Speak Up Saturday: What are you watching?

[yourlibrarian]

It's already Saturday again, which means it's time to take stock of what we've been watching and how we've been liking it. So let's share!

Comments

[caramarie]

I'm a couple of episodes into Ripley and ambivalent about it (noting imprinted on The Talented Mr Ripley at an age where I was probably too young to actually be watching it :p) I don't actually feel like the Ripley here is that into Dickie, and I should??

Also halfway through the Netflix 3 Body Problem now and enjoying it. Although I suspect I might not want to overthink some elements!

[feurioo]

He's not that into Dickie?! I have questions.

[caramarie]

I think he's *meant* to be, but maybe because Scott's Ripley is such a cipher it's hard for me to feel it? Idk it's weird!

[feurioo]

I'm currently in episode 3, and the choice now makes a lot more sense to me considering *how* one major plot point happens. I've always liked the really tragic Minghella interpretation but this simply isn't a version of events in which...

Spoilers for episode 3.

...Tom would lie in the boat while hugging Dickie's corpse. Instead, he takes his ring using Dickie's blood. It's actually pretty interesting how detached Tom seems from everything and everyone including his sexual orientation. The kind of homoeroticism of the Minghella movie was simply never in the cards for this version of the character. I'm now really curious about what freeing himself of the Tom Ripley identity could mean for him concerning his sexual repression.