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‘Imperfect Women’ Star Kerry Washington on Eleanor’s Affair, Her Lies and That Viral Scandal: ‘I Get Frustrated With Her the Way We Might Get With Ourselves’

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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains stories from the Episode 3 of “Imperfect Women,” now streaming on Apple TV.

Kerry Washington‘s Eleanor really is an imperfect woman. One of the three leads of Apple TV’s thriller series, “Imperfect Women,” Eleanor has made no shortage of mistakes over the first three episodes.

Adapted from Araminta Hall’s novel of the same name, the show follows a trio of best friends whose lives are shattered when Nancy (Kate Mara) is murdered, leaving Mary (Elisabeth Moss) and Eleanor to re-evaluate everything they thought they knew about her — and their own lives.

The first three episodes focus on Eleanor, told through her perspective as she navigates the burden of being the only person to know that Nancy was having an affair with a man named David, but having no other details — and the feelings she’s long had for Nancy’s husband, Robert (Joel Kinnaman). The director of an international non-profit, Eleanor eventually starts an affair with Robert when they travel to Robert’s Ojai house in Episode 2, much to the displeasure of Mary and Eleanor’s brother Donovan. (Leslie Odom Jr.)

Things come to a head in Episode 3 when Eleanor (after the pair sleep together for the first time) realizes Robert lied about being in the dark about Nancy’s affair, and even wrote his wife a letter apologizing for his outburst when he found out. He denies any involvement in Nancy’s murder, and Eleanor storms out… only to return the next night and continue their illicit relationship. Robert’s college-aged daughter, Cora (Audrey Zahn), walks in on them fooling around in the pool, and despite the duo’s protests that nothing is going on between them, realizes she’s being lied to. The next day, Eleanor walks into work and is met by pointed stares and hushed whispers, thanks to a viral TikTok posted by Cora where the teenager has proclaimed, “Don’t you hate it when your dead mom’s best friend fucks your dad?!”

‘Imperfect Women’ Star Kerry Washington on Eleanor’s Affair, Her Lies and That Viral Scandal: ‘I Get Frustrated With Her the Way We Might Get With Ourselves'