Inside the stunning coastal town where Netflix's Perfect Couple was REALLY filmed - and it's not Nantucket

The Perfect Couple whitethorn beryllium group connected nan land of Nantucket, but nan Netflix constricted bid was really filmed connected a adjacent coastal municipality successful Cape Cod. 

Despite nan truth that each of Elin Hilderbrand’s novels are group connected her location of Nantucket, nan filming unit opted to shape nan show connected Chatham to still springiness it an 'authentic Cape and land feel,' nan writer told Boston.com. 

Some scenes were still filmed connected nan costly land to springiness it a existent Nantucket feel, but nan mostly of it was filmed a short region distant wherever accumulation crews constructed clone constabulary departments and different landmarks. 

Production chose to movie nan Nicole Kidman-led bid connected nan Cape because it made proscription easier arsenic they didn't request to lug instrumentality complete connected a ferry; overall, filming connected nan Cape was conscionable much convenient.  

The Perfect Couple follows Kidman and Liev Schrieiber's characters arsenic their lives move upside-down aft a assemblage washes up connected a formation - a show early reviewers are calling 'ludicrously good'.

Chatham is simply a vibrant tourer municipality located connected nan 'elbow' of nan Cape and is nan astir easterly portion of Massachusetts. It's surrounded by 3 sides of h2o and has a rich | maritime heritage, according to CapeCode.com.  

Production crews transformed nan celebrated summertime spot into Nantucket by constructing a clone constabulary position betwixt Chatham Light Liquors and Chatham Perk java shop successful April 2023, according to Cape Code Times. 

They constructed a clone motion and had vehicles that were marked arsenic Nantucket constabulary cars, while renaming nan liquor communicative Grey Lady Liquors and nan java shop Lighthouse Perk, allowing nan coastal municipality to toggle shape into nan book's setting. 

One of bid stars, Meghann Fahy - who starred successful The White Lotus - often spent clip connected nan Cape increasing up arsenic she lived only an hr and a half extracurricular of Boston. 

'Every summer, moreover still, I spell to Cape Cod pinch my family,' she told nan Boston Globe. 'So it’s a really, really typical spot for me, and I consciousness for illustration not a batch of worldly moreover films there, truthful it felt very breathtaking to beryllium moving there.' 

Fahy's character, Merritt Monaco, moreover leans into nan Nantucket manner sense, a item she enjoyed astir nan show, moreover if it does alteration from her individual style. 

'Growing up successful New England it’s for illustration a very iconic benignant of style that I’ve ever been alert of,' she said. 'There’s nan celebrated "Nantucket salmon" aliases immoderate that reddish colour is, that’s for illustration truthful circumstantial to that area. It’s cool erstwhile you tin really get circumstantial astir stuff. It conscionable helps nan world consciousness much live and authentic.' 

The main location connected nan show is besides filmed successful Chatham. 

However, Nantucket wasn't wholly skipped, according to nan author, who has written 28 books group connected nan island. 

The 2nd portion changeable was 'extensively' filmed connected nan able land and places for illustration Bartlett's Farm had footage filmed overhead. 

'Hollywood fable Fred North took overhead footage successful his helicopter, and he later messaged maine and said it was 1 of nan astir beautiful places he’s ever shot,' Hilderbrand told Boston.com. 

Other parts of nan movie were changeable successful London and successful Los Angeles. 

The show, which released Thursday, has scooped up a assortment of reviews from 'daft' to 'derivative' to 'ludicrously good.'

The Guardian compared it to HBO's The White Lotus and Big Little Lies, different show Kidman stars in.  

The Guardian's Lucy Mangan praised nan 'proper plot' and nan 'carousel of suspects turns and reveals driblet astatine perfectly spaced intervals.' 

'It whitethorn aliases whitethorn not person things to opportunity astir nan haves and have-nots, nan powerfulness of money to corrupt, arsenic good arsenic people consciousness, but it doesn’t person thing for illustration nan liking The White Lotus, say, took successful specified questions,' she added. 

The professional insists, 'it's almost intolerable to defy bingeing nan entirety of this prestigious detective play group astir a posh wedding successful Nantucket.'

'It’s a glorious, perfectly paced delight,' she says, though nan different critics person rather nan other take.

The bid could person been a portion of 'biting satire' but, according to The Independent's Nick Hilton, nan show is arsenic 'daft arsenic it is derivative.'

Hilton claims that nan irony of nan show pinch this circumstantial title is 'for each nan beachfront properties, nan designer dresses, and wedding cakes that could provender a mini army, perfection is obscurity to beryllium found.'

He adds, 'The prima wattage of nan cast, and their imaginative bona fides, should beryllium taken pinch a pinch of salt: this is simply a neat changeable of unadulterated naffness.'

Despite Hilderbrand's emotion of Nantucket and mounting her books there, she told The New York Times that she's done pinch penning astir nan island. Her past Nantucket-set book was Swan Song, which was released successful June.  

She said she 'couldn't beryllium happier' astir her semi-retirement, according to The Times. 

Hilderbrand will adjacent beryllium focusing her power connected a two-book woody pinch her daughter, wherever nan brace will group nan communicative astatine a boarding school. 

The first book, titled The Academy, is group to beryllium published successful September 2025 pinch nan follow-up successful September 2026. 

It will loosely beryllium based disconnected her acquisition astatine nan St. George's School successful Newport, Rhode Island, she told Boston.com. 

She besides has tons of her different books successful nan useful to go films, including The Five Star Weekend, Swan Song, The Winter Street, and 28 Summers.