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The most romantic season of the year is finally here and as the temperature cools down, Netflix has the perfect way to bring the heat. We are talking about its collection of hilarious romantic comedy shows featuring quirky romantic stories and a lot of hilarious comedy. So, here are the best romantic comedy shows on Netflix you should check out right now.

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Love is a romantic comedy-drama series created by Judd Apatow, Lesley Arfin, and Paul Rust. The Netflix series follows Gus and Mickey, two young people in LA coming out of a long-term relationship who meet because of a chance encounter and fall for each other but quickly realize that both of them have completely different points of view on love and life. Love stars Gillian Jacobs, Paul Rust, Claudia O’Doherty, Mike Mitchell, and Chris Witaske.

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Netflix is the biggest streaming platform in the world and it can be easily said that it has the best content library when it comes to TV shows and movies. In this article, we are going to list the best of the best shows currently available on the streaming service. We avoided popular titles like Love is Blind and Too Hot To Handle as we are not going to include reality TV shows in this list. Check out the best TV shows you can watch right now on Netflix below.

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Baby Reindeer is a psychological dark thriller comedy-drama series created by Richard Gadd. Based on the autobiographical one-man show of the same name by Gadd, the Netflix series follows a stand-up comedian who is forced to face his deeply buried trauma after a female fan begins stalking him.

Nobody Wants This one of the most popular new Netflix shows of the year! It's still early, so we don't know where it's going to end up on the Netflix Top 10 list. There's a good chance it'll be one of Netflix's biggest new shows of the year after a strong opening month after its premiere on Sept. 26.

Because we can see how many people are watching Nobody Wants This on Netflix, we know there are bound to be some fans who want some news shows like Nobody Wants This to watch after streaming the new Netflix original starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody.

Let's get the list of shows like Nobody Wants This started with another Netflix original, Love.

Love

Where to watch: Netflix

Of all the shows on this list, Love is probably the most similar to Nobody Wants This, but the shows are still quite different.

Created by Judd Apatow,...

Agatha Christie is one of the most widely read and successful authors in the history of literature. You know how an Agatha Christie mystery goes, right? A bunch of well-dressed people assemble at a country estate, or on a fancy boat, or a classy train, or what have you, someone gets murdered, detective Hercule Poirot shows up and cracks the case. Audible is bringing Christie's first-ever novel — The Mysterious Affair at Styles — back in a audiobook form, with Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister) playing the famous fictional detective.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is about an injured World War I soldier named Captain Hastings who is invited to a large country estate (there it is) where he meets a gallery of colorful characters (ditto). When family matriarch Emily Inglethorp is brutally murdered, only one man is detective enough to solve it: Hercule Poirot. Hamish Patel will play...

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Nobody Wants This is a romantic comedy-drama series created by Erin Foster. The Netflix series revolves around the relationship between Joanne, a wild-child podcaster, and Adam Brody, a responsible rabbi who fall in love with each other after meeting at a dinner party but their polar opposite personalities and different backgrounds get in the way. Nobody Wants This stars Kristen Bell and Adam Brody in the lead roles with Justin Lupe, Jackie Tohn, Michael Hitchcock, Paul Ben-Victor, and Sherry Cola starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the charming leads, heartwarming love story, and hilarious situations in Nobody Wants This, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Love is a romantic comedy-drama film created by Judd Apatow, Lesley Arfin, and Paul Rust. The Netflix series follows the story of Gus,...

John C. Reilly and Johnny Flynn look contemplative in this first look image from “A Prayer for the Dying,” the survival thriller now in production outside Bratislava, Slovakia.

Anton and New Europe Films are co-repping worldwide rights on the film, and are continuing sales at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival.

“A Prayer for the Dying” is written and directed by Dara Van Dusen and based on the novel by Stewart O’Nan. It takes place in 1870 in Friendship, Wisconsin, a small town of Scandinavian settlers still suffering the repercussion of the recent Civil War. When faced with a new and even deadlier threat, one man is forced to make a harrowing choice: save his young family or defend the community that gave him a second chance at life and meaning. Flynn will play Jacob Hansen, the sheriff responsible for the safety of the town, while Reilly will play the local doctor.

The Frog is a South Korean psychological mystery crime thriller series written by Son Ho-young. The Netflix series tells its story in two different periods of time, the first one is of Gu Sang-jun, a middle-aged man running a motel in the countryside in the year 2000, and the second one is of Jeon Young-ha, the owner of a pension house in the forest in 2021 as both of them face unexpected incidents after a mysterious guest arrives. The Frog stars Kim Yoon-seok, Yoon Kye-sang, Go Min-si, Lee Jung-eun, and Ha Yoon-Kyung in the main roles. So, if you loved the thrilling story, complex and dark characters, and surprising twists in The Frog here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Hell Is Other People is a psychological thriller series written by Jung Yi-do. Based on the Naver webtoon series of the same name by Kim Yong-ki,...

