The Perfect Couple Alert: Nicole Kidman no longer human. Isabelle Adjani corners plastics market in France.

I just finished watching it. What a fucking trainwreck they both are lol. Neither can emote from fucking up their faces. Egads.

Oh and the series sucked, I was hate watched for the most part and with morbid fascination. I'm not sure why Nicole is making schlock like this.

Adjani in particular has had very bad work. At one angle you could clearly see the lumps and valleys in her skin from her fillers.

Nicole Kidman. Again.

I’m watching it and although agree about the bad faces, I like it. Liev is freaking hot. Several other cute guys too.

So far I find it entertaining. It's giving me White Lotus in Nantucket vibes.

Some of you bitches are too picky.

I find the bad dye job on Billy Howle even more distracting and completely unnecessary.

This is Datalounge catnip, what the hell is wrong with you people?

R7, there’s already a thread discussing pretty much the same thing.

Nicole should have Isabelle Adjani in all her future projects. Compared to Isabelle, Nicole’s work looks almost benign!

There seems to be a new Kidman movie or streaming series every month. How does she find the time for so many “tweaks” with that work schedule?

I'm on episode 4, Liev Schreiber smokes weed, drinks, and screws through this part.

My niece was a child actress. When she was young she, along with my brother, were flown out to Hollywood for an interview with a casting agent. He and my brother got along great and he ended up mentioning that Kidman was known for holding up shooting due to having cosmetic emergencies that would require sudden trips to fix things that went wrong. Not sure what that meant. Implants rupturing, skin suddenly coming loose?

How long did it take any of you to figure out the killer?

Who would wear those clothes on a beach?

Just found out that Amelia was played by Bono's daughter

R6 Agreed, I didn't get why they dyed his hair blond. Maybe he was shooting something else at a similar time that required blond hair?

But in this, both of his brothers have brown hair that appears natural, so his dyed hair made no sense.

I didn't think he acted as well in this either. But that could be more to do with the show than him.

That was adjani??? Black hair and spoke French ? Jesus I didn’t recognize her. Nicole’s wig looks like it’s from the Halloween suoerstore.

Longer thread here.

Bono's daughter in the lead role - explains how short and squat she is. Couldn't stand her.

I'm finding Liev Schreiber very fuckable in this.

Surprisingly awful, given the cast and production investment. Really bad -- like, sub-Sondra-Rhimes bad.

What was Adjani even doing in the series? All of her scenes could have been cut and one would be the wiser? Her character added absolutely to the plot.

[quote] I'm finding Liev Schreiber very fuckable in this.

As opposed to when else?

Liev Schreiber is always fuckable. He's sex on two legs.

R21 It seems your post is missing a couple of key words

Thanks, R20. I think you just spared me 6/7 hours of involuntary "bingeing," wondering if it wil get any better.

It was so weird that Isabelle Adjani was even in this…and line dancing on the beach! And fucking a guy young enough to be her grandson.

[quote] I'm not sure why Nicole is making schlock like this.

First you're another sloe-eyed vamp...

Hard to express just how terrible this show is. It gets absolutely nothing right: not Nantucket, not rich people (or any people), not wigs, not the new construction coastal McMansion that’s ’been In the family for five generations’

The tone its going for reminds me quite a bit of Mike White's 2001 series "Pasadena." It's sort of ghoulish and campy.

It also seems like a campy melodrama about rich people from Warner Bros circa 1952, except with Nicole Kidman in the bitchy Joan Crawford part.

The South Asian best man is really hot when he takes his shirt off later in the series.

It's pretty hilarious a major character in this is named "Merritt Monaco."

I kept thinking of Monica di Monaco from "Soapdish."

Adjani looks amazing for a 69-year-old actress. I was shocked when I looked up her age online.

Pretty good cast--what went wrong?

You all have such unmeritable high standards - these negative comments are hysterical…the indignation and righteousness are absurd. It’s not Shakespeare or a Merchant Ivory production you bitchy queens! Relax, look at the pretty people and the pretty scenery and chill out.

