‘Imperfect Women’ Is Supposed To Be A Suspenseful Thriller. It Fails At Every Turn.
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Kerry Washington and Elisabeth Moss are the draw for this new Apple TV series, but the writing doesn’t give them enough to work with.
How well do you really know your friends? This question underscores Apple TV+’s newest miniseries, “Imperfect Women.” Based on the 2021 book by Araminta Hall, the show is supposed to be a psychological thriller about three best friends — Nancy (Kate Mara), Eleanor (Kerry Washington) and Mary (Elizabeth Moss) — but it lacks the urgency to thrill and the emotional interest to psychologically engage the viewer.
These issues are clear from the first two episodes, which premiered on Wednesday. The show opens with a voiceover that plays over two juxtaposed scenes. In the first, Eleanor walks down the darkened hallway of a police station. In the second, she is dancing with Nancy and Mary. The scene flashes between the two as Eleanor says, “What we had was, it was powerful and essential, and it was supposed to last forever.”
The voiceover ends as the scene shifts back to the interrogation room to show tears falling down Eleanor’s cheeks while she says, “But that’s not what happened.”
Immediately, the viewer is expected to care about this trio and understand the meaning their friendship brings to the characters’ lives, but the show literally tells viewers this via voiceover rather than showing it. Watching the women dance is trite. The moment is too clichéd to make the viewer care about their connection.
They did not become friends who grow old together because Nancy is dead. The night before, the three friends met for dinner to celebrate Mary’s birthday. Then, Nancy was murdered. The central story thread is supposed to be who killed Nancy. The complications are supposed to be about how “imperfect” the women are and how the secrets they kept from each other contributed to Nancy’s death. Essentially, bringing the killer to light will expose their true selves they hid from each other, which will, in turn, reveal some larger truth about friendship.
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