Thursday, November 7, 2024

The Excellent Couple: Rating the Most Reprehensible Characters

The Perfect Couple. Liev Schreiber as Tag Winbury in episode 103 of The Perfect Couple. Cr. Seacia Pavao/Netflix © 2024

3. Tag Winbury (Liev Schreiber)

This man’s passion is hitting seagulls with golf balls. I really feel like that alone is sufficient to place him prominently on this checklist. Nevertheless, he’s additionally a man who has by no means labored a single day in his life, and doesn’t appear to have any aspirations or objectives. He additionally sleeps with younger ladies, will get them pregnant, after which abandons them on the common. All of that is fairly reprehensible, however, if I’m being sincere, since he’s performed by an affable Liev Schreiber, I’d in all probability nonetheless share a joint with the man … after which lecture him about animal cruelty. 

The Perfect Couple. Dakota Fanning as Abby Winbury in episode 103 of The Perfect Couple. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2024

2. Abby Winbury (Dakota Fanning)

You understand how I stated I don’t like Amelia? Effectively, I additionally don’t like Abby, in reality, I like to hate her. 

Abby is simply so overtly and openly terrible that she’s magnetic to observe. She talks about coveting pores and skin merchandise with placenta in them, orders Gosia to wash up enormous messes that she’s made herself, and tosses gossipy, passive-aggressive insults into nearly each dialog she has. She’s the very best … I imply worst. And Dakota Fanning makes her a delight to observe on display screen. However she’s additionally a assassin. 

When Abby decides to kill Merritt, we don’t see a lot emotion on her face. It’s very like she’s doing a chore or checking off one thing on her to-do checklist. It’s clear that Abby believes that the moneyed cocoon that she’s married into will shield her from hurt, however sadly for her, she will get caught anyway. Sadly, we get the sense that the Winburys don’t actually care about her both, as nobody strikes to assist her as she and her pregnant stomach get carted away by the cops. Which brings us to…

The Perfect Couple. Jack Reynor as Thomas Winbury in episode 106 of The Perfect Couple. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2024

1. Thomas Winbury (Jack Reynor)

You in all probability thought that Abby can be primary on this checklist, proper? Incorrect! Thomas is legit the worst. Much like his spouse Abby, his antics are a delight to observe unfold on display screen, and Jack Reynor has a present for comedic timing that helps masks how horrible his character actually is. However let’s verify a couple of packing containers, we could? This man is dishonest on his pregnant spouse. Test. He pulls a gun on one other pregnant lady. Test. He steals prescription remedy from a girl with most cancers. Test! All of those are completely reprehensible behaviors that counsel that Thomas has acted recklessly for his total life. And worst of all? He’s a crypto bro. Ugh. 

On the conclusion of the episode, which, presumably is identical evening Abby will get arrested, we see him preventing together with his lover, Isabel, again on the home. Um, shouldn’t he be on the station together with his very pregnant spouse? Or on the telephone with a high-powered lawyer, trying to get her some illustration? As a substitute, he’s principally doing nothing, indicating that he’s value nothing, and that’s the reason he’s unequivocally the worst of the Winburys. 

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