...your subject line was referring to the warrant office on the Nostromo, the one with the cat.

Highly recommend it. Super well acted, and the art direction is nothing short of magnificent.

Filmed in black and white, Ripley is stunningly beautiful to look at even at it's darkest.

The most glaring is the way Ripley is portrayed. Damon's Ripley could be at least charming, sometimes especially so, while Scott's is devoid of any reason that I can see (into episode three now) for people to want to be around him. He's just kind of evil and weird. In the movie you could see why Dickie and Marge could become enamored with him initially. So that makes the entanglement between them in the series hard to buy. But maybe that's how it is portrayed in the books (which I haven't read).

Other than that it is well-made, with beautiful cinematography, as others have noted. I think that, along with the B&W, and attention to detail give a very believable portrait of Italy at that time. So far I would say it is not as good as the movie but still worth watching.

There was almost a reversal, in that, when they first met, it was *Dickie* who behaved unfriendly for no apparent reason, but later, as he begins to know Tom *then* he accepts him. Seems like it should have been reversed.

The *only* time I liked Tom was near the end, when he wore that wig and beard. Wonder why he wouldn't have kept wearing that?

Everything about the series was excellent, from the art direction as others have said, to nuggets such as the cat in the lobby to using Malkovich, who portrayed Ripley in another show I can't recall the name of. But while the three main characters in the film were all memorable, the three here were, to make a pun, all sort of black and white. The only thing I knew Scott from is Band of Brothers but Fanning is always good. So were the characters bland more due to the writing rather than the actors? Maybe Zallian, the creator, director and writer, is just really good at every other element but not so much at drawing characters with depth.

Having said all that I really liked it overall after finishing it last night. I loved the way Caravaggio was integrated into this version. I read a bio of him and he was fascinating and incredibly talented. Funny enough, for most artists at that time in Italy, knife fights and murder were not uncommon. This series make me want to read the novels.

Yes, Ripley in that wig came the closest to having some depth.

And I watched it more than once. He seemed so familiar yet I could not place him.

Funny thing, when I saw Freddie Miles (Mee-lay-es) I thought he looked familiar and wondered if he was Malkovich's son; then, when John finally makes an appearance I thought Ahah! I knew it! and rushed to IMDB to confirm, but alas, no; instead he is the son of Sting (also makes sense).

After meeting Winters after they parachuted in. He was killed by a mine in the show and in real life. IRL his name was John Halls.

Excellent stuff!

Andrew Scott is a mind-bogglingly gifted actor.