Critic Reviews

“Imperfect Women” is an outstanding mystery thriller bolstered by the resounding lead performances. It is also a profound portrait of friendship, womanhood and the openness needed to build authentic trust and community.

Imperfect Women definitely requires some patience to get through its off-putting early episodes, but the reward is a truly enthralling, psychologically complex, and genuinely unpredictable thriller.

Imperfect Women may not reinvent the murder-mystery format, but it does elevate it through sharply drawn characters and a willingness to let its them be complicated, contradictory, occasionally infuriating, and ultimately compelling.

Yes, it gets a little soapy at times, but it's still a satisfying watch because there's an emotional authenticity at its core.

Despite its lack of originality (or a conclusion worthy of its set-up), those with an unending appetite for sultry and salacious mysteries about BFFs and the shocking skeletons in their closet will undoubtedly eat it up.

While it may not be the next Big Little Lies, Apple TV's Imperfect Women is an addictive thriller with plenty to offer outside its ultimately predictable mystery.

Imperfect, then, definitely. But escapist fun enough.

While we’re skeptical that the twists and turns of Imperfect Women are really going to surprise us, we are curious enough about those twists and turns to keep watching.

Nancy marries “up.” Both her friends are jealous (Mary, of her money; Eleanor, of her broad-shouldered Kennedy of a man), and they hide their jealousy for years, staying friends with Nancy because it’s to their advantage, but unable to properly support their actual friend because of their envy. There is something to this idea, but this kind of thriller—compellingly watchable as it may be—is a hard place to explore it well.

Despite significant heavy lifting from Washington and Moss, especially, Imperfect Women struggles to sustain its own momentum every time the narrative jumps to a different point of view.