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Composers for ‘Ripley,’ ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ and ‘Palm Royale’ Detail How Characters and Eras Inspired Emmy Contenders’ Sound
Composers for 'Ripley,' 'Palm Royale' and more Emmy contenders detail how characters and eras inspired their scores.
Jeff Russo spent two and a half years thinking about, and composing, the score for “ Ripley,” Steven Zaillian’s eight-part thriller about a sociopath (Andrew Scott) who finds the high life in 1960s Italy worth killing for. For the Apple TV+ “ Lessons in Chemistry,” Carlos Rafael Rivera experimented with various musical approaches, some of them quite unconventional, but eventually turned back to a straightforward orchestral score, but with themes specific to the characters at the center of the story. Rivera, a two-time Emmy winner (“Godless,” “The Queen’s Gambit”), also wrote themes for her lover Calvin (Lewis Pullman)—”he grounds her, brings the humanity, the empathy”—and their daughter Mad.
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