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Ripley Recap: Something Always Turns Up
The thing about murder is that it’s so excruciatingly tedious to clean up.
Let’s consider, for a moment, the question of our sympathy for Tom Ripley, a character who starts amusingly off-kilter and turns into a full-blown psychopath by the end of the third episode of this eight-episode series (which is to say, early on). To quickly recap Tom’s red flags so far: He scammed old ladies in New York; he stretched the truth about his acquaintance with Dickie Greenleaf before he arrived in Italy; when a random guy with a suspicious air offered him money to participate in a scheme, he immediately said yes; he is definitely a little clingy, if not codependent. The murder scene, which Zaillian choreographs and shoots with a psychopath’s methodical precision, is the apex of an afternoon that has been building toward danger, simmering in an atmospheric unease established from the moment they check into their hotel.
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