the mother of some children solidly in their twenties. Maybe not the role for someone 57, but not the role for someone under 40.

[quote]I don’t care whodunnit, but the house on the beach is beautiful.

Yeah, the set design is pretty much the only reason I'm pressing on. That, and the handsome Indian boy.

It manages to rip off BLL and White Lotus but is pretty bad. I can’t with Nicole’s face anymore.

I watched the trailer and said to myself, "How can she even act with that face?"

So, Amelia is played by Bono's daughter? I knew I saw the actress somewhere ("Bad Sisters") but I couldn't put my finger on it.

BTW, everyone in the first episode was saying that Tag is fuckable and I have to agree.

[quote]So, Amelia is played by Bono's daughter?

Yep, and she has the most fantastic tits. One of the better cast member on this mid show.

Wasn't the victim actually in White Lotus s2? She looked familiar.

Yes, Meghann Fahy.

Whoever was in charge of makeup and hair needs to be FIRED. That wig of hers was awful. Is her real hair in such dire condition that she has to conceal it all the time? Maybe her hairline is pulled very far back from all the facelifts.

Continuity flaw. Did I imagine the cake had yellow icing in one scene and then white later on? Maybe it was the lighting. Minor issue I know but I could have sworn I saw pale yellow icing first.

That older brother was a worthless, mean asshole.

r49 I guffawed when someone mentioned to ignore the cancer mom's wig, when Nicole's was just as bad.

Eve Hewson looks beautiful in some shots and very meh in others. It’s nice that she has curves.

Surprisingly awful, given the cast and production investment.

Nicole is the new Nick Cage who was new Bruce Willis.

I'm all for mindless entertainment, but this series was truly terrible. The only thing that got me through it was remembering Jack Reynor's full frontal nude scenes in Midsommer.

This e tire thing felt like a vehicle designed to propel the actor playing Scooter into the zeitgeist.

I thought his name was Shooter?

And I doubt he has this kind of pull in Hollywood. He's just a pretty thing from Bollywood who got lucky to get cast in this and – I hope – will keep getting lucky going forward.

The show was awful. Dakota Fanning especially.

R45, she is a good actress. She also played the horny southern nurse in the Showtime show The Knick.

I really hate Dakota Fanning.

The actor who played Shooter is fucking hot, so at least this series gave us him. I hope to see more of him in the future. Much more.

Loved Dakota in Ripley, but she just annoyed me in this. Everyone except Bono's kid annoyed me, actually. I didn't buy any of the couples. The blond guy piqued my interest when I saw the trailer, but he's lowkey soap actor bad and his skin is all sorts of terrible in closeups.

Nicole's wig looked like a piece of plastic from behind. Outrageous, given where the wig science is in 2024.

R61, agreed. And, dear god, Isabelle Adjani looks worse than Kidman which is seeing quite a bit. She looks like some evil muppet brought to life.

Dakota Fanning really irritated the shit out of me in that scene where the brothers are fighting over the wedding cake. And I figured she was the murdered about 3 episodes in.

yes, Adjani's face is frightening.

R64, it's like the philtrum area of her face (the space between the upper lip and nose) was stitched together. Bizarre.

Adjani's character was like something from a different show, just completely out of place. I will complement her English, however.

*compliment, even!

Dakota Fanning - the older they get, the cuter they aint.

Nicole's contract demands that for every scene she is in, someone must compliment her beauty. In every scene she is not in someone must ask where her character is and have you seen how beautiful she is.

LOL R68 - so true! Her eyes are so big as to be disconcerting.

I thought the sons Benji and Thomas looked like they were in their 40s, not 20s.

Her latest nose job is really not great; I found myself wondering if it will end up in Michael Jackson territory. Every time she fucks with it, she gets that much closer.

And I don't really blame HER for the horrific wigs - somebody didn't do a good job on this, which they are paid for. I would not use that wigmaster again for any future projects. Those were some of the worst wigs I've ever seen.

Every month when the Korean wigs arrive, Nicole and Keith have a catfight over them.

