Scarpetta
Created by Elizabeth Sarnoff
Renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to her position as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner, where she investigates a haunting murder with eerie reminders from her first big case decades ago. In 1998, Scarpetta works alongside Detective Pete Marino and FBI Agent Benton Wesley as they investigate a series of brutal stranglings. Based on the best-selling novels by Patricia Cornwell. From TMDB
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Metacritic review breakdown (unweighted) For the first season, the series holds a 57% approval rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 67 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "A little messy and occasionally all over the place, Scarpetta still makes for a fun watch thanks to its stacked cast and a mystery that's just compelling enough to keep viewers digging for more." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 54 out of 100 based on 24 critics, indicating "mixed or average". According to Nielsen's latest data, measuring only U.S. views on TV sets, the first season was placed #4 and #6 in the original series and overall chart during the…
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60 of 235 · most liked firstIs the Scarpetta series on Prime the first Cornwell adaptation? Admittedly stopped reading her books a very long time ago, but my memory is failing me.
neutral · AI labelView post →I tried to watch Scarpetta, a new mystery series starring Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis. Two of my favorite actresses being absolutely awful to each other and everyone around them. Ugh. Not for me. Back to Poirot.
negative · AI labelView post →#NowWatching Scarpetta 📺🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →i need to know who is holding Nicole Kidman hostage and making her do these dreadful tv shows. prime video's SCARPETTA is a real low point imo:
negative · AI labelView post →Finally watched the first episode of Scarpetta after having read the entire series as a teen. The thing that I recognized from the TV show that I remember from the series is… she solves crimes and cuts open bodies. I think that’s it.
neutral · AI labelView post →THIS. We watched Scarpetta with ads. A fantastic tv show and the ads were placed at the worst possible moment in terms of storytelling and tension every. single. time. Every time. AND every advert was for washing powder, over and over again.
positive · AI labelView post →Checked out the Kay Scarpetta TV show and if I had a nickel for every show where Jamie Lee Curtis plays an Italian mom who ruins family dinners I'd etc.
neutral · AI labelView post →Scarpetta, the very latest Nicole Kidman murder mystery limited series, lacks the expensive real estate and luxe ensembles I usually expect from a Nicole Kidman murder mystery limited series, but it does feature Nicole Kidman bedeviled by both mystery and Jamie Lee Curtis. I guess that's something.
neutral · AI labelView post →Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis were very chummy at the #Scarpetta premiere, perhaps bonding over their terrible dress choices tomandlorenzo.com/2026/03/nico...
neutral · AI labelView post →Among mononymous adapted Amazon protagonists, Amazon's "Scarpetta" is better than "Cross" (as a series, though nothing in it is as good as Aldis Hodge) and worse than "Bosch" and "Reacher." Shrug. Some dedicated fans of the books will be pissed off by some stuff.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve been intrigued by Patricia Cornwell’s books for ages. Her posts about the TV series Scarpetta on Amazon Prime and a Goodreads Challenge finally pushed me to read the first book, Postmortem. It was a perfect fit for my interests as a serial murder mystery read like a true crime novel. #booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →In my last column I accused Nicole Kidman of hot-washing the role of Scarpetta in the new Patricia Cornwell series, so it’s worth saying that in Margo’s Got Money Troubles she’s perfect. Still hot, but makes sense in the world of the show.
neutral · AI labelView post →The most entertaining part of the Scarpetta show is watching Jamie Lee Curtis breast boobily into every room. I've never seen anyone personify that description better.
neutral · AI labelView post →Scarpetta is the #1 TV series in Canada
neutral · AI labelView post →Decided to finally read the entire Scarpetta Series (29 books) in order. Finished Postmortem (Book 1) today. Next up: Body of Evidence (Book 2).
neutral · AI labelView post →Today’s book is book 3 in a series I have been reading- the Kay Scarpetta series. All that remains is the title. Book #1 of the year since my dissertation is done! #pukapuka
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun fact: the Kay Scarpetta series was written by Patricia Cornwell, who before her literary success and divorce was the wife of a minister at my childhood church. (I only met her once. It was when I was in college.) My mom hhhhhhated her and always referred to her "that stone-cold bitch."
