Netflix's 'Ripley' is full of Caravaggio references — here's why

It's impossible to watch Netflix's Ripley and ignore the Caravaggios. Don't even try. They loom large through Steven Zaillian's exquisite adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel, which both sticks to the source material with elegant ferocity and finds suitable moments to make its own mark. Across the eight-episode show, the eponymous anti-hero Tom Ripley (an excellent Andrew Scott) absorbs the cultural keys to the social kingdom on his identity theft quest, including the art the fancy folks app