Twenty years ago, Nicole's frozen face was a plot point about artificiality in The Stepford Wives.

Today, it's just her face.

R69, you mean the Carrie Bradshaw clause?

Nicole was truly terrible. The accent was all over the place. Just truly awful. It’s as if she has given trying to disquise her very deep Australian accent. This was a lighter version mixed with an attempt in some scenes to sound BostonNantucket. It made me not buy her character especially in the last episode. I laughed and laughed at her serous scenes. She needs to take a break for a bit.

I was curious if the accent was supposed to be more British than Australian...she didn't sound fully Aussie whatsoever, or is that her natural accent now that has devolved to...that?

But I think Eve Hewson is interesting and very good. I wanted good things for her character. But for me Meghann Fahy stole every scene. She is riveting and stunning to look at. And I laughed when she opined on Nicole Kidman’s character’s butthole.

I thought both of them were good, r78. Meghann was an excellent mixture of young, hot yet a bit sophisticated. Really surprised she hasn't gone the breast implant route, TBH. Good for her.

Hewson surprised me...I assumed she was be a barely talented nepo baby, but she really did a good job. I think we'll see more from her.

Eve Hewson was *really* good in "Bad Sisters." I'm curious to see how her career develops.

Eve is also in a show on Netflix called ‘Behind Her Eyes’. It is a British mystery series and she is great and plays the bad girl well.

Her Dad may have helped open doors but she is proving herself to be not just capable but compelling.

r73 made me laugh hard.

I loved Meghann Fahy in White Lotus. I kinda thought she'd be a flash in the pan after that. Happy to see she has new fans.

Meghann got her big break on One Life to Live. She was great as the psycho/stalkerish girl.

I was disappointed there were no shirtless shots of Schrieber, who is so sexy.

He's sexy, but bloated. So not suprising.

Shrieber was hot, and Michael Beach as the cop was also totally fucking hot daddy. Those two going at it and unloading on each other's thick, hairy chests would have been nice. Lol.

Unfortunately, they had to include that uber-MAGAt Nick Searcy in the cast.

What a piece of crap. The “killer” was random and had no motive. For shame, Nicole for doing TV garbage.

She has a high-maintenance lifestyle and a ton of people on her payroll. She needs to work.

Those Korean wigs are not going to pay for themselves, you know!

[QUOTE] It seems a bit Saltburn - ie new person joins a very wealthy family who live in a massive house and are also really fucking weird.

It's based on a novel by Elin Hilderbrand that came out in 2020 so it wasn't influenced by Saltburn.

[quote]It seems a bit Saltburn - ie new person joins a very wealthy family who live in a massive house and are also really fucking weird.

[quote]It's based on a novel by Elin Hilderbrand that came out in 2020 so it wasn't influenced by Saltburn.

"Saltburn" iself was inspired in part by "Brideshead Revisited," "The Talented Mr. Ripley," and "The Secret History." See, for example, the "Big Beautiful Elite," "Cast Full of Rich People," "Middle-Class Outsider," and "Big Fancy House" tropes.

[quote] It seems a bit Saltburn - ie new person joins a very wealthy family who live in a massive house and are also really fucking weird.

***AHEM***

Remember back to when Dataloungers were actually well read?

Yes--see R93

Did Liev specifically ask to sing multiple times? I can't see them writing that in otherwise.

Why is Isabel Adjani in this? What does she contribute?

Foreign sales? Appeal to men who fantasize about sex with a 69 year old woman?

r50 the way the carry it, that giant cake apparently only weighs 1-2 pounds.

Stunt casting. Plus, she's a legend of Euro cinema.

Nicole demanded another pillow face so she wouldn’t stick out. Unfortunately it failed for both of them.

Liev Schreiber looks like a combination of Walter Matthau, David Mamet, and Jason Bateman now.

I watched this show with a friend who'd read the book it was based on. Apparently, the series is totally different from the book. Same characters, but they have different relationships, and SPOILER ALERT there is no murder. Someone dies, but it's a little complicated.

