The Serpent Is Netflix’s New Visually Arresting Murder Mystery Nadja Sayej
We love a good Netflix crime series no matter what, but not all of them deliver sets as visually appealing as the ones in the streaming service’s latest offering,
The Serpent. The eight-episode limited series follows the real-life story of Charles Sobhraj, a notorious con man who carried out an outlandish crime spree on the Hippie Trail across South Asia in the 1970s.
The twisting tale details how Sobhraj (played by Tahar Rahim) managed to be a master of disguise, slipping through cities and crossing borders, hitting Malaysia, Hong Kong, India, and Thailand, among other countries. The French-born Sobhraj, who has Vietnamese and Indian roots, is a serial killer who was prosecuted in 1976 for murdering 12 tourists he targeted for being hippies. He served 21 years in India, returned to Paris in 1997, then in 2003 returned to Nepal, where he received a life sentence. He is 77 today.