Highsmith

That’s where “I Don’t Understand You” devotes its more darkly humorous energies when it sends Dom and Cole to sunny, pastoral Italy for an anniversary trip, dropping them into a series of lethally unfortunate situations that probably only Patricia Highsmith would consider a proper vacation.

“Summerhouse” is redolent of the Mediterranean atmosphere of a Highsmith plot: sharp, spicy and humor black as night.

Boneta’s initial concept invoked stories about alluring usurpers such as the protagonists in Patricia Highsmith’s “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and the more recent black comedy “Saltburn.”

Hey, we’ll watch John Malkovich pretty much anywhere, but having him pop up toward the end of “Ripley” as shady art dealer Reeves is a delightful bit of casting for fans of Patricia Highsmith‘s Tom Ripley character. For those who don’t know, Malkovich starred as Ripley in 2002’s “Ripley’s Game.”

He’s going to be participating in a panel for “Ripley,” the streamer’s acclaimed adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s crime novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley” in which he plays the striving, cunning psychopath of the title.