Like I said earlier, it was total schlock, but I enjoyed it - just for the scenery, the back and forth between the characters, looking at some fuckable characters. The murder mystery was the least compelling part. I didn't know unequivocally that Abigail was the murderer but it crossed my mind early on and it didn't surprise me in the end. Once the series started throwing suspicions on and then off the characters one by one in the most rote fashion, it wasn't hard to believe at all that the murderer was the last character the show got to. If they were going for The Usual Suspects level of intelligent surprise, they failed. But, again, the murder plot wasn't really why I enjoyed it.

R96, that was the worst part of the series. The singing was so off putting. I was hoping Kidman would stab him do death at the book launch .

R97, men who fantasize about has-ben French actresses who now look like ventriliquist dummies. It's a big market.

No comments on the opening credit dance number?

I haven’t finished watching this show, but I am enjoying it and quite like the deceptively cheery, party mode the line dance number gives.

I enjoyed it, too, R107. It's rather deceptive, as you said. Also, I'm surprised I sort of liked the song, given that it's Meghan Trainor.

You guys are such cunts. I got used to Isabelle's and Nicole's monstrous plastic surgeries within 20 minutes of episode 1.

The opening dance number is cute and if you look closely, Shooter has the best moves out of everyone. Which tracks, given his previous work in India.

I'm sick of Nicole Kidman. And Suzanne Bier, who did the horrendously preposterous The Undoing, is behind this. Dare I suspect it's the husband who did it? Did I also mention I'm sick of telenovelas where the White hetero guy is the villain and the women his pawns and victims OR if she's the villain there's a perfectly reasonable explanation why she did committed the crime, i.e. propelled by a personal history with the wrong White, heterosexual male?

The husband didn't do it. And the chick who was the ultimate villain didn't do it because of her personal history with the "wrong, White, heterosexual male."

I finished it yesterday evening… I won’t spoil the whodunit part but want to comment on the surprising ending.

There was quite a bit of info for the observant viewer to interpret. The final exchange between Greer and Tag I thought was slickly written. I liked that I got to interpret just what was occurring between them.

But the final scene at the zoo is pissing me off. There’s no explanation for Greer’s turnaround… it’s as if they just made Greer to be the cool woman/mom that the audience would have preferred her to be. Maybe there’s something missing from the book?

Psycho pregnant Abby murders Merritt. Gives her water with strong barbiturates in, then holds Merritt's head under water until she drowns. Abby's motive is that Merritt's kid's birth will mean Abby's husband Thomas won't get his hands on a trust fund for another 18 years instead of the next year.

In the novel, Merritt drinks water that Abby spiked with a sleeping pill but it isn't meant for her, it's meant for her husband's mistress, the characters Adjani plays who is called Featherleigh in the novel and Isabel in the Netflix version. Her weak motive is that she wants Adjani's character to fall asleep so she can't have sex with Thomas (Abby's husband) that night.

Dreadful but watchable. And I also love Fahy. When I saw her in White Lotus, I thought she was a soap actress lightweight, until her big scene at the end, which blew me away. She was the best thing in this as well.

R114 FUCK YOU NASTY CUNT. This is a new series. YOU ARE BITCH CUNT KILLJOY.

R116, not 114 but they aren't spoiling anything, they are doing you a favor.

Yeah, dick move @ R114. You didn’t even answer my better question: Why did Greer do what she did at the end?!

So, only males reset the trust. I was wondering why Abbi's own kid wouldn't reset the trust - a kid who would be born before Merrit's kid. But Abbi and Thomas had that exchange where she reveals that she's having a girl. Thomas asks, "it's a girl?" Abbi answers, "it better be." From what I gathered, the trust payout was $2.5 million.

So Dakota would have been broke anyway since her husband owed that much to the French whore. Terrible ending.

[quote]I was wondering why Abbi's own kid wouldn't reset the trust

It’s Tag’s children that share in the trust. Abbi’s kid is Tag’s grand kid.

Did they ever explain how Dakota would even know about the pregnancy?

