Why is Nicole Kidman one of the most precious actors in the business right now? Let me count the many, many ways.

First of all, while she undeniably made a very well-deserved name for herself in Hollywood with projects such as Eyes Wide Shut and Moulin Rouge, you could argue that Nicole shines the brightest in chick lit-turned thrillers. Take the huge success of the Big Little Lies in 2017, adapted from Lianne Moriarty’s page-turner of a novel, and Kidman’s subsequent turn in an adaptation of another of the author’s bestsellers Nine Perfect Strangers. There’s a classy kind of suspense that she brings to every role, including hit ‘whodunnit’ TV series The Undoing, in which she starred alongside Hugh Grant.

So I, and the rest of the Kidman stans, could not be more excited for the upcoming Netflix series The Perfect Couple, adapted from Elin Hilderbrand’s bestselling chick-lit murder mystery novel and also starring The White Lotus’s Meghann Fahy and Ripley’s Dakota Fanning.

From the look of the trailer, Kidman’s character, Greer Garrison Winbury, looks to be the glamorous, demure matriarch, with perhaps just a little bit of chaotic energy lying beneath the surface of her seemingly perfect marriage to Tag Winbury (Liev Schreiber). I can’t wait to watch the chaos unfold, with Kidman’s performance undoubtedly at the centre.

An ode to Nicole Kidman: why we need her on our screens right now