It’s time to meet everyone who has RSVP’d to murder mystery The Perfect Couple.

Emmy and Oscar winner Susanne Bier directs all six episodes and executive produces the series alongside showrunner Jenna Lamia (Good Girls). Based on Elin Hilderbrand’s New York Times best-selling novel, The Perfect Couple follows Amelia Sacks (Eve Hewson), a bride marrying into one of Nantucket’s wealthiest families. The groom’s mother, Greer Garrison Winbury (Nicole Kidman), a famous novelist, spares no expense on the high-society wedding. But, when a dead body appears on the beach, everyone’s Champagne dreams quickly vanish and are replaced by suspicion. As secrets bubble up to the surface, an investigation takes hold that feels plucked from one of Greer’s books.

“The Perfect Couple is a murder mystery set over the Fourth of July weekend on the island of Nantucket,” said Lamia. “It is juicy, elegant, tense, and a little bit sensual. It is my favorite kind of show to watch; a thriller with multiple love stories embedded in the narrative.”

Meet the wedding party (and other Nantucket residents) now:

The groom’s glamorous mother and acclaimed author of the Dolly Hardaway murder mystery novels. Her latest, Death in Dubai, is coming this summer. Hilderbrand, as the matriarch of her family, sees a little bit of herself in Greer. When the author found out Kidman was going to play Greer, she was screaming “because it’s Nicole Kidman, who is, in my opinion, the finest actress of our times,” she said.

When Bier starts a project, casting is always first for her. “If I have a really hard time casting it, I pull out of it. And this one, I had fun thinking about it,” she tells Tudum. After Kidman and Bier worked together on The Undoing, Kidman told her, “Whatever you want me to do, I’ll be there.” So Kidman was Bier’s first casting call. “I called Nicole and said, ‘Would you be interested in playing somebody that we don’t necessarily like, but we can’t help be fascinated by?’ ”

When Kidman joined, the actor also came on with her production company Blossom Films to produce. Kidman was drawn to Greer’s acerbic, mysterious, formidable, and hopeful personality. “She’s a mother bear,” Kidman said.