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The Serpent review: Too many flashbacks and flash-forwards A crime drama miniseries based on the life of Charles Sobhraj Tuesday 06 April 2021 Director Star Cast Tahar Rahim, Jenna Coleman, Billy Howle, Ellie Bamber, Amesh Edireweera, Tim McInnerny, Mathilde Warnier, Aly Khan, Pravesh Rana, Darshan Jariwala "The Serpent" starts off with vim and venom, slithers through the middle episodes with frenetic energy, before making a scrappy surge through the mire of its final episodes. The story of Charles Sobhraj had enough bite to leave its mark with a far more engaging piece had it not been for a...

The Serpent: Too many flashbacks and flash-forwards   Mon, Apr 05 2021 04:05:47 PM Apr 5: The Serpent: Cast: Tahar Rahim, Jenna Coleman, Billy Howle, Ellie Bamber, Amesh Edireweera, Tim McInnerny, Mathilde Warnier, Aly Khan, Pravesh Rana, Darshan Jariwala, Direction: Tom Shankland; Rating: * * * (three stars) BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY "The Serpent" starts off with vim and venom, slithers through the middle episodes with frenetic energy, before making a scrappy surge through the mire of its final episodes. The story of Charles Sobhraj had enough bite to leave its mark with a far more engaging p...

We first encounter him in late-November 1975 at one of his regular soirees at his Bangkok compound Kanit House. When not keeping an eye on festivities, he’s tending to a young man suffering from what appears to be a severe fever. Shortly after, we see him altering a passport, replacing the existing photograph with one of himself. He then does the same with a young woman’s travel document, inserting a picture of his French-Canadian partner Marie (Jenna Coleman). Flash-forward two months and Dutch diplomat Herman Knippenberg (Billy Howle) is following up on concern from a countryman abou...

SERIES REVIEW by Richard Roeper "THE SERPENT" Three stars ** ** ** The eight-episode Netflix docudrama "The Serpent" just might hold the all-time record for number of flashbacks and flash-forwards in a limited series, as we continually zip a couple of years ahead or a few months back along the mid-1970s timeline -- a frustrating and utterly unnecessary and wildly overused device that consistently works against an otherwise fascinating, exotic, lurid period-piece true-crime story about a suave, identity-switching serial killer who makes Tom Ripley seem like an amateur. Serpentine (I see what y...

An eight-part series available Friday on Netflix. Serpentine (I see what you did there) storyline concerns aside, “The Serpent” is an effectively unsettling, fictionalized telling of the incredible and horrific series of kidnappings and murders orchestrated by one Charles Sobhraj, played to suave and oily perfection by Tahar Rahim, the brilliant French actor last seen in “The Mauritanian.” (For most of the story, Sobhraj operates under the alias of Alain Gautier, so we’ll refer to him as Alain moving forward.) The story opens in Bangkok, 1975, with Alain clearly the Man as he glides...