As far as TV and movie adaptations go, Steven Zaillian’s limited series “Ripley” is fairly faithful to Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley novels. In particular, the writer/director was keen to capture the sinister and dark tone of Highsmith’s portrayal of Tom Ripley (Andrew Scott), a conman who proves capable of two murders, and lies with the skill of a sociopath. To further explore this aspect of the character, Zaillian did introduce one particularly bold stroke of his own: The 16th-century Italian painter Caravaggio.

“The Caravaggio references are not in the book,” said Zaillian, while on IndieWire’s Toolkit podcast. “That’s based on when I first went to Italy [in the early ‘80s]. That’s when I discovered Caravaggio and I was fascinated with his paintings. And then did the same thing [as Tom in “Ripley”], I started reading about his life.”

As Zaillian sat down to write the “Ripley” scripts, it felt natural to...

Almost 35 years ago, production designer David Gropman worked on a Merchant Ivory World War II-era drama called “Mr. & Mrs. Bridge,” in which the opening sequence was in black and white. He still remembers watching dailies to that sequence and hearing director James Ivory exclaim, “What have I been waiting for all these years? It works so much better in black and white!”

“He was right,” Gropman said, laughing. “And I have longed to do a black-and-white film since then.” He finally got his wish with “Ripley,” Steven Zaillian’s Netflix limited series based on the Patricia Highsmith novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley” — although Gropman estimates that the eight-episode, seven-hour series was really “about five films” in scale and complexity.

The action begins in New York in the early 1960s and then moves to Italy’s Amalfi Coast, where a petty criminal named Tom Ripley (Andrew Scott) has been tasked...

In Ripley, Netflix’s dazzling eight-part adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s landmark 1955 crime novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, the approach to the material is more emotionally cold and deliberately paced than in the 1999 movie adaptation. Anchored by a bravura performance by Andrew Scott, the series — nominated for 13 Emmys — was written and directed by veteran screenwriter Steven Zaillian (Oscar winner for Schindler’s List). Zaillian joins THR for a conversation about this ambitious project’s journey to the small screen.

What inspired you to remake something that had already been tackled to great success by Hollywood?

Twenty years had gone by since the 1999 movie. I felt that there was a way of doing this in a longer format that would hopefully capture the feeling that I had when I first read the book.

Was there an essence to the book that you felt had not been captured in the film?

It was...

Back to school doesn’t mean stop watching movies, and August has a solid lineup of new-to-streaming films to watch for any occasion. Below we’ve put together a curated list of the best new movies on Amazon Prime Video this month, including laugh-out-loud comedies, indie gems, rom-coms and even an iconic franchise that hits Prime Video in its entirety. There’s a little something for everyone, so fire these up or bookmark them for the perfect time.

Check out our picks for the best new movies on Amazon Prime Video in August 2024 below.

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Filmmaker Paul Feig is behind some of the funniest comedies of the 21st century, from “Bridesmaids” to the supremely rewatchable “Spy,” so that already puts “Jackpot!” on the radar. This Prime Video original has an elevated premise — Awkwafina stars as a woman who wins the Los Angeles Grand Lottery, only to...

Matt Damon and Casey Affleck have both won Oscars for Massachusetts-set movies; Damon for writing “Good Will Hunting” with Casey’s brother Ben, and Casey for acting in the tragic drama “Manchester by the Sea.” Damon and the Afflecks’ latest Boston-set team-up, heist comedy “The Instigators,” is unlikely to win them any additional gold, but it’s a fun ride nevertheless.

Damon — reuniting with his “Bourne Identity” director Doug Liman — stars as Rory, a financially strapped middle-aged man who decides to give heisting a shot. He teams up with Cobby for some scores, and then gets his therapist Donna (Academy Award nominee Hong Chau) involved against her will. How does that make her feel? Not good! The cast also includes heavy hitters like Michael Stuhlbarg, Paul Walter Hauser, Ving Rhames, Alfred Molina, and Rob Gronkowski. Yes, this movie is so Boston that Gronk is in it. “The Instigators” is now...

Casting director Avy Kaufman admits even she was skeptical when Steven Zaillian asked her to come on board to cast “Ripley,” the Netflix limited series based on Patricia Highsmith’s classic novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley.” The story had already been adapted to screen, most notably in Anthony Minghella’s Oscar-nominated 1999 film.

“At first, I was wondering why Steve was doing this,” Kaufman says bluntly. “I’ve been lucky enough to work with him on many other projects, so I know how talented he is, but to reboot is really risky.” But the final product, which boasts 13 Emmy nominations, including a nod for casting, quelled any doubts. “It’s like a piece of art,” Kaufman raves. “I was really impressed. It tells so many different stories and gets inside the characters. I just think it’s a masterpiece.”