neutral · AI labelView post → The Pitt S2, It is E.R.2.0 and is excellent if you are into that sort of thing.  Paradise S2, this season is a lot better than S1, though the show does undermine itself pretty regularly. Sterling Brown is excellent as always.  Scarpetta, this show is about a…
neutral · AI labelView post →Scarpetta is the #1 TV series in Canada
neutral · AI labelView post →#Scarpetta star Nicole Kidman came to the Tonight Show in a rocker chick top and a secretary skirt tomandlorenzo.com/2026/03/nico...
neutral · AI labelView post →I refuse to watch the Scarpetta series. I always imagined her looking like Patricia Cornwall. They should’ve cast Jamie Lee Curtis as Kay 20 years ago.
negative · AI labelView post →It starts Tues or Weds. But I saw a preview and wasn't feeling it. AT. ALL. And I've wanted a Scarpetta series forever.
negative · AI labelView post →💙 📚 #booksky My favorite books are: Cornwell, Patricia: The Scarpetta series In another life, I will return as a forensics pathologist
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched (the first episode of) Scarpetta so you don't have to. 🧪
negative · AI labelView post →I don’t know if I’m going to watch the new Scarpetta show but I read all the existing books a bunch in the 90s (up until the third person narration one I think?) and it was always funny to me how she was a low key celeb, like who knows the chief medical examiner of their state by name or by sight
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm really glad I'm not the only one who thought Benton Wesley was a Black man in the Scarpetta books. And. This series is another reminder that when I really get into a book series, I'll always be disappointed when it's turned into a tv series. Outlander, looking at you.
negative · AI labelView post →Scarpetta review – this Nicole Kidman show is a dire mess … with an AI chatbot as a main character www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
neutral · AI labelView post →How did I miss there is a new Scarpetta series on Amazon with Nicole Kidman and Jaime Lee Curtis
neutral · AI labelView post →Didn't think that I could stomach the Kay Scarpetta series, but it's not as graphic as I feared. It's nice reading about cases from forensic technology over two decades ago.
neutral · AI labelView post →Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta series follows several criminal cases that this medical examiner is involved in. Very good.
neutral · AI labelView post →(Audio) book 33 of 2026 #UnnaturalDeath by #PatriciaCornwell the series is getting better again after a few books I didn’t like as much tbh. #Scarpetta #BookSky
positive · AI labelView post →True Crime: A Memoir by Patricia Cornwell is a book on my list as I have read her books ever since she started The Scarpetta series. Using investigative medical forensics to solve crimes has always been an interest of mine. #Books #Reading #Memoir #PatriciaCornwell www.amazon.ca/True-Crime-M...
neutral · AI labelView post →Scarpetta is not a good tv show. In case you were interested. Am I going to finish watching it? Yes. But I am a garbage human.
negative · AI labelView post →Watched the new series #Scarpetta over past four nights n Prime I’ll save you all the bother: it’s shite
negative · AI labelView post →I read the Scarpetta series but I have a hard rule: I don’t give my money to billionaires like Bezos to bankroll the destruction of our country. No Prime, No Amazon.
neutral · AI labelView post →Nicole Kidman as Dr. Kay Scarpetta! I started reading this Patricia Cornwell series when I was 13. I can't believe it is a show now and has the amazing Jamie Lee Curtis too! 😍 #booksky #tvsky #amazonprime youtu.be/RSpvGC0_XLM?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Amazon is making a show of the truly terrible Kay Scarpetta book series starring Nicole Kidman and Simon Baker in some kind of bad accent Olympics. The books were surprisingly racist and creepy about the MC's niece (and the author's backstory is... something) So many bad choices is this a tax thing?
