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Episode 51: The Talented Mr. Ripley, Part I (REPOST)
Season 2 · Episode 16

Episode 51: The Talented Mr. Ripley, Part I (REPOST)

Upper Middlebrow

April 18, 20241h 14m

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Show Notes

Netflix’s new Ripley series has critics musing on why Tom Ripley is such a persistent character in our day and age. Patricia Highsmith created a character that has endured and appeared in many (excellent) film and now TV adaptations. We thought we’d share our THIRD EVER episode, in which we consider the first half of Highsmith’s 1955 novel, which introduced Tom Ripley to the world.