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Ripley Series-Premiere Recap: Up the Stairs
It’s Andrew Scott’s turn to play one of our most beloved scammers.
Wearing a slouchy leather jacket and puppy eyes, Scott’s Tom is a bit older than expected, but what he lacks in youth he makes up for in a weathered look that perfectly merges paranoia, confusion, and melancholy. Dickie and Marge have most memorably been played by Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow in Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, two-thirds of a trio that, completed by a late-’90s Matt Damon, is rivaled only by the ’60s French psychosexual drama La Piscine(starring Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, and Jane Birkin) in astronomical levels of horniness and sexiness. When he gets back to the Miramare, he looks into his reflection in the mirror and introduces himself: “Hi, I’m Dickie Greenleaf.” As a harbinger of worse things to come, this moment, as the episode at large, firmly establishes the fundamental truth of the whole Ripley enterprise: It’s a slippery slope.
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