Kaufman first worked with Zaillian on his feature directorial debut, 1993’s “Searching for Bobby Fischer...

Emmy-nominated “Ripley” casting director Avy Kaufman was previously familiar with the Tom Ripley works by Patricia Highsmith and their adaptations. But “how clever of [writer-director Steven Zaillian] to extend it to the magical place he did … The way Steve presented it, the way he wrote it, the way he set it up, the way he outlined everything gave me and probably all the other creatives a different approach, a different look at it.” So she knew this “wasn’t going to be a remake of a remake of a remake.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Kaufman above.

The Netflix limited series follows the title character (Emmy nominee Andrew Scott), who is sent to Italy to convince rich failson Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn) to return to the United States. Instead, Ripley cons his way into the lives of Dickie and his partner Marge (Emmy nominee Dakota Fanning), and he’ll do...

Exclusive: Media veterans Jeff Bewkes, Howard Stringer and Jeremy Fox have launched Thoroughbred Studios. Their fledgling business has galloped to an overall deal with iHeartPodcasts and scored a second season order for its first project, a BBC audio drama about the CIA.

Thoroughbred’s Usp will be creating drama based on monumental events from modern U.S. history. One of the first out of the gate will be a moon-landing podcast for iHeart from 24 producer Stephen Kronish. Another project will be on the Vietnam war.

The focus will be on dramas that delve into hidden truths behind events of the American Century, a period taken as starting in the middle of the 20th century. The iHeartPodcasts deal is for a minimum of four podcasts over the next two years.

The Thoroughbred set-up sees Bewkes serve as Chair, Fox as CEO and Stringer as Exec Producer. The trio have held several...

While it’s hard to believe that Dakota Fanning hasn’t previously been recognized by the TV Academy, having now been acting for 25 years, she did in fact earn her first Emmy nomination this morning, speaking with Deadline about her upcoming Paramount horror film Vicious, her upcoming Netflix murder mystery series The Perfect Couple, and her creative ambitions going forward.

Written and directed by Bryan Bertino, Vicious watches as a woman spends the night fighting for her existence as she slips down a rabbit hole contained inside a gift from a late-night visitor. Of her time working on the film, dated for release on August 8, 2025, Fanning said, “I absolutely loved that experience, and that was very different from anything I’ve done before. It was an insane experience in the best way. I loved it and really can’t wait to see it.”

Fanning went on to say that “you...

With several Emmys stalwarts not eligible for nominations this year, it was expected that there would be a number of surprises among the 2024 Emmy nominations.

But while some series and stars broke through, other anticipated nominees from new shows didn’t fare as well as they’d hoped.

Despite a big awards push, Showtime’s The Curse failed to receive any Emmy nominations, with star Emma Stone among the awards hopefuls not nominated. Similarly, the Nicole Kidman-fronted Expats for Amazon’s Prime Video was also left out of this year’s nominations. And HBO’s The Regime only earned one nod, for its costumes, leaving stars Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant snubbed.

Other acclaimed actors who failed to receive nominations include Kelsey Grammer, not nominated for his Frasier revival after the original series was a regular Emmy winner; Abbott Elementary supporting players William Stanford Davis and Chris Perfetti; The Gilded Age...

Tom Ripley is a master of reinvention, but his considerable skills can only take him so far. At the end of Ripley,the walls are closing in onAndrew Scott’s dapper con artist, and Italian police are desperately tracking the man they suspect of murdering two people — Freddie Miles (Eliot Sumner) and Ripley himself. This gives Ripley, who’s been posing as Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn), the perfect escape hatch. Because it’s Dickie the police suspect of murder — and Dickie whose identity (and bank account) Ripley has been using — Ripley can return to a safe harbor: his own name and passport.

“People have a lot of preconceptions about Tom Ripley,” Emmy nominee Scott told Netflix of the infamous antihero created by Patricia Highsmith in her 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley. “So it’s my job, I suppose in some ways, to ignore all that and try to create our...

Few things are more captivating than a con man in action, especially when the stakes reach deadly heights.

Ripley, written, directed, and executive produced by Academy Award winner Steve Zaillian, will immerse you in a suspense-filled journey set in Italy in the ’60s. Andrew Scott leads the eight-episode limited series as the roguish protagonist Tom Ripley — and snagged an Emmy nomination for his captivating turn. You can check out the trailer above, as well as find out everything else you need to know about the forthcoming thriller. Are you ready to dive into the mind of Tom Ripley?

Scott’s Tom Ripley is a grifter scraping by in early ’60s New York. He’s hired by a wealthy industrialist to travel to Italy to try to convince the man’s dilettante son, Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn), to return home. Accepting the job...

