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‘Scarpetta’ Review: An Oddly Cast Nicole Kidman Makes the Most of Amazon’s Uneven, Overly Familiar Patricia Cornwell Adaptation

The Hollywood Reporter·@DanielFienberg·2 months ago
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By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic Over the past decade, I’ve written repeatedly about Amazon‘s cottage industry of mononymous crime solvers adapted from bestselling airport novels — your Bosches and Crosses and Reachers, with “Jack Ryan” as the rare example of a potboiler hero whose last name proved insufficiently evocative to stand alone. For me, it’s the genre that represents the best and most financially logical of Amazon’s original programming ventures, overlapping easily with various retail opportunities. Though the shows have achieved varying levels qualitatively, perhaps their greatest collective merit has been their evident effort at fidelity to the source material. There’s no point, I can assume an Amazon executive determined, in hoping to cultivate watchers and readers of shared properties if you’re going to alienate an existing core fanbase. To what end? ART? Be serious.…

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