In The Perfect Couple (2024), A wedding is derailed when a dead body appears and everyone is a suspect. The series is streaming on Netflix.
Warning: This article contains heavy spoilers
Plot summary:
Amelia Sacks is marrying Benjamin Winbury at his family estate in Nantucket. His parents Tag and Greer are incredibly wealthy and his family is a lot to take in.
Benjamin’s older brother Thomas is a douche and his younger brother Will is very reserved and awkward.
Tag has a very carefree attitude and smokes weed all day while Greer is the one who tries to keep everything under control.
She is obsessed with her image because she is a well-renowned fiction author and she ensures the people around her are also at their best.
Benjamin’s best man, Shooter Dival, and Amelia’s maid of honor, Merritt Monaco arrive a few days before the wedding, as do Amelia’s parents Bruce and Karen.
Karen is suffering from cancer which is why the wedding date was pushed forward. As the big day approaches, things begin to unravel.
Amelia finds Merritt’s body in the water on the morning of the wedding and Chief Dan Carter of the Nantucket Police is called in.
Detective Nikki Henry arrives from the mainland to assist in the investigation and they question everyone at the wedding.
Amelia found out that Merritt was having an affair with Tag and was pregnant with his baby on the night that she died.
She told Tag about it earlier that day, and Greer knew about the affair. Greer is also ignoring calls from someone named Broderick Graham.
The suspicions around Greer only intensify when they notice her closeness with Shooter Dival. He tried to leave the island despite orders but he was stopped.
They aren’t able to question him as he has some very powerful lawyers at his disposal. Amelia is reeling from the loss of her best friend when Benji gives her an NDA that Greer wants her to sign.
She agrees but finds it strange that it was needed. She learns about another woman who disappeared without a trace after tutoring French to Will for a year.
It is revealed that Tag had an affair with her too but when he tried to break it off, she tried to commit suicide. Tag and Greer paid her and her family a huge settlement to go away.
Thomas has a pregnant wife named Abby but he is also having an affair with his father’s friend, Isabelle Nallet.
Tag proves his innocence by showing the police the statistics of his sleep monitoring app but that turns their attention to Greer because she was awake during the time of the death.
The toxicology report shows that there were barbiturates in Merritt’s system, and the police gathered that that had something to do with her death.
Tag gets drunk and crashes Greer’s book launch, exposing their broken marriage to everyone.
Benji and Amelia encounter some issues because she has some unresolved feelings for Shooter after they spend some time together without Benji.
Greer finds out about the barbiturates and asks Amelia if Merritt was into drugs recreationally.
She says no and mentions this to her parents. Her mother panics and looks into her medicine case to find one of her pills missing.
Ending explained:
Lost family
The police look into Broderick Graham after he also crashed the book launch and they find out that he was paid 300,000 dollars by Shooter Dival.
They assume it was made as a request from Greer, who hired Broderick to kill Merritt. The truth is far from what the police expected, however.
Broderick is Greer’s brother and he had a huge debt with the Turkish Mafia, which is why Shooter loaned her that money.
She goes back home and comes clean to her family. She was an escort when she met Tag and their love story isn’t the fairytale everyone thought it was.
Back to the case
Bruce pulls Amelia aside to tell her that one of Karen’s pills went missing. They speak to the police and Karen reveals that she brought Pentobarbital with her as a last resort.
Three pills would kill her but one of them would only knock someone out. Amelia and Benji realize that Thomas would have stolen the pills because he does that.
He is taken in and the police try to pin the death on him for negligence but he says that it was probably Isabelle.
Thomas explains that their family trust would cash out once Will turned 18 in a few weeks, but if Merritt had a child then the clock would reset since the child would technically be the youngest Winbury.
Isabelle loaned Thomas a ton of money and he suggests that she would kill to get it back.
All for the money in the end
Isabelle denies having a serious need for money and has an alibi to prove that she didn’t kill Merrit.
She tells them to look in the obvious places. Detective Henry doubts Abby because she claimed that Thomas was in bed with her when he was actually with Isabelle that night.
The housekeeper also claims that Abby always asked her to wash the glasses, but the morning after the murder, Nikki saw Abby nervously washing a glass in the sink.
Abby was hungry for money and wanted a new apartment. She pressured Thomas to ask his father for a loan and didn’t appreciate his incompetence.
She didn’t want the trust to reset so she killed Merritt but dosing her juice with the pentobarbital.
Uncertain futures
Greer and Tag still care for each other but Greer says she is going to move away to write her next book.
Amelia and Benji agree to part ways because they just weren’t meant for each other. Isabelle goes after Thomas for turning the blame on her even though she was innocent.
Six months later, Amelia is working at a zoo in London when Greer shows up. She says that she wrote a new book and it is about Amelia.
She admits that she was jealous because Amelia was always her true self while Greer had to maintain a facade all the time.
She asks Amelia to go over the draft and if she accepts, then it gets published.
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