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Here are the real filming locations used in Netflix’s new murder-mystery series ‘The Perfect Couple,’ which is set on Nantucket Island

September 8, 20240
The exterior of Summerland, the Winbury’s beachside property at the center of the show.

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Despite Nantucket being an important part of the show’s DNA, it turns out that most of the show wasn’t filmed on the island.

Instead, “The Perfect Couple” was mostly filmed in Chatham, a seaside town at the southeastern tip of Cape Cod that’s just over 20 miles from Nantucket.

According to the Cape Cod Times, Sean Gibbons, a location production assistant for the series, said the decision to film in Chatham was one of convenience, noting the transportation limits that filming everything on Nantucket would have entailed.

During an interview with Netflix’s Tudum, showrunner Jenna Lamia confirmed that the real-life Winbury estate was located in Chatham.

“That was our home base, and we did enhance it with blue hydrangeas,” she said, adding that their goal was to make the show look like “absolutely delicious candy.”

“It’s wealth that looks like it isn’t trying,” she added.

Some exterior and interior sets were built completely from scratch.
Nantucket’s famous bookstore Mitchell’s Book Corner is featured on the series.

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Speaking to Tudum, Bier said production did rely on the real deal for “bits we couldn’t do anywhere else,” including scenes with a local bookshop where Kidman’s character’s book is on display and a bar where she meets with the local chief of police.

Many Nantucket attractions that local residents and tourists to the island might recognize were also filmed by location crew in 2023, including Mitchell’s Book Corner, the Brotherhood of Thieves restaurant, and the Soldiers and Sailors Civil War Monument, People reported.

Despite the minimal filming on the island, Elin Hilderbrand, whose book the series is based on, said that for her, it was vital that “Nantucket was done correctly.”

“Jenna would call and text me all the time with tiny questions about the way Nantucket was referred to. I feel confident that anybody on Nantucket, and any of my readers, will get a real sense of the authenticity of Nantucket that comes out in my books,” she told Tudum.

Hewson said filming was like being at a “New England summer camp.”
Eve Hewson as Amelia Sacks in “The Perfect Couple.”

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Speaking at a Q&A after the show’s UK premiere at the BFI Imax in London, Bier and cast members reminisced on their time shooting the series, with Hewson saying that it was like being at a “New England summer camp.”

“What did we not do? Whale watching, axe-throwing, lobster rolls, the drag show in Provincetown. We did barbecues, lots of sushi,” Hewson said at the event, which Business Insider attended. “We did everything we possibly could.”

Kidman added that alongside the cast’s group activities, she also took some time to go swimming — with sharks.

“I was the only one who saw the big signs that said ‘Sharks,’ which I totally ignored. One person congratulated me when I came out of the water,” she said.