who plays Ripley showed himself to be one of the best actors around when he played Moriarity in Sherlock.

Thanks for the reminder!

Planning on Riley this weekend.

Saw the Bational Theatre Live filmed version of his one man show Vanya where he played all the parts. Brilliant!

I want that cat in every scene.

It's a slow burn, but so are the books.

I like that it took more time than the Damon movie to dig into the story.

Here, as an example, to contrast with your local paper

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/steven-zaillian-how-ripley-became-netflixs-latest-masterpiece

I started and would have been in the wee small hours to binge so I have 2 and a half episodes to go. Some of those camera moves are Hitchcockian. Loved the way it is filmed. Definitely a staircase theme going on. Lots of scenes of stairs, climbing and descending.

Throughtout the whole thing I kept thinking: "WHY does nobody ask for or publish a pic of Richard??" and then I thought the perfect ending would be just what happened.

It took me a few days to get through it all, mainly because of that plot hole that stuck in my craw. Yeah, I know there was an era before smartphones when pics of people were more rare, but really?

There could have been an added scene early on where Tom burglarizes (or commits arson to) Marges' rental, stealing/destroying all the photos of Dickie he could fine -- except for one or two Marge stashed for safe keeping and thus forgets about.

how meta, or appropriate, as an homage to Caravaggio chiaroscuro style. Truly, nearly every frame was a visual masterpiece. And yes, that sage cat was a great touch.

which I never have. I kept thinking why doesn't anyone ever ask for a picture of Richard. At one point when the policeman
came to Margie's home there was a picture of her and Richard on the table and I thought there it is he will see it, but no. Lots of climbing stairs, the ashtray and the cat LOL. The limited series of 6 to 8 episodes are my favorite on Netflix, if I see more than one season I usually just pass them up, they never end.

Make plans to go immediately. Don't even think about it.