Ripley is who assumes the identity of a wealthy American expat. But, as star Andrew Scott told Netflix, it’s also “a story about art and beauty and sensuality… helped by the great beauty of Italy.”

Based on the 1955 Patricia Highsmith novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, the 13-time Emmy-nominated limited series follows charming con artist Tom Ripley (Scott) on a trip to Italy in the 1960s bankrolled by a shipping magnate to retrieve his wayward son, Richard “Dickie” Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn). Tom ingratiates himself into Dickie’s life — much to the chagrin of Dickie’s suspicious girlfriend, Marge Sherwood (Dakota Fanning) — and soon is on the run from police while posing as Dickie in Rome.

Creator Steven Zaillian’s team of talented artists — production designer David Gropman, director of photography Robert Elswit, and costume designers Maurizio Millenotti and Giovanni Casalnuovo — meticulously re-created a 1960s aesthetic. Below, find out how...

We will update this article throughout the season, along with all our predictions, so make sure to keep checking IndieWire for the latest news from the 2024 Emmys race. The nomination round of voting takes place from June 13 to June 24, with the official Emmy nominations announced Wednesday, July 17. Afterwards, final voting commences on August 15 and ends the night of August 26. The 76th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards are set to take place on Sunday, September 15, and air live on ABC at 8:00 p.m. Et/ 5:00 p.m. Pt.

The State of the Race

There are a lot less serial killer roles this time around when it comes to the contenders for the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie, though “True Detective: Night Country” and “Fargo” are still doing their best to keep the crime wave alive. Both the HBO and FX series boast several actors...

During Steven Zaillian’s Ripley, the viewer gleans a lot from things that aren’t said, whether that’s through telltale props, intricate sets or fabulous 1960s fashion. But it’s the show’s sound mixing that really becomes a key player in the Netflix series, adding tension and mystery to scenes with little dialogue or score.

“Steve clearly planned the show with sound in mind and really left room for the environments and ambiences to breathe and support a tone,” says sound designer and rerecording mixer Larry Zipf. “We had many long stretches with little dialogue or little music, and wherever there was opportunity for sound to give the impression of life outside the frame, whether it’s diegetic or in Tom’s mind, Steve was always looking for that.”

Ripley stars Andrew Scott as con man Tom Ripley and is based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley,...

The fifth episode of Netflix’s’ “Ripley” takes a darker turn when Tom Ripley’s (Andrew Scott) perfect life is interrupted.

Having found the perfect apartment in Rome – Dickie Greenleaf’s – he receives an unexpected visitor, Freddie Miles (Eliot Summer). Freddie suspects all is not what it seems, and soon Tom ends up murdering him. Rather than dispose of the body, Tom waits until it’s dark.

Based on Patricia Highsmith’s “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” the limited series follows con artist Tom Ripley who befriends a wealthy shipping heir, Dickie Greenleaf, played by Johnny Flynn.

Lighting was important. It needed to reflect who Tom was and the world he lived in which was very contrasted. The black-and-white aesthetic would give the audience a sense of anxiety, tension and mystery.

Cinematographer Robert Elswit sat down for Variety’s Artisans Inside the Frame and discussed getting inside Ripley’s mind.

“He...

In building the world of Netflix’s “Ripley,” production designer David Gropman needed to incorporate grand Italian train stations and works of art from the early 1960s.

The series, shot in black and white, is based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” about a con artist named Tom Ripley (Andrew Scott), who befriends a wealthy shipping heir, Dickie Greenleaf, played by Johnny Flynn.

Gropman began his plunge into designing the look of the show by studying photography books with images of the time and place. “Neo Realismo: The New Image in Italy 1932-1960” was his style bible. He further utilized work by legendary photographers Pietro Donzelli, Bert Hardy, David Seymour, Herbert List and Mario Cattaneo to help visualize what this 1960s world would look like.

In particular, Gropman needed to find the right kind of train station in Italy, since the characters travel a lot around Italy.

The production design work for David Gropman on the Netflix limited series “Ripley” involved “seven sets on stage, large and small, and about 200 locations.” The rigorous location scouting process started in October 2019, paused for several months when Covid struck, and then when they resumed in January 2021 “we had like six months of scouting and pre-production then. We had a lot to prepare. We had a lot to find and a lot to prepare.” Watch our exclusive video interview with “Gropman” above.

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Based on the character created by author Patricia Highsmith, “Ripley” follows the title con artist (played by Andrew Scott) as he insinuates himself into the lives of wealthy failson Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn) and Dickie’s girlfriend Marge (Dakota Fanning). Ripley covets their lives of luxury in Italy, and eventually begins to impersonate Dickie to access his riches. The...

On June 6, the 2024 IndieWire Honors ceremony will celebrate 13 creators and stars responsible for some of the most stellar work of the TV season. Curated and selected by IndieWire’s editorial team, the event is a new edition of previous IndieWire Honors ceremonies, this time focused entirely on television. We’re showcasing their work with new interviews leading up to the Los Angeles celebration.

