'Ripley' Review: This Is the Best Netflix Show in Years
Netflix’s incredible retelling of the Patricia Highsmith classic is the platonic ideal of TV.
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Netflix’s incredible retelling of the Patricia Highsmith classic is the platonic ideal of TV.
Andrew Scott is a con artist in Ripley, a stylish black and white Netflix adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley. Here's our review.
Netflix's gorgeously realized 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' adaptation is torpid, and even a bit vapid, but Scott makes for a compellingly chameleonic Tom Ripley.
Andrew ScottPhoto: NetflixIt’s been more than 20 years since the Talented conman Mr. Tom Ripley last stalked our screens. Best known to modern audiences through director Anthony Minghella’s 1999 adaptation starring Matt Damon, Ripley was last played by John Malkovich in the under-seen (and fun-as-hell) Ripley’s Game, which should give some sense of the various types of performers who walked in Ripley’s stolen shoes. Before Malkovich and Damon, French heartthrob Alain Delon and domestic lunatic D
Over eight opulent acts, Netflix's "Ripley" series luxuriates in sinister detail and Andrew Scott's impeccable performance. Review.