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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Serpent is a limited series developed by Mammoth Screen and commissioned by the BBC. It follows the life and crimes, and the eventual capture, of the French serial killer and fraudster Charles Sobhraj (Tahar Rahim) and his accomplice Marie Andrée Leclerc (Jenna Coleman) as they are pursued by a mild-mannered Dutch diplomat, Herman Knippenberg (Billy Howle) . It was originally released on BBC One on January 1, 2021 before streaming on Netflix in April of 2021.
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 How Dominique met Sobhraj and later escaped from him is entirely true. However, there was another Frenchman who was Adapted Out of the series who was in the same position as Dominique, and escaped with him.
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 Adaptational Attractiveness: To be expected with any piece of media drawing from real life events and people. While the real-life Charles Sobhraj was described as handsome in his younger years, he's played by the more classically handsome Tahar Rahim. Despite this, the majority of the actors do closely resemble their real-life counterparts.
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 Artistic License – History: While the events depicted in the series are largely accurate, the order in which they took place was altered for the plot. According to the lead writer, several aspects of Charles Sobhraj's schemes had to be downplayed because the creators felt the audience wouldn't believe they actually took place. Angela Kane felt upon viewing the final product that the series had downplayed her role in the investigation, feeling it had depicted her as "the dutiful diplomat's wife" and not one of the people actively pursuing Sobhraj and his accomplices.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })
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 In Real Life, it's believed that many of Charles' killed victims were in fact participants in many of his crimes and were murdered for eventually threatening to expose him. In the series the victims are all murdered either for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or for seeing something that they shouldn't have seen. This was likely done out of respect for the families of the victims, and due to exact details being unknown.
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