R33 thinks anyone a Fancy Pants who asks more from his entertainment than the froth on a People Magazine exclusive with Drew Barrymore.

The.people were not that "pretty", the scenery got dealt a bad hand, and the architecture worse.

Nicole looks BAD in that pic at R31

R34 - unemployable “screenwriter” holed up at a downmarket Starbucks for the day enjoying the free refills

[quote]I'm not sure why Nicole is making schlock like this.

That old hag is so desperate for money. She got over $70 million in her divorce from tom cruise and it's not enough for her. She just to get more money. She's a money grubber.

She's like that other money grubber, Salma Hayek in that respect. But at least Nicole does more prestigious projects. If there's a dollar in it for her, Salma will show up to the opening of an envelope.

R33, the photo from People Magazine looks horrible. All those people look horrible. It honestly looks like some low budget production

And I couldn't even recognize Nicole Kidman. The work required to to touch up that photo must have taken a very long time. I saw a photo of her recently and she looks HIDEOUS without any filters. Every media company, newspaper, website, whatever highly filters each and every photo of her.

I remember being on set of Burn After Reading and overhearing Frances McDormand launch into a ten minute tirade about actresses who get too much Botox and pkastic surgery and no longer have expressive faces. I’m pretty sure she was referring to Kidman above all others.

Adjani should take a good look at how well her fellow countrywoman Carole Bouquet is aging. Bouquet looks wonderful in the trailer for the upcoming miniseries La Maison,

In all fairness, R40, Carole Bouquet also has a far more laid-back personality type and an actual sense of humor, whereas Adjani's reputation is... different. It's fitting that each would end up with the type of "work" appropriate for them.

[quote] Relax, look at the pretty people

It also helps that Bouquet doesn't try to hang on to her "girlishness" for dear life, like Isabelle A.

Kidman looks terrifying at r42.

Why would you need a trigger warning? The two ladies have been "ageless" for years. Isabelle has been scaring French children for a decade.

Isabelle Adjani had one of the most beautiful faces in cinema. She should have left it alone because she would have aged beautifully.

Yes, a beauty with that Kabyle mix.

R37 Salma Hayek will open up for an envelope

Salma Hayek seems to have a stable marriage to one of the world's richest men. She also comes from considerable inherited wealth. I think she likes to work and takes what she can get. Same with Nicole.

Salma Hayek's dad is part of a Lebanese plutocrat family and was himself an industrialist and oil executive.

"Salma discussed her upbringing in the 2015 biography Salma Hayek: Actress, Director and Producer by Kerrily Sapet. "I thought I was a princess,” she said in the book.

More than just being surrounded by the finer things in life, however, Salma said that she saw her father as royalty growing up. “I lived in a castle, and my father was a king,” she said. “I wore tiaras. I was born diva-ish.”

Per the Daily Mail, Salma told the New York Post that Sami even allowed Salma and her brother to keep a pet tiger named Rambo in the house."

With all the working Nicole seems to do,it doesn’t seem like she spends much time with her girls. If you’ve listened to that illegal recording of her conversation with then-husband Tom Cruise, she is definitely not maternal. She was intensely complaining and whining about running a birthday party for her very young son because Tom wouldn’t be there to do it.

R50, didn't she whine about some gift he'd given her?

R51 that too.

I have two words for you:

Micro. Plastics.

that illegal recording of her conversation with then-husband Tom Cruise

I never heard this.

I thought the comedy elements were pretty good. I laughed out loud a few times. The mystery was stupid. Several possibilities were laid out and then they picked one.

Dakota Fanning did not grow up to be a beauty. She and Bono’s daughter are borderline not attractive enough to be believable as rich men’s wives in real life, much less in a show or movie. Maybe if the rich men were ugly and in their 60’s.

Whoever was in charge of hair and wigs should never work again. Did they highlight the sick mom’s wig in an attempt to distract from the other ones? She had better hair than Kidman, Adjani, Howle, or Bono jr.

I think the armorer from “Rust” was in charge of wigs.