Terrible plot.

I have no idea, R122, but I'm glad I'm not the only one who was left wondering.

The fake tulips in the cement pot at the waters edge during the rehearsal dinner bugged me. It's supposed to be summer.

Abbi wants a daughter because the men in that family are fucked up. I guess Nicole/Greer is no prize but Abbi idolises Greer, I think.

Selling "Tag" as sexy by about everyone of the cast was reaaaally a stretch. Pigheaded, bloated, drunk.

R124 R125

His skin looked like SHIT in closeups.

The sons were supposed to be "so handsome" but only the twink was possibly above average. And not even. Several generations of wealth in the USA usually improves the gene pool.

r126 Yeah, I didn't get the appeal either. He's not ugly or anything, but so many of the characters saying they wanted to fuck him was a bit much. Alternatively, they should have cast someone who would realistically elicit such a response. Someone like his half-brother Pablo Schreiber, maybe.

I think Bono's daughter is voluptuous and pretty, though.

R131, she is gorgeous and she has a face made for acting. Very expressive.

And why did Benji have dyed blond hair? I thought that was really strange.

To make him stand out from the brothers more, I guess.

Liev has ALWAYS had a DILF aura about him. Sure, it may have faded a bit, but he’s still a hot fuck daddy that I wouldn’t kick out of bed.

I was always jealous of the kid in this vignette, but then the kid became Jeremy Allen White and now I hope Liev enjoyed himself.

I wonder if Nicole knows that so many people make fun of her and her choices.

^^^

She’s heard. She sends her love!

I watched The Others last night, an old Kidman film from 2001. After that I watched the next episode I was on for The Perfect Couple and holy moses the difference in Kidman's face, mannerisms, mouth movements, etc was wild. It's one thing looking at then/now photos, but seeing her then/now in action was really something. Something not good, I might add.

All I know is that I want Michael Beach, who plays Officer Dan, inside me very, very deeply.

Absolutely agree, R139, Beefy and hot. In Black films he's often played much-hated fuckbois. Lol. He was Angela Basset's husband in Waiting to Exhale who left her for a white woman.

I was surprised to learn that Michael Beach is over 60. He definitely looks great for his age.

He's exactly 60 and looks great. He has 8 kids and his ex wife with whom he has some of the kids lives with him and his new, younger wife (she's around 45 now) with whom he also has kids. It's sort of nuts and takes he sheen off a little, but then I just look at him again.

But for real, is she supposed to be Australian or British in this? She sounds South African.

I'm not a big fan of hers, but I thought the accent was fine. It was definitly British, but a bit off, being that her original accent was the same as her brother's but she was faking the upper class one.

What a stupid show with an idiotic impossible conclusion. I can just see Nicole conferencing with Bier saying, "Now I want my character to do a 180 at the end and become a progressive womyn, never mind that she has been an ambitious, controlling bitch for 60 years, she's transformed by her would-be daughter in law who she hated but never mind, she sees the light through this other womyn and becomes fully realized."

R145, is it just me or have Netflix shows/movies gotten so much worse the past few years? There were some very good ones a few years ago and now they are all almost as bad as this show.

R146 it all became obnoxiously formulaic

It has to be forumlaic with rough edges to appeal to a broad international audience. The shows sometimes looks good and have the trappings of a decent show, but you often realize that it's just overall generic and nothing really happens that's particularly compelling or interesting.

I found Jack Reynor as brother Tom sexy, but then I’m a sucker for douchey WASP prince types (yeah, I know Reynor is Irish).

And Schreiber is hot.

Dakota Fanning desperately needs a new hairstyle. She was annoying in this, but I feel like I can't hate her after all these years.

R148 that describes it very well.

Sorry, I meant "no rough edges."

I thought the lady cop was terrific. Did anyone else wonder just whose baby Abby is having?

I enjoyed the series and was entertained, although I can see where some of the criticism comes from.

