We’re telling you now: Netflix’s The Good Couple is completely addictive viewing.
Starring Nicole Kidman, Unhealthy Sisters star Eve Hewson, Dakota Fanning and The Daring Kind‘s Meghann Fahy, this star-studded collection is customized from Elin Hilderbrand’s novel, which revolves across the doomed marriage ceremony of newcomer to the rich Winbury household, Amelia Sacks (Hewson). The matriarch of the household Greer (Kidman) appears to disapprove of Amelia, however all is thrown up within the air when a member of the marriage celebration dies the night time earlier than the marriage – everybody, wealthy or poor, turns into a suspect.
However what The Good Couple actually is at its core is six scrumptious episodes of wealthy folks behaving completely atrociously – with genius comedic timing – and us as an viewers delighting in it and concurrently keenly awaiting their downfall.
A number of affairs and abuses of energy are revealed all through, with NDAs shortly served to guard members of the Winbury household. Cash is thrown (or no less than threatened to be thrown) at unethical transgressions as an alternative of precise acceptance of unhealthy behaviour. Two of the Winbury brothers even find yourself wrestling over what’s undoubtedly an unspeakably costly marriage ceremony cake. Financial price means nothing, and the household clearly believes themselves to be above not simply the legislation, however primary morals. That is demonstrated time and again when a number of family members come beneath suspicion of homicide.
Liev Schreiber’s character Tag, particularly, clearly appears to consider that he can outrun any wrongdoing attributable to his wealth. His oldest son, Thomas, is your basic misogynistic, aggressive finance bro who acts like a spoiled little one. The ladies are crafted barely in another way, quieter however no much less lethal of their scoundrel behaviour. Nicole Kidman simmers because the household’s matriarch Greer – when she’s not in PR harm management mode to guard the household’s ailing fame, she is subtly undermining relative commoner Amelia with the sweetest of smiles. Dakota Fanning’s Abby – Thomas’ pregnant spouse – and her clean supply of slut shaming, salacious in-family sh*t stirring and all-around snobbery is pure genius. We won’t stand her, however we might most likely nonetheless need her to love us if we met her.
The brand new Netflix TV collection, similar to Succession, The White Lotus – even exhibits like The Undoing and Large Little Lies, each additionally starring Nicole Kidman, in addition to Determined Housewives and Gossip Woman for these with an early Noughties fixation – revolves round significantly unlikeable wealthy folks doing horrible issues, being horrible folks, and getting away with it. For a sure stretch of time, anyway. Emerald Fennell’s divisive Saltburn additionally scratched this itch, notably with Rosamund Pike’s Woman Elspeth Catton delighting and repulsing audiences in equal measure together with her common aversion to “ugliness” and her sweetly-delivered offensive feedback, together with calling a buddy’s suicide “attention seeking”.
“When people have wealth and privilege, it can sometimes be harder to conform behaviour to social standards, because there is little cost for not doing so,” mindset psychologist Dr Rebekah Wanic explains.
