Book adaptations have produced an outsized share of the entertainment we've enjoyed this year, from TV shows like A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, Bad Monkey, and Pachinko to such feature films as It Ends With Us and The Bikeriders. Netflix is getting another such title next week, a star-studded adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand's New York Times-bestselling novel The Perfect Couple featuring Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber that also has this going for it:
Amid the more than 30 new shows and...