Apple TV’s Eight-Part Thriller Imperfect Women Echoes Big Little Lies

Apple TV's eight-part psychological thriller Imperfect Women stars Elisabeth Moss, Kerry Washington and Kate Mara. Based on Araminta Hall's novel, it follows lifelong friends whose well-manicured lives begin to unravel when one of them turns up dead, a setup that will feel familiar to Big Little Lies fans.

The story centers on Nancy Hennessy, whose murder forces her closest friends to confront the possibility that the version of Nancy they loved was a carefully maintained illusion. Memory falters and grief alters recollection, and the novel places more weight on those fractures than on a traditional whodunit.

Where Big Little Lies split a town open, Imperfect Women keeps the pressure cooker smaller and more intimate. Eleanor, Mary and Nancy have decades of shared history — marriages, children, affairs and the quiet compromises of polished lives — and the series probes how much those women have avoided asking about one another.

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