Warning! Spoilers for the end of The Perfect Couple.
The Perfect Couple showrunner Jenna Lamia explains the reveal of the show's surprise killer and how it deviates from Elin Hilderbrand's novel. The murder mystery series, which premiered on Netflix earlier this month, follows the lavish wedding between Amelia Sacks (Eve Hewson) and Benji Winbury (Billy Howle) and how maid of honor Merritt Monaco (Meghann Fahy) falls apart in the shower. dead on the beach. Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber also star. The Perfect Couple It ends with the surprise of Abby Winbury (Dakota Fanning) killing Merritt on purpose.
In a recent interview IndieWireLamia goes deep The Perfect Couple's ending explains why Abby killed Merritt on purpose rather than by accident. According to the showrunner, the change in media from books to television necessitated the change because a novel is better able to reveal the inner thoughts of the characters. In the end, he tells Lamia that he believes that the murder was premeditated to create the story.more satisfying to the audience.” Read his full comment below:
“In the book, you get to see a lot of Merritt's thoughts and ways of thinking as he goes into the water to hunt for his ring. In a TV show, if we didn't use too much noise the tone of that show wouldn't work or be as effective as it should. So, I realized that it might be more satisfying for the audience to learn that there is a killer who intends to kill the person they kill. …
So for the show, and Elin totally supported it, we decided that the killer intended to kill the person he killed, and he had a very clear motive for it, and it wasn't just jealousy. Thus [we] added the money field [where Abby wants the trust money]. It needed to be a little more crisp.”
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The Perfect Couple's reviews have been generally positive from critics, though somewhat lukewarm. The Netflix crime mystery series has a 60% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes as of this writing. The audience score, now called Popcornmeter, comes in higher at 69%. In general, therefore, Lamia's narrative setup and ending seem to be popular and for a compelling season of television.
Lamia's comments highlight a broader problem when it comes to adapting novels for movies or television. the novel format allows authors to more easily present the characters' interiors vividlyetc. In a TV show, revealing a character's inner thoughts is often easily done with voice over, but it's not always a technique that makes sense in terms of tone or style. The final moments of the series put a fairly neat bow on the story, that is, any potential The Perfect Couple Season 2 could take the approach Hilderbrand takes with his novels, which is another Nantucket-set story.
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The ending of Hilderbrand's novel could have been a little more nuanced, though The Perfect Couple's characters still get a gripping ending in the series. The storytelling gymnastics required to present the story as it is in the book will likely drown the story, resulting in a less cohesive and simplified audience experience. That remains to be seen The Perfect Couple Season 2 will be moving forward, but Lamia has proven herself to be a strong choice to adapt Hilderbrand's additional novels.
Source: IndieWire