‘Scarpetta’ reviews: What are people saying about Nicole Kidman’s new show?

Speaking of technology, there is, apparently, a whole new subplot that features Ariana De Bose’s Lucy having a relationship with an AI chatbot built to imitate her dead wife. Timely, yes. Relevant? Reviewers aren’t so sure.

On that note, what are the reviewers and, of course, the fans saying about the new show?

Well, The Guardian called it a “trashy drama” that feels “weird” and disjointed, criticising the shoehorned in plotlines about AI that are nowhere to be found in the books. Despite the performances, which are, apparently phenomenal, the thing ultimately falls apart. As reviewer Hannah J. Davies puts it, “they alone cannot save Scarpetta.”

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“Scarpetta is undoubtedly the apex of Prestige Trash,” she concludes. “Time was, a show with this many big names would have had to have been half decent – now it’s fine to merely add on more and more silliness, stretching what could have been a tight four-parter into eight increasingly weird episodes.”

The Hollywood Reporter also praised the performances, but noted that Kidman is actually pretty strange casting. Kidman, “an unquestionably versatile actress” seems wholly out of place as the “brassy Italian-American character whom I pictured as more of an Edie Falco type,” writes Daniel Fienberg.

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