[quote]She and Bono’s daughter are borderline not attractive enough to be believable as rich men’s wives in real life, much less in a show or movie

Rich men do not always marry for beauty.

Yeah, but Zuckerberg and Gates are unattractive men and Ethel Skakel was rich and part of their crowd.

Plus Gates and Zuckerberg made their own money. Good looking retarded heirs marry for looks. A self made guy might marry a less attractive woman with other attributes.

Bono’s daughter had a square head and looks like a Lego action figure. Fanning looks like a character from King of the Hill. Adjani looks like she’s wearing a Kmart halloween mask from the ‘70s. There’s absolutely nothing attractive about Billy Howle—BAD teeth, cheap hair dye, Kidman is not a bad actress, but she looks like a Macy’s mannequin.

I love Isabelle Adjani and am excited to see her in something as mainstream as a Nicole Kidman Netflix project. She absolutely could have had a crossover career had she been more interested in English-language projects, and I hope this opens more doors for her in the States.

I didn’t get the killer till the next to last episode, when the killer does something that gives it away, although it’s quickly forgotten. The victim was actually the only really beautiful woman in this. And Sam Nivola is adorable. Not as hot as his dad, but much cuter.

You can figure out who the killer is by what I call the "Sleepy Hollow Rule": who is the most in-demand actor in the cast who seems initially to have the least to do, such that you wonder why they even agreed to do the part? That's exactly how I knew right away Miranda Richardson would turn out to be the killer in "Sleepy Hollow," and it also proved true here.

Finished it last night. It was entertaining for what it is: a mini-series based on a frau book. It had a good cast and high production values and, in this era of largely underwhelming mid level streaming, it hit the spot. It could've used a bit more Brian De Palma style camp, given the subject.

Elle has the talent in the Fanning family.

Eve Hewson has quite big tits. I find her saucy.

Does Liev Schreiber get nude in this? That’s what I want to know.

Unfortunately, no. The camera did like to linger on the glimpses of his hairy chest, though.

Total schlock; formulaic "rich people are shady and keep secrets" drama. But, I enjoyed it for the most part. And there was a LOT of fuckability on screen. I NEED to have Liev character and Michael Beach's cop character engage in a hot, thick daddy fuck. The older and younger brothers, plus the best man, were also uber-fuckable in different ways.

Keef looks like a butch woman with Karen hair.

It must have been hard to go home to that after workung with Liev.

Naomi has better taste in men.

I’m up to episode 4. Tell me Jack Reynor is suddenly caught naked watching porn being hammered by his Dad?

The guy playing Shooter is hot.

The actress playing Amelia is Eve Hewson who is Bono's daughter.

Hewson is fairly boring. Not terrible, but just a a vortex.

I kept looking at the snotty brother (with the pregnant wife) and I knew I saw him somewhere. Then last night in bed it hit me, he played Florence Pugh's boyfriend in Midsommar.

Sam Nivola is as cute as a bug’s ear. I want him in me, quite deeply. I was hoping for a glimpse of his tits; perhaps in the next White Lotus.

I cannot fathom why deformed Joe Locke has a thread but not this guy.

He had his shirt off in one scene - there was a tit glimpse.

R76, When he was in the pool? I saw only shoulders. Or did I miss a different scene?

Seems like Adjani had a little bit of fun playing her character.

Forgive me, R77. I got the characters mixed up. When I saw "Sam Nivola" at R75, I immediately thought the actor was the Shooter character. I didn't know either of the actors before this show - the ones playing Shooter and Will.

Shooter had a great body/butterface. Like she’d fuck up her whole life for such an average looker.

Starting episode 2 - any gay characters in this? Besides the lesbo cop.

[quote] Adjani looks amazing for a 69-year-old yeast ball.

FIFY. Seriously, her face looks like what happens when I forget a loaf of sourdough is rising for an extra hour.

R80, Little Bono Peep wasn’t exactly a looker herself…

It's awful, but .... Bono spawn Eve Hewson is quite beautiful. A young version of Charlotte Rampling.

I finished it. It was awful. I really do not get how these actors sign up for this shit. Paycheck, I guess.

