Subreddit for RIPLEY on Netflix starring Andrew Scott, Dakota Fanning & Johnny Flynn. Tom Ripley, a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son to return home. Tom's acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder.
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Season 1, Episode 6: VI SOME HEAVY INSTRUMENT
Airdate: April 4, 2024
Synopsis: A ghastly discovery leads Rome police to Tom's doorstep, beginning a game of cat and mouse with its lead investigator.
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The choice of actor who plays the inspector is fantastico
Bravo to all the Italian cast. Everyone is magnificent.
Especially the actor playing Ravini.
The inspector, the Excelsior hotel clerk, the bro Bolivar hotel clerk, Carlo, Guilio (who exists!), were all fantastic, but kind of made me dread going back to the comparatively flat main cast (or I guess what was left of them lol). There’s a fine line between “act emotionally disconnected due to societal status woes” and “act like you’re reading a Chinese takeout menu”, apparently.
He’s my favorite character.
My fellow Italians getting the names wrong is so real
I just love the pacing of this show so much. It takes its time confidently. And I must say, it shines brightest, ironically, when the A-list cast is taking the backseat. Sublime casting on the Italian actors
I'd be interested to get more insight into why the director chose to have the Americans act so 'flat' (for lack of a better word), compared to the Italians. Because it was definitely a deliberate choice, not a skill issue.
As for Andrew Scott, he's playing a psychopath, so that might explain the flatness. Johnny Flynn is just not the most gifted actor, and he seemed mostly to be struggling with doing an American accent, even moreso than Andrew Scott already was. As for Dakota Fanning, your guess is as good as mine. What I do know is that her younger sister Elle is a vastly superious actress
I noticed Andrew Scott struggling a bit with his accent, but just told myself Tom must have grown up with Irish immigrants. I honestly forgot Johnny Flynn is British, so his accent wasn't an issue for me.
I don't doubt their skills as actors. Scott is giving a masterclass in micro-expressions and subtle body language changes. Flynn was really good in Emma and Dakota Fanning has been fantastic since she was a kid. The writing/directing just made them feel 'unreal', and I don't think that's an accident.
There’s a really interesting Rolling Stone interview with Johnny Flynn where he described some of the direction they received, such as how he and Scott started trying to rehearse to “try new things in the scenes,” but the director stopped them from rehearsing, and Flynn kept referencing how actors often want to do something “new and fresh” and be more creative in their performances, but the director wanted a more nuanced performance. I think this interview confirms that their performances were due to the direction, and interestingly were probably quite different than how the actors themselves would have chosen to portray the characters.
So Freddy's BAC was measurable because Tom poured alcohol into her mouth. But wouldn't the body need to be alive in order to digest the alcohol and circulate it into the bloodstream?
Non-doctor without any medical knowledge here, I'll field this! I wonder if the body would continue metabolising things for a while after death?
I also wondered about this. I also wondered why he didn’t throw him off one of the many bridges in Rome to make it look like he drunkenly fell off the side - much more believable COD
Because he is really stupid when it comes down to murders. In the boat with dickie he almost killed himself dropping first the anchor. Lol 😂 thats the point he is making a mess leaving evidence all through the place and the he tries to cover it all up through psychology and deceit. That’s his talent.
My dumbass had no idea that's why he did that...🥲
Same thought here. I think the body would absorb it eventually, as it sat in a puddle in his stomach. But I can’t imagine it would metabolize into the blood stream if the heart isn’t pumping. I’m happy to be proven wrong. But that would be my guess. I think 1) much if that alcohol may have come back up and out during all of the jostling and tossing of his body, even falling out of the car, and 2) the rest would mostly still be sitting in his belly undigested since he was fully dead before it was placed there. I don’t think it would be in his blood for their standard test to give a high reading.
Normally I would say “hey I may be wrong here since I’m sure this show looked into this before putting it in the story” but in this case, I think they use the black and white filter to hand wave away any details that aren’t convenient to the story (like the massive amounts of blood that would be all over everything, including Tom, the halls, the elevator, the outside of the car, etc. among other things.
Yes, that's correct. Putting alcohol down throat of an already dead person wouldn't make them appear to have been drunk.
"Carry your bag sir?"
"Fuck off"
Still loving this.
I need Marge to stop meddling 🥱
Had a realisation midway through the series when my husband and I weren’t both rooting for the anti-hero.
I was annoyed with the people who are “meddling” while he was hoping Tom gets caught ASAP haha
I had the same realization. I was so anxious when it looked like Tom was about to get caught and was like, wait why am I rooting for him? I wonder what that says about us.
Am I the only one that found it very hard to believe the detective let Dickie (Tom) go after the boat is found with blood stains on it? Also, wouldn't the blood stains be gone after the boat had been in the water for so long?
was thinking same - how do you have blood stain on a wooden boat that was submerged for a while?
What is the plan to convict Tom of Dickie’s murder when his body is at the bottom of the sea?
“I can. I CAN’T.”
LMAO
“I was framed!” - Lucio