I like Nicole in most things she has done, and she looks better in this than she did in the Expats, where I found her face distracting. She looked odd in that, to say the least. She's sort of back to looking good in The Perfect Couple, although in some scenes the lighting is not very flattering to her, and her facial work looks really overdone. A few times she really gave off "old lady face" depending on the shot she was in.

Liev looks grizzled, old, and like he has been a hardcore drinker and smoker for decades. I also found how he mumbled through a lot of this role underwhelming.

And who decided on the awful wig for Isabel? Not sure I buy her in the cougar role she is playing.

This show has the same level of idiotic writing you see on network TV every night with a ton of fucks and cunts thrown in to make it seem daring.

And Nicole needs to demand a better wig maker. Jesus Christ she looked like she was wearing a 99-Cent Store Halloween Special.

R153 Agree — the mannerisms, facial expressions, timing. She (Donna Lynne Champlin) stole every scene she was in.

R153 I thought she was great as well, and I realized I recognized her from somewhere.

I looked her up, and it was what I suspected: she was the best friend in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: quite a departure from that role. She was really dry/sarcastic and cutting. Her reactions were spot on, especially talking to some of the uppity members of the family. Great portrayal. Her name is Donna Lynne Champlin, and it looks like she's kept somewhat busy since the end of CExG.

I hope we see her in more.

Loved this. I especially loved Irish actor Mark Reynor. Hes so cute. Id seen a thread on him before about his nude scene in Midsummer and now i want to see it. Bonos daughter as Amelia was surprisingly good too. It needed someone of the pedigree of Nicole to make it stand out and she delivers. The last episode felt more like a dark comedy, which made me rethink the series.

[quote]I especially loved Irish actor [bold]Mark[/bold] Reynor.

Gurl...

Loved the campiness and haughty Nicole really pulled it off . Great line delivery when she finds Amelia downstairs at night. "Thirsty? Don't you have a carafe by your bed"? Bad wigs be damned, she and Isabelle Adjani were hoots! Never thought I'd see the actress who played Adele H. so wonderfully slumming on American TV delivering lines like "Greer has a stick up her ass.....hole"! The whole cast is terrific. The characters are unapologetically awful. Everyone looked like they were having as blast. Benji, Tom and Scooter were hot! I hope there's a Season 2.

R161 You have no taste.

You stop with that kinda talk right this instant, r162.

With a few extra pounds, Tom could play Jaydine.

[QUOTE] I hope there's a Season 2

Girl, it's an adaptation of a novel so no Season 2.

It was fun but I found the solution to the murder an anti-climax and not convincing. Not to mention that without a witness or evidence (or a confession) a murder charge would never stick. And there should have been dialog to that effect at the end — there would never be severe repercussions for any of these wealthy people.

I found the abrupt tone change at the end fun, made the whole series suddenly seem like “Knives Out,” which I guess was deliberate. And yet it was a sign of sloppiness, a cop out which added to my feeling of being let down at the end. It was rushed and the coda was phony. I found the Kidman character’s regeneration unconvincing to the point that I wondered if Nicole insisted on it when taking the part. Wonder if she has the same sea change in the novel of origin? Agree it seemed like pandering to get a general audience, and it obviously worked — “The Perfect Couple” has been #1 in the US on Netflix since it dropped. Even the return of the second part of “Emily in Paris” hasn’t supplanted it yet.

I thought Schreiber gave the best performance in a difficult part — a chronically cheating husband who is nevertheless mad about a wife who has no use for him.

I enjoyed the Bollywood-style dance number the whole cast did in the opening credits, was glad they showed more of it at the end credits.

Midway through I realized they were just running through everyone as a suspect and then discarding them as a suspect without much suspense or doubling back to "surprise. It felt very rote in how they eliminated everyone. Amelia killing Merrit could have been interesting, but the most "We want to be The Usual Suspects 2" ending possible. Abbi was such a letdown.

I’d give it a B or maybe B+ for cheesy entertainment based on a popular “pulp” novel. It was fun to see them use real locations and touches like lightship baskets on Nantucket although this is not particularly what Nantucket is like. This thread seems to be mostly a Nicole bash job. I thought she was good- think Dynasty in the 1980s.