Dakota Fanning is ready to argue. You name the time, the place, and she’s ready to go.

“I can argue. I can outargue the best of ’em,” said Fanning. “My whole family and everyone that knows me [knows] I missed my calling: I could have been a good lawyer.”

Fanning’s portrayal of Marge Sherwood in Netflix’s “Ripley” suggests that the aspiring American writer who’s relocated to the Italian seaside may have missed her calling, too. Hiding behind that chirp of a name is a...

My guest this week is Andrew Scott.

In this episode we dig into Scott’s early start in a cereal commercial and his job in a bizarre supermarket, along with the “empathy game” that is acting, and how it cured him of a childhood speech impediment.

Scott also reveals his profound grief at the recent passing of his beloved mother, the legacy of kindness she left him with and why she was “a total hero”.

In Netflix’s limited series Ripley, Scott plays the titular role of Tom Ripley, a scheming grifter set on inserting himself into the life of rich playboy Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn). Based on the novels by Patricia Highsmith, Anthony Minghella’s 1999 film version, The Talented Mr. Ripley, starred Matt Damon and Jude Law. Scott explains why this new series written and directed by Steven Zaillian stood out to him as a fresh and different take on the story,...

In 2018, when Steven Zaillian began writing a first draft of Ripley — his TV adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley — one item in his office made its way into his screenplay: the heavy crystal ashtray that (spoiler alert) kills Freddie Miles in the fifth episode.

But Zaillian’s foray into the story of con man Tom Ripley started long before 2018. Ten years ago, a unique proposal popped up on his radar — a TV series. “If it had been proposed as another movie, I would’ve said no,” he tells THR, “but as an eight-hour series, I thought, ‘This could be interesting.’ ”

For starters, he wanted the limited series — about a grifter, Tom Ripley, who covets, and then kills for, the lifestyle of his wealthy former classmate Dickie Greenleaf — to be in black and white. “When I first read the book, it’s how I felt it should look.

“I suppose you just have to make a decision pretty early on that the biography of the character … isn’t ever going to be reliable,” explains Andrew Scott about playing the duplicitous title character in the Netflix limited series “Ripley.” To portray someone whose true nature is hidden beneath layers of deception, the actor worked to “establish a kind of emotional backstory for him and to decide what things that I perhaps think he might be lying about and really try to focus on the things that he really believes.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Scott above.

When we meet Tom Ripley, he’s a petty con artist living in 1960s New York City. He’s approached by Herbert Greenleaf (Kenneth Lonergan), whose son Dickie (Johnny Flynn) is living the high life in Italy. Herbert wants him to return home and hopes that Tom will be able to convince him.

It’s one of those odd April days in Los Angeles, the type that locals know well: Hours after noon, the sun still seems ambivalent about whether it wants to make itself known. An outsider wouldn’t think it possible for the gleaming capital of show business to feel so grayed out. But if you grew up on an island where colorless skies are the norm, it might feel familiar.

“It’s like, Will I? Won’t I?” the Irish actor Andrew Scott quips as he settles into his chair on the rooftop of the Edition Hotel in West Hollywood. He’s been in town promoting his Netflix series “Ripley,” which launched a few weeks ago, and the foreboding weather seems apt. On that limited series, the Italian vistas seem as unsettled as its antihero’s soul. The show’s vibe is “almost like L.A., what we’re looking at here now,...

Bridgerton has become an obsession for nearly everyone watching the series and it is no surprise because it has romance, drama, and political intrigue all in a beautiful period setting. Netflix’s Bridgerton recently aired its third season and so far fans seem to enjoy it. With the fourth season already renewed the fans just have to wait until it comes out but while you wait here are the best similar shows you should check out after binging Season 3.

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Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story is a prequel series to the Netflix hit series Bridgerton. Created by Shonda Rhimes, the Netflix series is loosely based on the rise of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in the late 18th century and her epic love story and married life with King George of England. Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story stars India Amarteifio in the lead role with Adjoa Andoh,...

Given its warm critical reception and past PGA and SAG Award notices, it makes sense that “Mr. Monk’s Last Case” has maintained a massive lead over its Best TV Movie competitors ever since we opened our 2024 Emmys predictions center. However, because the original “Monk” was never even nominated for Best Comedy Series during its eight-season run, the one-off Peacock continuation can’t exactly be considered a shoo-in. In truth, it faces quite a few strong challengers, including the laugh-packed Netflix offering “Unfrosted.”

Hours before its May 3 premiere, “Unfrosted” rose above its 100/1 Gold Derby odds and pulled ahead of both “Finestkind” and “Genie” to become this year’s seventh most likely TV movie nominee. Its next immediate challenge is passing sixth place runner “Scoop” (also from Netflix), which is currently a predicted nominee among our editors and experts.

