Ripley Review | A Prestige Study of Cold Sociopathy
Television doesn't get more prestige than Netflix's Ripley, an extremely faithful yet visually unique adaptation.
Patricia Highsmith's enigmatic Tom Ripley character has been brought to life in some very good movies — Alain Delon played him in Purple Noon, Matt Damon took on the role in The Talented Mr. Ripley, and John Malkovich was sublime as an older version in Ripley's Game. So do we really need another Tom Ripley? Watching the story play out across eight hours of gorgeously produced television in Ripley, the answer is unequivocally yes. This is simultaneously the most faithful adaptation of Highsmith's character and the most visually unique.
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