Exactly. It is just a job. Gone are the days where every project - even for the best actors - are going to be prestige, high quality product.

The golden age of television died before the pandemic.

The golden age of TV died on 1959. FIFY

John Leguizamo looks good.

Liev Schreiber is in no way fuckable or a DILF. Jon Hamm must have been first choice. And Hannah Waddingham should have played Kidman’s role. At least her Brit accent is genuine. Kidman’s is atrocious.

[quote] Gone are the days where every project - even for the best actors - are going to be prestige, high quality product.

Well, if Nicole didn't constantly chose to work as much as possible & stay away from her husband and children for as long as possible, all her projects could be prestige, high quality work.

You're right r88. What was it called then? The golden age of "prestige" tv?

Steve Martin's joke last night about not knowing what to say to other actors and he always goes "Your scene with Nicole Kidman was great" and 9 out of 10 he is right. By accepting every other job, she is becoming a joke.

One thing that also stood out to me, was Benji's accent. The actor, Billy Howle, is from the UK, but his accent sounded neither British nor American, nor Transatlantic. In fact, as I had never seen him in anything before, my first thought was that he's Dutch or Belgian.

Eve Hewson is not Hollywood material. She is utterly unremarkable and a horrible actress. The actress who played the victim should have been in her role.

Liev Schreiber has horrible skin and bloated features. He is not a DILF.

R96, he's a heavy drinker

Those hideous thick clear plastic glasses Liev was wearing 🤢

Kidman obviously didn’t have her dialect coach on set with her every day as usual. At one point she pronounced “everything” as “ev-ree-thing” when Brits ALWAYS pronounce it as “ev-ruh-thing.”

Liev was fugly on Ray Donovan—at least in the face. I do like a beefy body though.

Liev is like Bob Hoskins: not conventionally good looking but exudes sex.

But Liev has a very nice body. Bob Hoskins really did not.

Did you see "Long Good Friday", R102. Let me give you a quick primer.

I understand every reason posters have stated for why Liev isn't hot. Yet, I found him incredibly hot in this.

He’s got BPF-bjg potato face.

I enjoyed it for what it was, but my one major problem was with the family speaking to the police without attorneys, and doing so with such gladness.

Eve Hewson reminds me of Joey King. Attractive at times, overly emotive facial expressions, great tits, and the propensity to became extremely chunky.

As an active member of the DL Mole Patrol, I found the one on her eyebrow quite distracting.

Well, R106, I thought it showed their privilege and their arrogance...once again. The Black cop explained it very clearly to that gung ho white woman detective. And then of course it was pretty clear they cops were fed (salaries) and clothed (uniforms) by the wealthy residents and were regarded almost at the level of servants. That family believed they could get away with anything. They lived in their own bubble.

Nah—in the real world no one at that level, with thatfamily “history” or psychology if you will, would bat an eyelash in an interrogation without a lawyer.

R109

I think Eve Hewson will go much further than Joey King. Hewson will be in the next Spielberg film. King will be lucky to get any kind of feature film. She’s a mediocrity.

Eve will go further because of her connections, not because of any great talent or star quality

Isabelle was more fun than I expected and my regret is that the show mostly sucks and her character was barely conceived so I'm left wanting and wishing someone will give old Adjani a decent vehicle.

R113. I love Adjani but all that plastic surgery makes her look so ridiculous. I tried to find Camille Claudel to appreciate the great Adjani but I could not find it on any streaming platform. I used to love her so much, but now she looks pathetic.

Isabelle Huppert would have been a scream in that role.

I love the dance party credit sequence that is the exact tonal opposite of the rest of the show.

R116 it’s so discordant with the show and the characters yet I love it for some reason.

I thought it was shit. And it made me angry because Kidman and Liev Schreiber are both terrific actors and it could have been so much better. It could have been fun, even.

I just started watching yesterday. In certain scenes Nicole looks like she has a feline snout. I have no idea what she's done to her face to have forehead creases AND a snout.

Dakota Fanning is a natural at playing a bitch.

Elle has 90% of that family’s talent.