Limited series acting hopefuls Nicole Kidman (“Expats”) and Johnny Flynn (“Ripley”) also recently improved upon their 100/1 odds,...

As you prepare to make your 2024 Emmy predictions for Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actor, make sure you check out our photo gallery featuring the strongest contenders. Hot off his Oscar win for his featured turn in “Oppenheimer,” Robert Downey Jr. is this race’s frontrunner based on his villainous, multi-character performance in “The Sympathizer.”

Potential category newcomer Downey could be forced to fend off an entire slate of veteran contenders, including 1995 winner Donald Sutherland (“Lawmen: Bass Reeves”; formerly of “Citizen X”).

Included among this category’s former nominees who might show up again are “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans” cast mates Treat Williams and Joe Mantello as well as Jake Lacy, who delivered qualifying performances in both “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” and “Apples Never Fall.”

Frontrunners

Robert Downey Jr., “The Sympathizer”

Lewis Pullman, “Lessons in Chemistry”

Jonathan Bailey, “Fellow Travelers”

John Hawkes, “True Detective: Night Country”

Joe Keery,...

“The light. Always, the light.” Tom Ripley is staring at a Caravaggio painting in a Roman church, his typical blank expression a touch more bewildered than usual, when a priest comes up behind him and tells him to pay attention to the light, how the artist uses the contrast of brightness and deep shadow to direct the eye. The moment is brief; Tom isn’t one for introspection, and like a shark, he never stays in place for long. But the line doubles as a clue to the audience as well, some of whom have been as bemused as Tom by “Ripley’s” quietly dazzling style.

In Steven Zaillian’s adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s “The Talented Mr. Ripley” for Netflix, shot entirely in precise, pitiless black-and-white, light is Zaillian’s most crucial storytelling tool in “Ripley.” The script is carefully paced, often wordless, but every shot shines a light on a new,...

Netflix’s surprise hit psychological dark comedy series Baby Reindeer is surprising people with its cute name and intensely dark story. Created by Richard Gadd, the Netflix series is based on Gadd’s autobiographical one-man show of the same name and it tells Gadd’s experience of being sexually assaulted in his 20s. Baby Reindeer stars Gadd in the lead role with Jessica Gunning, Nava Mau, Tom Goodman-Hill, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Danny Kirrane, Hugh Coles, and Nina Sosanya starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the psychologically thrilling look on obsession and the rawness of the dark comedy in Baby Reindeer you should check out these similar shows next.

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You is a psychological crime thriller series created by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble. Based on a novel series of the same name by Caroline Kepnes, the Netflix series follows the story of Joe Goldberg, a young...

Nicole Scherzinger, Succession star Sarah Snook, Game of Thrones and Sherlock actor Mark Gatiss, a revival of the musical Sunset Boulevard and the play Stranger Things: The First Shadow were among the winners at the 2024 Olivier Awards, which celebrate achievements in London theater. The ceremony at Royal Albert Hall in the British capital was hosted by Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham.

The revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s Sunset Boulevard, which has starred Scherzinger as Norma Desmond and is set to come to Broadway this year, won the best musical revival award, the best actress honor for the former Pussycat Dolls singer and five other honors after also leading the nominations with 11.

Stranger Things: The First Shadow, a prequel to the Netflix hit series, which has hinted at its Broadway ambitions, won the best new entertainment or comedy play award, as well as the Olivier for best set design.

Dear England,...

Tom Ripley is back and in a big way. First introduced in Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 psychological thriller novel, Ripley is a sociopath, murderer, and con artist. He’s also the character Highsmith identified with-no wonder she wrote four more novels featuring Ripley. A 2023 New York Times article stated, “her concepts are daring, her portrayals of men in the throes of personality disorder and psychopathic leanings are equally repulsive and propulsive…she was a lesbian who identified more with men; an ardent pursuer of pleasure, especially in her youth…a raging antisemite…she could never hold on to happiness.”

Andrew Scott, the “hot priest” of “Fleabag,” is the latest actor to play the character described as having “an elusive sexuality,” in Netflix’s “Ripley,” a handsome, black-and-white limited series from Oscar-winning screenwriter/director Steve Zaillian (“Schindler’s List”).

Ripley’s a small-time con man living in a seedy room in New York...

Last week, the Netflix streaming service released Ripley, a limited series adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Talented Mr. Ripley that sees Andrew Scott taking on the title role. (You can read our review Here). Tom Ripley is a character who has been fascinating readers and viewers for decades, as he was at the center of multiple novels written by Highsmith. Ripley was originally set up Showtime, where Schindler’s List Oscar winner Steven Zaillian – who wrote and directed all eight episodes of Ripley – was planning to use all of the Ripley novels as “a road map to showcase Ripley’s transformation from con artist to serial killer” over the course of an on-going series. Now that Ripley has made its way out into the world on Netflix, Scott and Zaillian have both said that it’s possible the show could return for more seasons that could adapt more of the books…...

