Ripley - Netflix - Andrew Scott

Where and when can we watch it?

Ripley 8 episode series will launch on Netflix from 4th April

Well I guess art really is a matter of opinion

It's getting great reviews

Im Gonna have to stop reading guardian and IMDb if this turns out to be rubbish

Excellent - a different take on the characters. The film was great and this was also - we don't have to compare them and decide one is better so the other one must be shite. We can enjoy both. This was beauifully filmed and some wry dark comedy. I enjoyed the red herrings. Nice Pen!

watched the first two last night. It’s extremely slow. Seems like it’s wading in the place. I understand taking time to show some of the sights and immerse the audience in the place via soundscapes, but it’d be better if they moved on from this after the first episode and showed more immediacy. The problem I found was it’s slow so your mind wanders or you look away to something else for a minute and you miss something important that comes out of nowhere.

I saw the Matt Damon movie years ago but can’t remember it. I wish they’d went with colour as it’s not doing the location justice. Sting Jr feels like very jarring casting. Tge character sounds like a young teenager trying to come across as an adult and I was left wondering how Dickie was hanging out with Freddie. I haven’t seen enough Dakota Johnson yet to really say much about her. I’ve seen Scott in Sherlock and his Hamlet and this is his weakest showing of all I’ve seen. I’d say he’s likely miscast but he’s the cool art kid on the block now and the director looks like he’s well into his arty stuff so I’m guessing that’s why he’s in this. No reflection on Scott. He’s doing his best with a role that doesn’t seem to fit him.

I haven’t lost interest yet but I am wishing they’d hurry up and tell the story.

Never seen the talented Mr Ripley movie myself so cant compare it to that.

This series though had me hooked with the first 15 minutes.

But by the end of episode 2 we were wondering should we continue with the borefest it had become.

A few days later we gave episode 3 a go. Even more of a borefest.

Then last night we watched the first half of episode 4 and then just stopped. That was enough for us.

The only reason we tried really hard to stay interested was because a friend said he had binged the whole lot and it was amazing and kept getting better and better after episode 2.

It did not. It was worse it was getting so we just gave up and wont be back to it.

There is not one good performance from any of the actors either in what we watched.

Surprised so many on here didn't like this or gave up after 2 or 3 episodes. For me this is one of the most accomplished, stylish and engaging Netflix series in years. The pace is precisely so, because it perfectly mirrors Ripleys thought process, how methodical and meticulous he needs to be, to continue to keep two steps ahead of everyone. I loved the direction, particularly the cinematography and sound (cigarettes being lit; footsteps on stairs). Down to the way Andrew Scott says 'grazi', in that sardonic way of his.

Have watched movie too, and It's not one or the other for me, both make great tribute to source material.

5/5

It's good. Shouldn't really be compared to the film. In my opinion, the film is better, as all the actors in the film were at their absolute best in it. (Jude Law and Philip Seymour Hoffman were extraordinary). It's my favourite film. In this series, Andrew Scott is in a league of his own as an actor. I'm on episode 6 so far, and the inspector played by Maurizio Lombardi (I looked him up) is making it more interesting and adding some subtle humour (his face when he looks at Dickie's art!). I'm divided about the black and white. On one hand I think it is a shame to put that part of Italy in black and white, but on the other, it really suits the theme of the story and creates a sinister atmosphere.

I finished it last night. In the main I diff enjoy it but the last episode kind of let the thing down. His deliberating killing marge seemed a bit of. In the end I couldn’t figure out whether she was just stupid in buying his story or smart and kept one stop ahead of him. I assume the former really.

Pulling in John Malkovic to play the forget seemed kind of forced. The episode felt a bit too long I thought. In the end I was left trying to figure out what he achieved really with it ask apart from acquiring a Picasso. The stream of cash from Mr Greenleaf had stopped and it did look like he was moving in to hood next mark but it just ask seemed kind of empty.

The revelation with Msrge’s book seemed a bit silly as well. This had been niggling me anyway. Didn’t the inspector interview Tom as Tom already but then subsequently interviewed him as Richie. I’m kind of surprised as it’s shown in the series that he didn’t twig they were the same person and shouldn’t have been the jest surprised by Marge’s book.

No. He interviewed him as dickie and subsequently as a well disguised Tom. So he wouldn't have known. He knows now with the arrival of the book of course but Ripley is now Timothy fanshaw.

no, my bad. Dakota fanning. For some reason I keep thinking Johnson

I just got around to watching this but blasted through it, it’s fantastic. I love the film but this is a very different and more sinister take on the character (well deserved Emmy’s nod for Andrew Scott). I wasn’t sure about the choice of B&W before watching but it works beautifully.

I’d recommend anyone that does decide to watch to just do so without comparing to the film, just watch and let it happen and you’ll hopefully enjoy it.