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Now Streaming on Apple TV+

Imperfect Women Is Now on Apple TV+ — The Cast Is Incredible. The Show? It's Complicated.

Araminta Hall's 2020 psychological thriller gets the adaptation treatment — starring Kerry Washington, Elisabeth Moss, and Kate Mara.

Imperfect Women cover
Based OnImperfect Women by Araminta Hall (2020)
StarringKerry Washington, Elisabeth Moss, Kate Mara, Joel Kinnaman, Corey Stoll
Created ByAnnie Weisman
Where to WatchApple TV+
Episodes8 episodes · Weekly release (Wednesdays)

Our Take

Araminta Hall's Imperfect Women was one of the most gripping psychological thrillers of 2020 — a slow-burn dissection of female friendship, buried secrets, and the impossible expectations placed on women. The adaptation has assembled one of the most impressive casts on television right now. Whether the show fully honors the book is a more complicated question, but if you loved the novel, this is still worth your time — if only to watch Washington, Moss, and Mara work through material that clearly means something to them.

About the Book

When Nancy Hennessy is murdered, she leaves behind two best friends, an adoring husband and daughter, and a secret lover whose identity she took to the grave. Nancy was gorgeous, wealthy, and cherished by those who knew her — from the outside, her life was perfect. But as the investigation into her death flounders and her friends Eleanor and Mary wrestle with their grief, dark details surface that reveal how little they knew their friend, each other, and maybe even themselves. Araminta Hall's Imperfect Women unfolds through the perspectives of three fascinating women whose enduring, complex friendship is the knot the reader must untangle to answer one question: who killed Nancy?

What the Critics Are Saying

42%

Rotten Tomatoes · 31 Critics

Mixed reviews, but it's dominating Apple TV+ streaming charts regardless — audiences are watching.

"An outstanding mystery thriller bolstered by resounding lead performances — a profound portrait of friendship and the openness needed to build authentic trust."

— Variety

"So inept as a human drama and a murder mystery that it renders its award-winning cast irrelevant."

— IndieWire

"It's fine like that — the absence of an opinion either way. Except for one thing: these women are acting their faces off."

— RogerEbert.com

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