'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.