Netflix fans have a new show they can't stop watching as it finally got its long-awaited release.
Ripley stars Dubliner Andrew Scott as serial killer Tom Ripley with Dakota Fanning also appearing in the star-studded show that landed on the streaming service on Thursday. Viewers have been raving about the series since it dropped with the Fleabag star impressing them with his work.
Ripley is adapted from Patricia Highsmith's hit 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley - which was previously adapted for the big screen in the hit movie where Matt Damon played the titular role and John Malkovich also starred. The plot is set in the 1960s and sees Ripley get hired by a rich New Yorker to go to Italy and find his son Dickie and try to convince him to come home.
Ripley is then seen worming his way into a lavish lifestyle mixing with the elite as he turns to lies and murder to maintain his position. The updated adaptation already has fans rushing to social media to gush over the plotline and acting.
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One wrote: "Ripley: sublime, just sublime. Fantastic adaptation of the novel. This is actually a very handsomely made show and production. I’m enjoying it so far. 'Not that it will surprise anyone, but Andrew Scott as #Ripley is sublime."
Another enthused: "Loving this limited series so far. Beautifully shot and lit. The attention to detail at the beginning of the first episode really sets the tone. Andrew Scott/Tom Ripley really is talented."
A third commented: "Just watched the first episode of Ripley. Andrew Scott does not miss." A fourth social media user gushed: "RIPLEY is so gorgeously shot that it can be distracting (complimentary), with Andrew Scott devouring the titular role with ease."
A fifth said: "Five minutes into Ripley and I already love it! It's the vibe that was missing from the 90's remake. Jude Law and PSH were perfection in it, but I found Matt Damon to Be all wrong for Tom. The black and white filming, Andrew Scott, this is going to be great."
Irish actor Andrew recently opened up about the challenges he faced when filming the series. He said: "The challenge of it was 'How do you make the audience feel what it's like to be Tom Ripley, rather that where we might usually go, which is to feel like to be a victim of Tom Ripley. He's the protagonist he's not the antagonist, so it asks us to look at what's dark within ourselves."
He then admitted that the humanity of his character makes him hard to class as a "monster" as killers would usually be seen. He added: "Actually all these things are perpetrated by human beings and we have to be able to in some ways accept the very terrifying nature that people can make mistakes and be bad and inept and innocent and yet still do these terrible things and I think that's what is so sort of unsettling about the character. So he's actually a deeply human character, but maybe not one that we choose to want to look at too much."
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