For the final a number of weeks, I’ve been pushed mad by an obsession, and now I can lastly admit it. I can’t cease excited about the Excellent Couple dance.
Netflix’s new sequence The Excellent Couple has a number of elements that might make it a success. It’s primarily based on a best-selling guide by beloved writer Elin Hilderbrand, the third in her extremely in style “Nantucket” sequence. The solid is completely stacked; it stars Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Dakota Fanning, Eve Hewson, Meghann Fahy and different actors you’ll undoubtedly recognise, just like the man who performed the terrible boyfriend in Midsommar. It’s a horny, salacious homicide thriller set in a rich enclave that gives each an entertaining plot and tons of actual property porn.
However the true draw of the present? Its utterly nonsensical but completely pleasant opening credit sequence. Within the begin of each episode, your entire solid —leads, supporting characters, and extras— carry out a choreographed dance routine to an especially catchy pop track throughout a rehearsal dinner earlier than a marriage. Why? Extraordinarily unclear.
I first fell in love with the dance routine when watching the pilot episode. “Why, that is pleasant!” I stated to myself. Think about my shock when this was not simply a component of the primary a part of the present, however one thing that might repeat each episode. My husband quickly joined me to look at the remainder of the sequence, and each time the track and dance routine would come on, we’d groove on the sofa, trying the strikes (badly) and singing the track.
Predictably, the track quickly obtained hopelessly caught in my head. So I pulled out Shazam to determine it. When nothing got here up, I assumed it was a track that had been written particularly for use on this method, like one in every of my different favorite songs of all time, Elevate Your Glass by Dena Lethal, aka the Vanderpump Guidelines theme track.
I used to be utterly unsuitable! Seems, the track, Criminals, is by the one and solely Meghan Trainor. The explanation I couldn’t discover it was as a result of it hadn’t been launched but. The track formally dropped on 16 August, as a part of the deluxe version of Trainor’s sixth studio album, Timeless.
