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Welcome to GoNintendo Expansion Pak! Every Friday we’re going to have a feature that goes beyond the world of Nintendo. That could mean an article concerning games on other platforms, a review of a recent movie, a discussion about a TV show, a thought piece on anime…you get the idea. Everyone at GoNintendo has an undying love for Nintendo, but just like you, we have other passions as well!

We watch TV and movies to, as Nicole Kidman puts it in her often-parodied AMC Theater speech, “go somewhere we’ve never been before.” So why do I keep being taken on a journey into the lives of obnoxious one percenters’ over and over again? I get that we are a society obsessed with wealth, hence why the Kardashians are famous despite having no discernible talents, but can’t we just leave that to the dredges of reality TV? Unfortunately, if the new Netflix mini-series, The Perfect Couple, has anything to say about it – the answer is a resounding no.

Based on the book of the same name by prolific beach read author Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple follows the story of well…a best-selling beach read author (Nicole Kidman), her dubious husband whose only job seems to be getting high while chipping golf balls at seagulls (Liev Schrieber), and the rest of her children of the corn-looking clan as they prepare for the wedding of their eldest son (Billy Howle) at their sprawling Nantucket estate. All seems well, until the late-night rehearsal dinner party turns deadly, and we’re left with a whodunnit tale to solve over six painful episodes.

I went into this show blind, but hopeful. I didn’t know anything about the plot other than what was teased in trailers, which piqued my interest, as did the cast. It includes some heavy hitters like the aforementioned Kidman and Schrieber, along with Dakota Fanning and a host of lovely Irish actors I’ve become fond of within the past several years – most notably, Jack Reynor, who gave spectacular performances in Sing Street and Midsommar, and Eve Hewson who starred in the critically acclaimed Bridge of Spies and the superb Bad Sisters on Apple TV+ that actually was the excellent black comedy murder series The Perfect Couple wishes it could be.