Ripley: A Hard Man To Find Show Only
April 7, 2024 9:16 AM - Season 1, Episode 1 - Subscribe
A grifter named Ripley (Andrew Scott) living in 1960s New York is hired by a wealthy man to visit Italy and convince his son to come home. (8-episode mini-series, Netflix, 2024)
Reviews:
NPR: Netflix's stylish 'Ripley' stretches the grift — and the tension — to the max
Art Daily: The con man gets the art house treatment (in lieu of the same NYT paywalled article)
Vulture: The Remorseless Mr. Ripley: Andrew Scott’s phenomenal take on Patricia Highsmith’s con man anchors a deliciously mean adaptation.
Reviews:
NPR: Netflix's stylish 'Ripley' stretches the grift — and the tension — to the max
Art Daily: The con man gets the art house treatment (in lieu of the same NYT paywalled article)
Vulture: The Remorseless Mr. Ripley: Andrew Scott’s phenomenal take on Patricia Highsmith’s con man anchors a deliciously mean adaptation.
I have no idea what this is about, but it is indeed gorgeous, and has me hooked.
posted by 2N2222 at 7:32 PM on April 7, 2024 [1 favorite]
posted by 2N2222 at 7:32 PM on April 7, 2024 [1 favorite]
Absolutely fascinating and enthralling. adrianhon is exactly right about the look. I'm not sure if it is an artifact of the black & white cinematography or some other technique/effect, but I feel like I am watching real people, not actors. It's almost disconcerting at times (Ripley's first meeting with Mr. Greenleaf in particular), but in a way that delightfully enhances the tension in every line.
Su! Su! Su!
posted by Rock Steady at 7:54 AM on April 8, 2024 [1 favorite]
Su! Su! Su!
posted by Rock Steady at 7:54 AM on April 8, 2024 [1 favorite]
I love that the show decides the Italian we here in this episode needs no translation. Like Ripley, we will work out the code pretty quickly. So "Su! Su! Su!" indeed then "Giù!, Giù!, Giù!"
Atrani: beautiful, vertiginous yet rather bleak, isolated and empty looking despite the sun - is like a character in its own right.
posted by rongorongo at 10:37 PM on April 15, 2024 [2 favorites]
Atrani: beautiful, vertiginous yet rather bleak, isolated and empty looking despite the sun - is like a character in its own right.
posted by rongorongo at 10:37 PM on April 15, 2024 [2 favorites]
For some reason the visual of the bus ride to Atrani reminds me a lot of this meme.
it's tailor made for the biggest, sharpest screen you have. It's amazing to think the kind of cinematography they've done here would've been deeply inadvisable just a decade or two ago when people had smaller TVs.
As someone with a TV from a decade or two ago (a 42" LED from 2008, to be precise, but it still works great so we aren't replacing it until it dies), this observation made me wonder what we're missing, but I don't think it's much. It still looks beautiful.
posted by urbanlenny at 8:56 AM on May 16, 2024 [1 favorite]
it's tailor made for the biggest, sharpest screen you have. It's amazing to think the kind of cinematography they've done here would've been deeply inadvisable just a decade or two ago when people had smaller TVs.
As someone with a TV from a decade or two ago (a 42" LED from 2008, to be precise, but it still works great so we aren't replacing it until it dies), this observation made me wonder what we're missing, but I don't think it's much. It still looks beautiful.
posted by urbanlenny at 8:56 AM on May 16, 2024 [1 favorite]
I can’t stop comparing this to The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999). I’ve just watched both, and am very pleasantly surprised they are entirely different moods, vastly different vibes. Both excellent and worth re-watching in their own right.
One core difference is Ripley has a much older cast of expat youngsters. Recall that Matt Damon (Tom) was 29 when TTMR came out Xmas week 1999; Jude Law (Dickie) & Gwyneth Paltrow (Marge) were both 27.
Was stunned to discover Ripley’s Andrew Scott (Tom) is now 48 years old - I’ll have what he’s having! Johnny Flynn (Dickie) is 41, and Dakota Fanning (Marge) is 30. This cast somehow looks a lot more authentic to old photos of how people used to age in the time before skincare. I would fully believe they are 1961’s 20-somethings. Flynn’s Dickie in particular looks and carries himself so accurately like the scion of a wealthy East Coast preppy family, to the point I was thrilled to discover he’s a Brit. Delightful dialect coaching work, all around.
posted by edithkeeler at 6:44 AM on January 10 [2 favorites]
One core difference is Ripley has a much older cast of expat youngsters. Recall that Matt Damon (Tom) was 29 when TTMR came out Xmas week 1999; Jude Law (Dickie) & Gwyneth Paltrow (Marge) were both 27.
Was stunned to discover Ripley’s Andrew Scott (Tom) is now 48 years old - I’ll have what he’s having! Johnny Flynn (Dickie) is 41, and Dakota Fanning (Marge) is 30. This cast somehow looks a lot more authentic to old photos of how people used to age in the time before skincare. I would fully believe they are 1961’s 20-somethings. Flynn’s Dickie in particular looks and carries himself so accurately like the scion of a wealthy East Coast preppy family, to the point I was thrilled to discover he’s a Brit. Delightful dialect coaching work, all around.
posted by edithkeeler at 6:44 AM on January 10 [2 favorites]
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posted by adrianhon at 12:55 PM on April 7, 2024 [6 favorites]