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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m one of the very few people who has read each and every one of the Ripley novels. I also loved the movie, even though it took very different turns from the book. So I was thrilled to see there was going to be this series…

Unwatchable. 100% unwatchable. Long, slow, boring, no need for the black and white, miscast, wrong tone, trying to shoehorn in diversity in a way that serves absolutely no one and does nothing for the plot. It’s a no. So disappointed. [/quote]

The diversity was a big bizarre misstep.

Zero chance Dickie and Marge would pal around with a non-binary gal who dresses like a man. Zero chance that character would exist anywhere IRL as a Brit in Italy in the 1960s. (Talk about a nepo-baby…it’s Sting’s kid and they were given a role that just didn’t make sense).

And what are the odds of a successful private eye catering to white people domestically and abroad who is black?

Tokenism. Distracting, unrealistic tokenism. [/quote]

Zero chance.

Plenty of women in the early 60's wore men's clothing, especially at Wellesley and Vassar and Bennington and those young women went to Italy and Europe all the time.  My mother did it.  It's you who are deciding this is "tokenism" and couldn't possibly exist.  Who are you to make such decisions? Are you a historian of gender?[/quote]

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