R168, you are very, very generous.

R166 Greer has need for her husband. She isn't leaving him at the end. She's just a stone cold careerist, and even if her fake background is shot down now, she's going to make bank and name as a ex whore turned mega successful authoresse.

By the way I give it C- redeemed by Nicole and Isabelle. I wish Isabelle had a better script.

At the end, are the couple agreeing to stay together but lead separate lives? It was a lot of hot air for no payoff.

Isabelle didn't make any sense. I have no idea why they decided to include her in this. She made the show even worse.

Isabel Nallet is there for colour and lux camp. The character should be in her early 50s tops and Isabelle is 69.

Huppert played vixen MILFS for 20 years and she is now 71. I kind of got sick of these performances after 60.

The better and more surprising ending is if the maid did it to protect Liev Schreiber's character.

When it was revealed the dead pregnant woman had barbiturates in her system, I thought it was because the maid made one of her green juices and spiked it.

I thought it was going to be Gosia, R176. She had a lot of resentment.

The BEST ending would be if a car ran over Dakota, ending the show prematurely.

Dakota's performance was inspired by the fictional character Marcia Brady.

I thought it was the maid who did it.

The only reason I am watching this is to look longingly at Liev, R45.

He is one of the sexiest men alive to me. My total type.

[QUOTE] He is one of the sexiest men alive to me. My total type.

Fat with huge plastic glasses. Okay girl.

R182 don't worry. I won't make us join you us.

Is it worth watching?

For throwaway, background entertainment, it's fun. If you want something more substantive and want to be wowed by great writing and a truly compelling story, then no.

Watch Monsters instead. Not exactly true to life but incredibly well acted, not to mention very sexy (no, not the incest part, the other part).

I'm the very busy state flag with very contrasting panels.

^^Whoops, wrong thread, sorry.

Confused about the sex scene between Benji and Amelia in the beginning where she seemed reluctantly resigned to do it doggy style but then he couldn't keep it up? And then at the end when he's drunk as a skunk he has no trouble fucking her properly in the kitchen at the book launch party.

She only wanted it doggy style so she could pretend it was Shooter fucking her.

R176 - I'm with you. I thought it was going to be Gosia for the same reasoning. Unlike many here, I enjoyed the fuck out of this series. I didn't expect it to be anything extraordinary beyond entertaining, featuring my catnip which is dysfunctional family drama rife with cheating, lying, secret agendas, lust, murder, resentments galore. I subscribe to LMC specifically to indulge in my love for escapist, schlocky, campy trash.

Should add that I resubscribed to Netflix recently because they're putting out so many of the above types of shows so I can bounce back and forth between LMC and Netflix, and when I'm feeling classy, Acorn and Britbox.

This got worse as it went along. Last 2 episodes so implausible and maddeningly stupid. The only pleasure was seeing Meghann Fahy acting again. Hopefully she'll pick a better vehicle next time.

I liked it, Nicole's face didn't bother me nearly as much as Adjani's did. And I could not believe how terrible her wig was. How could they not see that. I kept thinking they must have done it for a reason but have no idea what that might be.

Nicole's big reveal had absolutely nothing to do with the murder or the plot.

Nothing.

But Liev was hot to look at, so I was fine watching the series.

Pharmaceutical roulette, how random is that? So believably in character for Thomas to steal individual pills from everyone and just throw them all in a drawer. Where his crafty pregnant wife singles out one pill to execute her dastardly plan. Btw, when exactly did she learn that her father-in-law had knocked up his mistress? The whole thing is dopier than shit. Are the author's novels as hair-brained as the script?

Another piece of shit from Nicole Kidman. She’s so trashy.

It’s sooo good. All I know is the Russian maid is such a datalounger lol.

[quote] Are the author's novels as hair-brained as the script?

Oh, dear.

Sans hyphen is the preferred form for the "harebrained" variant.

Marc Caputo's now full-on solid silver head of hair is working for him. Hot.

^^ Sorry, wrong thread. ^^