Netlfix's The Serpent tells the chilling true story of serial killer Charles Sobhraj (Tahar Rahim), who presented himself as a gem dealer in Bangkok and murdered travelers on the Hippie Trail in Southeast Asia during the '70s. Nadine Gires (Mathilde Warnier) played a pivotal role in helping Dutch diplomat Herman Knippenberg (Billy Howle) build a case against Sobhraj that eventually led to his arrest.
As shown in the series, Gires and her husband, Remi Gires (Grégoire Isvarine), are neighbors of Sobhraj and Marie-Andrée Leclerc (Jenna Coleman) while they are living at Kanit House in Bangkok. Unaware that Sobhraj is a killer, Gires introduces him to potential clients, and more often than not, they end up as his victims. It isn't until Gires helps Dominique Renelleau (Fabien Frankel) escape from Thailand that she discovers how dangerous Sobhraj truly is. Gires and her husband then team up with Knippenberg to find...
As shown in the series, Gires and her husband, Remi Gires (Grégoire Isvarine), are neighbors of Sobhraj and Marie-Andrée Leclerc (Jenna Coleman) while they are living at Kanit House in Bangkok. Unaware that Sobhraj is a killer, Gires introduces him to potential clients, and more often than not, they end up as his victims. It isn't until Gires helps Dominique Renelleau (Fabien Frankel) escape from Thailand that she discovers how dangerous Sobhraj truly is. Gires and her husband then team up with Knippenberg to find...
- 4/5/2021
- by Monica Sisavat
- Popsugar.com
Episode three of The Serpent takes a deep dive into the story of a young traveling Frenchman named Dominique Renelleau (Fabien Frankel), who becomes a captive of Charles Sobhraj (Tahar Rahim) in Thailand and narrowly escapes the serial killer's clutches. Did such a Dominique exist in real life, and if so, did he manage to leave Sobhraj? The answer to both questions is a resounding yes.
In the third episode of the limited series, Sobhraj takes in the traveler and slowly poisons him. Eventually, Renelleau realizes that he's being poisoned after Coco the monkey dies drinking the "medicine" that Sobhraj and his girlfriend Marie-Andrée Leclerc (Jenna Coleman) give him. When he expresses a desire to leave, Sobhraj retrieves Renelleau's passport, which now has a picture of Sobhraj's face on it. Along with other threats, he also reminds Renelleau, who's now short on money on top of being severely ill, that...
In the third episode of the limited series, Sobhraj takes in the traveler and slowly poisons him. Eventually, Renelleau realizes that he's being poisoned after Coco the monkey dies drinking the "medicine" that Sobhraj and his girlfriend Marie-Andrée Leclerc (Jenna Coleman) give him. When he expresses a desire to leave, Sobhraj retrieves Renelleau's passport, which now has a picture of Sobhraj's face on it. Along with other threats, he also reminds Renelleau, who's now short on money on top of being severely ill, that...
- 4/2/2021
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
The case of Charles Sobhraj seems perfect for the age of the true-crime dramatization. Sobhraj, currently incarcerated in Nepal, was a serial murderer in the 1970s, preying especially upon Western travelers on the so-called Hippie Trail in Asia. His notoriety intersects with the anxieties of his era, and his deeds demonstrate an almost boundless capacity for cruelty and compartmentalization: Both of these facts would seem to serve a genre that seeks within stories from the past ways of understanding our times and ourselves.
“The Serpent,” a limited series appearing on Netflix after running on BBC One earlier this year, unfortunately never gets there. Through the writing of Richard Warlow and Toby Finlay, we are given an intriguing — if at times somewhat generic-feeling — look into the world of seekers and believers trying to find themselves between Kathmandu and Bangkok, and we see that world preyed on by an archvillain whose skillfulness...
“The Serpent,” a limited series appearing on Netflix after running on BBC One earlier this year, unfortunately never gets there. Through the writing of Richard Warlow and Toby Finlay, we are given an intriguing — if at times somewhat generic-feeling — look into the world of seekers and believers trying to find themselves between Kathmandu and Bangkok, and we see that world preyed on by an archvillain whose skillfulness...
- 3/30/2021
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
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