Andrew Scott gets his Saltburn on in new Ripley trailer

Andrew Scott is reinforcing one of cinema’s oldest truisms in his new Netflix series, Ripley: never trust anyone when they say they’re an accountant. The All Of Us Strangers star is returning to his Sherlock-era criminal mastermind roots as Tom Ripley, a grifter who descends into a life of fraud, deception, and murder after he’s hired by a wealthy man to return his debaucherous son home from Italy.

If this setup sounds familiar, there’s a pretty good reason for that. Ripley is yet another adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s popular Tom Ripley novels, which also inspired 1999's The Talented Mr. Ripley, starring Matt Damon. And, if you haven’t seen that film and still feel a little bit of déjà vu, Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn employs a similar conceit in its tale of a lower-class obsessive slowly worming his way into the lives and milieu of a wealthy family. The new, black-and-white, 1960s-set series seems far too classy for a “Murder On The Dancefloor”-esque victory scene, but there is a shot of Scott near a bathtub, so… anything is possible.

Ripley’s trailer sees Scott arrive at Dickie Greenleaf’s (Johnny Flynn) beautiful house, wherein he immediately starts impersonating the lifestyle and affect of the aristocrats around him. While the Sherlock alum has primarily been playing good, likable characters for a while now (we miss you, hot priest from Fleabag!), he’s still perfectly suited for the sinister, and it’s fun to see him flex those chops here.

All eight episodes of the series were written and directed by Steven Zaillian, co-creator of HBO’s The Night Of and writer of Schindler’s List, The Irishman, Moneyball, and more. The show also stars Dakota Fanning, Eliot Sumner, Maurizio Lombardi, Margherita Buy, and John Malkovich.

Ripley premieres April 4 on Netflix.