In a riveting conclusion, the final episode of Netflix’s latest series, Ripley, left audiences grappling with uncertainty and anticipation.

As viewers attempt to decipher the aftermath of Tom Ripley’s enigmatic schemes, questions regarding the fate of the notorious and debonair criminal pop up.

Adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s acclaimed novels, Ripley chronicles the exploits of the charismatic yet sinister Tom Ripley, portrayed by Andrew Scott.

With a potential wealth of material from Highsmith’s five-book series, the show holds promise for multiple seasons.

The series is a hit for Netflix but is yet to get the green light for Season 2.

Set against the backdrop of Italy, viewers see Tom embroiled in a web of deceit and murder.

Netflix’s Ripley ending explained

Initially tasked with persuading the affluent Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn) to return home, Tom’s scheme takes a darker turn as he assumes Dickie’s identity after killing him.

On April 4, 2024, Netflix began streaming “Ripley,” a limited series based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 crime novel of the same name. Starring Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley, Johnny Flynn as Dickie Greenleaf, and Dakota Fanning as Marge Sherwood, the eight-episode limited series was created, written and directed by Steven Zaillian.

In the series, a grifter named Ripley living in New York during the 1960s is hired by a wealthy man to begin a complex life of deceit, fraud, and murder. The show is a hit with critics, certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with a score of 88%. The critics consensus reads, “Bathed in opulent black and white with a reptilian Andrew Scott holding the screen hostage, Steven Zaillian’s sumptuous reinterpretation of ‘Ripley’ draws fresh blood from Patricia Highsmith’s insidious social climber.” Read our review round-up below.

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When we meet Tom Ripley at the start of Steve Zallian’s eight part adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s celebrated novel The Talented Mr Ripley, he’s not the fresh faced chancer of Matt Damon’s Ripley in Anthony Minghella’s 1999 version. Andrew Scott’s Ripley is a grifter in his 40s, a jaded low-level fraudster living in New York. He’s not even especially talented – or not at this point anyway.

An encounter with shipping magnate Herbert Greenleaf sees Ripley heading to Italy on Greenleaf’s dime to lure back his errant son Dickie (Johnny Flynn) who is living in the idyllic city of Atrani on the Amalfi coast. Here Dickie paints, hangs out on his yacht, flirts with the locals and lives in a beautiful home with his girlfriend Marge (Dakota Fanning). Ripley insinuates himself into Dickie’s life but soon grows obsessed, not just with the lifestyle but with Dickie himself.

Patricia Highsmith’s charming devil has fascinated film-makers since the 1960s, but his brand of evil seems peculiarly well suited to the Instagram age

He’s back. But he never went away. Patricia Highsmith’s diabolically inspired postwar creation Tom Ripley has returned, to luxuriate in our 21st-century age of Instagram lifestyle envy, tacit class paranoia and online identity fraud. He has triumphantly resurfaced in Steven Zaillian’s sumptuous and instantly addictive new eight-episode adaptation of Highsmith’s novel The Talented Mr Ripley for Netflix, starring the incomparable Andrew Scott as the charmer, aesthete and serial killer. It’s a seven-star luxury hotel of a TV show in arthouse black-and-white, which my colleague Lucy Mangan has hailed as quite possibly definitive.

It’s set in the early 60s, but has a queasy resonance for 2024. At an unhurried tempo, Scott’s Ripley is shown surmounting his early unease and likable callow vulnerability,...

[Editor’s note: Spoilers for “Ripley” below.]

The turning point for “Ripley,” Steven Zaillian’s limited Netflix series re-imagining of Patricia Highsmith’s crime novel, “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” occurs in Episode 3 (“Sommerso”), when grifter Tom Ripley (Andrew Scott) murders Dickie (Johnny Flynn) in a boat in Sanremo. But the grifter discovers that murder is a filthy business in a bravura 20-minute sequence, in which he has difficulty disposing of Dickie’s body, and we observe every arduous moment in close to real-time.

This protracted view of Tom’s twisted mind in action is made even more menacing in black-and-white (shot by “There Will Be Blood” Oscar winner Robert Elswit). After learning that his grift has come to a sudden end, Tom grabs the oar and beats Dickie to death. But then everything goes wrong.

“I had written down on a post-it when I first started writing that ‘It’s easy to kill somebody but...

