The former 'Hot Priest' and Oscar-winner Steve Zaillian do justice to Patricia Highsmith's criminal anti-hero in one of the year's best TV thrillers.
who takes advantage of people,” Tom Ripley tells his new friend Dickie Greenleaf in the second episode of the new. By this point, viewers have ample evidence that Tom is, in fact, exactly the kind of someone who takes advantage of people, even if Dickie and his girlfriend Marge are charmed by his company and oblivious to the threat he poses to them.already understanding that Tom is, as one character will put it later in the show, a man whose profession is lying.
Jude Law’s Dickie was impossibly beautiful, the life of every party, and a man with whom the younger Tom Ripley of the movie understandably fell in love with at first sight.‘s version of the character is more human-scaled: reasonably handsome, reasonably charming, but mostly just an idle rich boy who can float through life because his parents set up a trust fund they can’t revoke.
Perhaps the best example of this involves a murder committed on a boat, after which Tom has to figure out a way to keep anyone from finding the victim. Having to get rid of an inconvenient dead body has become such a tired trope of modern serialized drama that, when I Google my name and the phrase “corpse disposal,” I get hundreds of hits from various reviews I’ve written.
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