The Perfect Couple Book vs Netflix Show Review

It’s wild sometimes what gets changed in an adaptation. 🧐

Can you do Interview with the Vampire? It has a movie and a TV show. The two seasons cover the first book.

Can you do the book “The Mess You Leave Behind” it’s really good so is the show it’s on Netflix

The maid in the show is also so hilarious. "We moved up the wedding to accommodate her dying schedule and she brings store bought bananas". What? Lol

Thanks for this breakdown. So much has changed but it is interesting because it still feels very much like the book in so many ways.
Maybe because the book ended in a vague way without a "whodunnit" ending, I couldn't remember who did and so it was enjoyable going through the series and wondering how it would end. I do wish they kept the bride almost eloping with the best man in the show like the book. You might have said and I missed, but the detectives changed quite a bit too- one of them was Nick "The Greek" who was the other main detective to the chief.
Overall, I enjoyed both the book and TV show.

I am watching I am on episode 4 I am enjoying it so far it’s a good end of summer show. It’s not a masterpiece but I find it campy fun. I do like the maid I find her hilarious I know have an excuse to not clean dishes if I am ever invited to a rich family’s house lol. I am kidding usually I ask for that.

I did find Amelia a little annoying in episode 3 like be subtle when you investigate. Is she like that in the book? I am glad that they made Benji a better guy on the show

I understand why they cut the story with Merritt’s parents but I think the show could have had a line that they were estranged. Cause I know with a lot of parents they would have been on the first plane to Nantucket. I can understand why the Winbury are desensitized because their trained to brush these things aside
I might write again once I finish the series

I just binge watched the show because I love Kidman. While it was very entertaining, it was only ok. It's funny the youngest son and the brother were made up for the show because I thought they were the two worst characters and completely unneeded. I like the show ending better than the book.

I thought the "perfect couple" in the show was the two girls - their friendship was perfect, the rest admitted being threatened by how real they were, the bride's parents adored her and celebrated their friendship, which connects with Nicole's transformation into a "real" version of herself. My 2 cents for whatever that's worth. The idea of Nic and Leiv being the perfect couple was ironic, the real perfect couple was the friendship between the victim and the bride.

Okay I needed this video just after finishing the show and feeling blahhh about the ending. It was overall a 6/10 show, could have been better but fed my love for murder mystery enough

AMELIA NEEDED TO BE WITH SHOOTER ❤; Benji is just a lazy ass fellow 😂

I enjoyed tvshow alot. And believe the changes they have made enriches the whole experience especially the ending

The book was better. I read it after seeing the trailer for the show, but was disappointed with the show.

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I thought Greer's brother reveal was hilarious tbh 😂
"Do you not see the resemblance?" lmaooooo

Nice to see you point out the differences like book Shooter is fleshed out more, the absurd Greer's brother subplot was made up, felt out of place. The killer being pregnant Abby I did not see coming still hard to believe a heavily pregnant women. I thought it was Greer being the Matriarch being rich and fiction writer, planned it and had a fixer do it. That sounded a bit obvious so thought maybe twist might be it was accidental or even crazier the maid Goicia did it lol.

Thanks for the insightful review and never thought the Perfect Couple was Celeste's/Amelia's parents makes perfect sense.

What a FAMILY. The end was very interesting.

Soooo the book is corny and Netflix tried to correct this??? Moral: Adultery leads to death of the woman by another woman while the man suffers no consequences. 😮

can you make of video on Behind Her Eyes? it’s a netflix miniseries that utilized Amelia’s actress’ skills much better imo

I think the quote from the cop father about "victim of her own choices" was suposed to be a character thing for him and not a message to her audience. It seems like the type of thing my dad would say to me when I was young. A poor attempt to protect his kid from dangerous decisions.

So what’s funny is I knew Abby was the murder from the glass she was washing in episode 2 but I thought the motive was exactly what you said happened in the book lol.

The Perfect Couple is a great Dark Comedy ~ who done~it…. Everyone I have spoken to absolutely loves it. Too fun

I thought the ending in the show was strange in that Greer says she's tired of carrying everyone - and you're supposed to view this as her being empowered BUT one of the people she is "carrying" is her 17 year old son, who seems like a decent kid in need of parental involvement and guidance, who's certainly not going to get it from his father. I couldn't really cheer for that.

On the left cover I just noticed the blood in the water and on the beach. 😮

Apparently they changed the name from Celeste to Amelia to avoid too many similarities to Nicole Kid man’s show Big Little Lies 😅

Abbey's motive in the show doesn't make sense. A miscarriage (forced or otherwise) would mean that they still would get the money right away. They also didn't mention her sentence or what happened to the baby.

The book may not be great but COME ON, the show is so bad there is wide speculation that it was written by an AI.

1 example of hundreds: the youngest son is 18 in, like, a month. The trust will be distributed long before the baby is born. The new, invented motive doesn't hold up at all if anyone thinks about it for 10 seconds. Ditto the arrest. What evidence do the police have? She washed a glass?

This is fan fiction level dumb. It's not good that you're finding it to gave merit.

What was the connection between Greer and shooter?

It really is a toss up on which is better. Sometimes I think the book wins, other times I think I preferred the show 🤷‍♀️
What did you think about the show??