“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.

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.

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.

There is nothing wrong with “Imperfect Women,” but that is neither praise nor criticism. It’s just fine.

An unfortunate title for a far-from-perfect show, one that takes a gaudy assortment of talent and delivers a limited series that’s much less than the sum of its parts.

Despite some interesting shifts in point of view that dominate the middle episodes, “Imperfect Women” unfortunately feels like nothing more than expired leftovers. .... One of the worst shows that Apple TV has released.

The series’ ad nauseam repetition, its pat dialogue laying bare its themes and episode titles reaffirming those ideas, feel like a desperate, and ultimately failed, attempt to prove to us — or maybe to itself — that Imperfect Women actually has something enlightening to say.