For the Big Little Lies fans out there waiting for the ever-elusive third season of the hit HBO series to gather steam, we’re here to inform you that you may very well be sleeping on a brand-new project that’s just as terrific. Now moving towards its sixth episode, Apple TV’s secret-laden miniseries Imperfect Women is easily every bit as captivating as other tales of mystery in the same vein and, with only a few episodes left, audiences need to soak up every moment while they can. Starring Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale), Kerry Washington (Scandal), and Kate Mara (House of Cards), the project, which serves as an adaptation of Araminta Hall’s 2020 novel of the same name, follows a tight-knit group of friends who find that each one of them is a suspect after the suspicious death of one of their own.
With supporting performances from Joel Kinnaman (For All Mankind), Corey Stoll (The Better Sister), Leslie Odom Jr. (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery), Jill Wagner (Mystery 101), Ana Ortiz (Ugly Betty), Rome Flynn (Raising Dion), Sherri Saum (The Fosters) and Wilson Bethel (Wyatt Earp’s Revenge), the latest to come from Physical creator Annie Weisman is dripping with intrigue that has quickly become one of the platform’s most-watched new titles.
Today, ahead of the sixth episode, we at Collider are excited to unveil an exclusive first look at the ever-growing tension that underscores the story at the center of Imperfect Women when more secrets pop out of the woodwork. Reaching out to her friend for help, Nancy (Mara) sits opposite Mary (Moss) at a diner and divulges the pure hell she’s been facing at home at the hands of Robert (Kinnaman). Eager to help her friend, Mary couldn’t help but wonder why Nancy first turned to her husband, Howard (Stoll), for help before reaching out. As the women talk out the evening’s events, they lean on their strong friendship and plenty of pancakes to help them get through it.
Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
How Have Critics Been Receiving ‘Imperfect Women’?
Despite having all the makings of becoming an immediate fan-favorite, Imperfect Women has driven quite a bumpy road with critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the show holds a 45% critics’ approval rating, while Collider’s Carly Lane gave it five out of ten stars, writing, “Within the overall scope of Apple TV’s thriller offerings, Imperfect Women falls squarely in the middle.” She went on to say:
Its performances are strong enough to hook you, but the narrative isn’t as consistently propulsive as it could be, and the show’s individual character spotlight robs the viewer of more development for the female friendship at the center of the story. If there’s one more point that can be awarded in the series’ favor, it’s that it spins a complete murder mystery yarn rather than falling into the trap of trying to keep things too open-ended.”
Check out our exclusive first look at the upcoming Imperfect Women episode above.
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