The Perfect Couple (2024)
Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Perfect Couple.
For those who enjoyed NetflixsThe Perfect Couple, there are many similar shows to check out next.
WhileThe Perfect Couplemay be over after six episodes, there are plenty of series with similar premises.
The White Lotushas won six Primetime Emmy Awards.
Another connection betweenDeath & Other DetailsandThe Perfect Coupleis the setting.
Those interested in the nautical setting ofThe Perfect Couples Nantucket surroundings may jive withDeath & Other Details.
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In addition to the boat setting,Death & Other Detailstakes place in several seaside towns.
Though her first credited role came in 2008, 2021sBehind Her Eyeswas one of the actors breakthrough roles.
The Garvey sisters are a group of five blood-related siblings bonded closely after the untimely death of their parents.
In Monterey, California, five women meet through the elementary school while their children attend. Despite the friendships they form, each of them is harboring secrets, which have the potential to destroy the fragile balance of their lives.
Tragedy strikes once again when the husband of Grace Williams (Anne-Marie Duff) dies.
His life insurer notes this and launches an investigation into John’s death.
Delving even further into Hewsons body of work isBad Sisters.
Bad Sistersseason 2releases on Wednesday, November 13.
The first season was nominated for four Emmys, and press about the show has been heating up.
Fans of Hewson should not miss what is arguably her best role to date.
As with herThe Perfect Couplecharacter, Greer, Kidmans lead role is a member of wealthy society.
Susanne Bier, who directed all the episodes ofThe Perfect Couple, also directedThe Undoing.
Throughout its four-season run,Successionwon 19 Emmys, including awards for its acting.
The White Lotus is a television series that explores the interactions of guests and staff at an upscale tropical resort. Premiering in 2021, the narrative unfolds over a week, revealing underlying complexities and tensions among the resort’s seemingly ideal travelers and employees.
Successionwon 19 Primetime Emmy Awards during its four-season run.
Despite their similar themes,The Perfect CoupleandSuccessionare very different shows.
Lexi Underwood, Joshua Jackson, Rosemarie DeWitt, and Jade Pettyjohn also star.
Little Fires Everywhereis not a murder mystery, but it does create intense interpersonal suspense.
Those who are drawn to this aspect ofThe Perfect Couplewill enjoy the drama inLittle Fires Everywhere.
The Delaney family seemingly has it all from an outsider’s perspective.
As in the case ofLittle Fires Everywhere,Apples Never Fallis not ostensibly a murder mystery.
The series features outstanding performances from Elizabeth Olsen, Jesse Plemmons, Lily Rabe, and Patrick Fugit.
LikeThe Perfect Couple,Love & Deathexplores adultery as a key theme.
Death and Other Details is a mystery series created for Hulu by Mike Weiss and Heidi Cole McAdams. Aboard a luxury cruise liner, Imogene Scott accidentally finds herself at the center of a murder mystery and ends up as the prime suspect. To clear her name, she must team up with the man she hates the most, Detective Rufus Cotesworth.
As the investigation unfolds, every member of the wedding party becomes a suspect, unraveling secrets and lies.
Starring Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, and Dakota Fanning, the series promises intense drama and mystery.
Director Erik Richter Strand presents Behind Her Eyes, a supernatural thriller Netflix series that follows Louise, a single mother who has an affair with her psychiatrist boss, David. Her life takes a strange turn when she later befriends his wife, Adele, but soon she finds herself caught in a never-ending web of secrets and lies where nothing is what it seems.
Bad Sisters is an Apple TV+ exclusive series based on the Flemish TV original Clan. The Garvey sisters are a group of five blood-related siblings bonded closely after the untimely death of their parents. Tragedy strikes once again when the husband of Grace Williams (Anne-Marie Duff) dies. The other four sisters, however, haven’t hidden their disapproval of Grace’s husband, John Paul Williams, due to his poor treatment of her on an abusive level. His life insurer notes this and launches an investigation into John’s death. Bad Sisters will take viewers back and forth into the past and present as they unveil the truth about what happened around John’s death.
The Undoing is a 2018 film exploring themes of infidelity, misfortune, and death. The narrative focuses on the unraveling lives of those affected by a tragic sequence of events triggered by an affair, delving into the complexities of betrayal and its far-reaching consequences.
Succession is a Black Comedy and Satire television show created by Jesse Armstrong. It stars Hiam Abbass, Nicholas Braun, Brian Cox, and Kieran Culkin and follows the story of an aging conglomerate owner as he deals with his declining health and the sudden realization that one of his children will soon inherit his position and run his company.
Based on the best-selling novel by Celeste Ng, Little Fires everywhere stars Kerry Washington and Reese Witherspoon as Mia Warren and Elena Richardson, two mothers on very different life paths who become inexorably linked when Elena rents her family’s guest house to Mia and her daughter Pearl. As Pearl becomes closer to the Richardson children, secrets and past ghosts for both families as well as local scandal begin to come to light, leading to incendiary consequences. Lexi Underwood, Joshua Jackson, Rosemarie DeWitt, and Jade Pettyjohn also star.
Based on the novel by Liane Moriarty (author of Big Little Lies), Apples Never Fall is a mystery-drama series created by Melanie Marnich for Peacock in 2024. The Delaney family seemingly has it all from an outsider’s perspective. Still, when Stan and Joy sell their sports academy to spend more time with their older children, their plans are disrupted when a young woman arrives at their door, leading to Joy’s disappearance soon after.
Based on the true story and the book that chronicled it titled Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs by Jim Atkinson and John Bloom, Love & Death is a crime drama created for HBO Max. Elizabeth Olsen stars as Candy Montgomery, a Wylie, Texas housewife accused of the murder of her friend, Betty Gore, in 1980.
