Netflix's 'Ripley' starring Andrew Scott is now streaming. Based on Patricia Highsmith’s seminal series of Tom Ripley novels, the series reinterprets 'The Talented Mr. Ripley.' How are the TV show and series different, and what else is there to know?
was not enough to sate your appetite for vaguely homoerotic, hyper class-conscious stories about conmen and grifters, then have no fear, for Netflix’s newnovels and written and directed by Oscar winner Steven Zallian, this updated take on the familiar grifter series finds Tom Ripley traveling to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf , a rich trust fund kid, to return to New York.
. But unlike that Anthony Minghella classic, which starred Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Philip Seymour Hoffman, Netflix’sis able to dive deeper into Tom Ripley’s inner-world. With eight hour-long episodes , the series has much more room to breathe, allowing for plenty of new insights into this elusive character and his particular quirks.Tom Ripley from previous versions of the character.
The cast is rounded out by musician-cum-actor Eliot Sumner as Freddie Miles, a friend of Dickie and Marge’s, who is immediately skeptical of Tom; Maurizio Lombardi as Pietro Ravini, an Italian inspector hired to investigate the murder of one of Tom’s victims; Margherita Buy as the landlord for a fancy apartment Tom rents in Venice; John Malkovich as Reeves Minot, who Tom meets at a swank party; and Kenneth Lonergan as Herbert Greenleaf, Dickie’s father, who is largely responsible for setting...
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