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The Perfect Couple’s glamorous filming locations revealed

Simon Calder’s Travel

A new ‘whodunnit’ drama miniseries has just landed on Netflix, loaded with twists, secrets and deception as a high-flying, wealthy US family tries to untangle what happened the night before a grand wedding, after one member of the party was found dead.

The Perfect Couple stars Nicole Kidman as the perfectly-groomed Greer Garson Winbury, an aloof best-selling author who is hosting the wedding of her son, Benji, at their decadent family mansion on Nantucket, the American island that, in real life, has a rich past of hosting billionaires in their summer residences and on private beaches. However, most of the filming actually took place in Cape Cod, just a few hours away on the mainland.

Outisder Amelia Sacks finds herself marrying into one of Nantucket’s wealthiest families, but their seaside mansion was actually located in Cape Cod
Outisder Amelia Sacks finds herself marrying into one of Nantucket’s wealthiest families, but their seaside mansion was actually located in Cape Cod (Seacia Pavao/Netflix)

Plans for the big day change after a body is found washed up in the slow-rolling waves on the mansion’s beach early in the morning. The death sees an investigation by detectives into whether the victim died at the hands of someone else, and if so, who? As each member of the wedding party endures the police interrogations, more than one family secret comes to the surface.

Based on the novel by author Elin Hilderbrand, known as “the queen of the beach reads”, the Netflix adaption transports viewers to a world of serene coastline settings, exclusivity, and opulence.

Here is all you need to know about the glorious New England backdrop to the new binge-worthy series laced with cliffhangers and captivating landscapes.

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Where is ‘The Perfect Couple’ filmed?

Nantucket, Massachusetts

Nantucket has hosted a number of billionaire and important families throughout the years, such as the Kennedys, the Bidens and Bill Gates
Nantucket has hosted a number of billionaire and important families throughout the years, such as the Kennedys, the Bidens and Bill Gates (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

For Hildebrand, who created the Winbury’s world in her novel of the same name, something that was at the story’s core was its setting in Nantucket, a tiny island with a string of sandy, dune-backed beaches sitting off the coast of Massachusetts, USA.

The author told Tudum that the most important thing in the adaptation of her novel was that “Nantucket was done correctly.”

“I wanted the essence of Nantucket, which is sort of understated ease and entitlement of the place, to come…

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