Ripley is a psychological crime-thriller series written and directed by Steven Zaillian. Based on a 1955 novel titled The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith, the Netflix series is set in the 1960s and it follows the story of Ripley as a wealthy man hires him to convince his son to come back home from Italy. However, when Ripley gets there he gets jealous of the oppulant life the wealthy man’s son is leading and decides to take it for himself. The novel by Highsmith was adapted once before into a film written and directed by Anthony Minghella, and it starred Matt Damon as the titular character. Ripley stars Andrew Scott in the lead role with Dakota Fanning, Johnny Flynn, Eliot Sumner, and Maurizio Lombardi starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved Zaillian’s take on The Talented Mr. Ripley, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Talented Mr. Ripley has been adapted into films by directors from different regions, including René Clément from France, Anthony Minghella from the US, and Jeeva Shankar from India. The current rendition, Ripley, streaming on Netflix, is a web series written and directed by Academy Award winner Steven Zaillian. It unfolds in eight leisurely-paced episodes that grab our attention from the beginning and keep us engaged in this amoral tale of fabrication, betrayal, and murder. It is a gritty tale of an individual’s challenging pursuit to assume a deceased person’s identity to achieve financial stability and maintain a respectable public image. The primary story surrounds the titular fraudster at the low of his occupation when all his shrewd manoeuvres are devised to outwit the victims and fizzle out. The dramatic events stem from the chain of events that are set in motion when an...

Andrew Scott’s latest venture, the Netflix series Ripley, has made a striking debut with a similar rating among both critics and viewers.

Based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, the monochrome series unfolds the tale of conman and serial killer Tom Ripley, portrayed by Scott, as he orchestrates schemes for wealth in 1960s Italy.

Along with Scott as Ripley, the cast of the series include Johnny Flynn as Dickie Greenleaf and Dakota Fanning as Marge Sherwood.

Scott gained prominence for his roles in Fleabag and BBC’s “Sherlock,” notably as Jim Moriarty.

His portrayal in the 2023 drama All of Us Strangers earned him widespread acclaim.

Now Scott appears to have another hit with the Netflix series Ripley.

Ripley score a high Rotten Tomatoes rating with audience and critics

Premiering on the streaming platform on April 4, the eight-episode series has garnered reviews, currently boasting an impressive 86% approval...

Andrew Scott has been in the limelight for many years since his breakthrough role as James Moriarty in the hit BBC series Sherlock. The actor has gone on to star in big-budget films such as Spectre, 1917, and was recently up for awards considerations for his impressible performance in All of Us Strangers.

Benedict Cumberbatch and Andrew Scott in Sherlock

However, his most popular and talked-about role is of the Hot Priest in Fleabag season 2. His adorable chemistry with Pheobe Waller-Bridge and their doomed bittersweet romance proved to be the highlight of the series. Even after 5 years since the end of season 2, some fans have not gotten over the heartbreak, and Scott has a message for them.

Andrew Scott Urges Fans To Move On From Fleabag and Be Happy Andrew Scott’s role in Fleabag season 2 is one of the most beloved ones in his career

Andrew Scott brought a mesmerizing...

Patricia Highsmith’s thrilling novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley” has been adapted for the screen multiple times since its publication in 1955, most notably in the 1999 film of the same name starring Matt Damon and Jude Law. But now the story of a con man taking over the life of the wealthy playboy he’s been sent to bring home is being given the limited series treatment, and it’s must-see TV.

Initially developed for Showtime by Oscar winner Steven Zaillian, the eight-episode “Ripley” has moved to Netflix, where the highly bingeable but tense series is able to be devoured all at once, just as it should be. Andrew Scott’s portrayal of the titular character is less charming than it is full-on sociopath, but it really works, while Johnny Flynn steps into the shoes of rich boy Dickie Greenleaf. One might quibble about the ages of the actors versus the...

Johnny Flynn was murdered within a week of stepping onto the set of Ripley.

The British actor plays Dickie Greenleaf in the eight-episode Netflix adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley and while he knew the character would meet an untimely demise in the story, he wasn’t prepared for it to be within days of meeting Andrew Scott, who plays the title character.

“I was just getting to know Andrew and there he is bludgeoning me and cradling my dead body,” Flynn tells Rolling Stone. “It was a good icebreaker.

Johnny Flynn said it was “brilliant” to be killed on “Ripley” — though his character Dickie Greenleaf may disagree.

The English actor joined his costars in Italy for preproduction and rehearsals on Steve Zaillian’s Netflix series, but then Flynn flew back home when the cameras started rolling. Costar Andrew Scott and others started out with scenes from later in the series, after Dickie’s death in Episode 3, and when Flynn returned it was to start things off with that fateful boat sequence.

“I love tech, the technical aspects of filmmaking, and I’ve never been part of a sequence that’s been more technical,” Flynn said at a panel discussion with Zaillian and the cast after an early screening of Episodes 1-3 in New York City. “It was like one of the first things that we did because we had the stuff in the tank and then they knew what...