Nicole Kidman removing her sunglasses as Greer Garrison Winbury in The Perfect Couple
The Perfect Couple showrunner Jenna Lamia explains the show's surprise murderer reveal and its deviation from Elin Hilderbrand’s novel. Released on Netflix earlier this month, the murder mystery series chronicles the lavish wedding between Amelia Sacks and Benji Winbury , and how it falls apart when the maid of honor, Merritt Monaco , washes up dead on the beach.
“In the book, you are privy to a lot of Merritt’s thoughts and her mindset when she wanders into the water to fish her ring out of the depths. And in a TV show, unless we were heavily, heavily using voiceover that wasn’t going to work or be as effective as the tone of this show needs it to be. So I realized that it may be more satisfying for the audience to find out that there was a murderer who fully intended to murder the person they murdered.
What The Perfect Couple's Ending Means For The Show How The Netflix Series Has Been Received The Perfect Couple's reviews have been generally positive from critics, if not somewhat lukewarm. The Netflix murder mystery series has, as of writing, a 60% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes. The audience score, now called the Popcornmeter, comes in higher at 69%.
Lamia's comments highlight a broader problem when it comes to adapting novels into movies or television, which is that the novel format allows authors to more easily present characters' interior lives. In a TV show, revealing a character's inner thoughts is often most easily done with voice over, but this isn't a technique that always makes sense tonally or stylistically.
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