negative · AI labelView post →Just wrapped up Patricia Cornwell’s Predator (#14 in the Kay Scarpetta series) and… ugh. It felt like a chore. Does anyone else feel the series dip around books 13/14? I need someone to convince me it’s worth sticking with the series. Does it pick back up? 📖📚 #booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell. The first in the Kay Scarpetta series. I’ve read every book in this series so far, but nothing can beat the magic and nostalgia of the first.
neutral · AI labelView post →I can't believe they've finally made a Kay Scarpetta TV adaptation, thirty years after peak era for the book series, starring NICOLE KIDMAN and Jamie Lee Curtis and a bunch of other famous people
neutral · AI labelView post →Just found out about Scarpetta, and it’s just the series I needed. Plus, as Jamie Lee Curtis is in it, all gets even better. #moviesky #filmskya
positive · AI labelView post →Having read almost the entire Patricia Cornwall series, I’m having a hard time 😭😭 #Scarpetta
neutral · AI labelView post →Everytime they show Lucy talking to this dead AI wife of hers I want to fast forward. #Scarpetta
negative · AI labelView post →While the Scarpetta series didn't hit for us, the new Young Sherlock series from Guy Richie did. Enjoying it very much.
negative · AI labelView post →Prime Video dropped all eight episodes of Scarpetta on Wednesday, and Alexandria residents have a compelling reason to tune in: Our city is the beating heart of the show. www.alexandriabrief.com/nicole-kidma...
neutral · AI labelView post →Jamie Lee Curtis is really the star of the show. She really showed up. The actress playing young Scarpetta is excellent too.
neutral · AI labelView post →TV Talk: TV writers show their prescience again as ICE agents enter #ThePitt tonight, wreak havoc + new @PrimeVideo series #scarpetta reviewed, via @triblive.bsky.social triblive.com/aande/movies...
neutral · AI labelView post →LOVE the #Scarpetta books. Didn't know there was a series. Thanks!
neutral · AI labelView post →(Audio) book 5 of 2026 #FleshAndBlood by #PatriciaCornwell book 22 of the #Scarpetta series #Booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →There are 3 ongoing book franchises my mom has loyally read since the early '90s: Cornwell's Scarpetta series, Patterson's Alex Cross series, & Sandford's Prey series. They've now recently all been adapted into TV, making my mom the real winner here, but congrats to Jensen, too😜
neutral · AI labelView post →(Audio) book 28 of 2026 #Autsopy by @patriciacornwell.bsky.social. Book 25 of the #Scarpetta series. The older books were so nostalgic and now it’s weird that we are talking about Covid and AI! #BookSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Wise Words ✍️ "The world is full of people who mean no harm and cause a great deal of it." - Patricia Cornwell, American crime writer & author of novel series featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, born this day 1956 #authors #birthdays #books #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #amwriting
neutral · AI labelView post →Ooh I’ve read one Scarpetta book- the author is a lesbian and they’re murder mysteries. Nicole Kidman just played her in a show adaptation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarpet...
neutral · AI labelView post →I know I’m late with this take but I just finished watching #Scarpetta — watched 3.5 eps then stopped cus I wasn’t liking it, then decided to give the rest of the season a go. I should’ve followed my 1st instinct. It’s hard to make a show with NO likable characters and a bad plot, but they did it!
negative · AI labelView post →(Audio) book 12 of 2026 #DepravedHeart by #PatriciaCornwell book 23 of the #Scarpetta series #Booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →Starting the new Scarpetta series w/ Nicole Kidman & Jamie Lee Curtis tonight.
neutral · AI labelView post →GN CU2MAM4 ☕ FYI a little good news, Simon Baker (The Mentalist) has a new show coming March 11th on Prime called Scarpetta. Get some sleep I don't think Iran can retaliate against us that quickly. #ImpeachTrump
neutral · AI labelView post →I absolutely loved the books about Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta and so I am very much looking forward to watching this new series. share.google/7HtHnX1kDATq...
positive · AI labelView post →I love Patricia Cornwell's Scarpetta book series. But Nicole Kidman is no Scarpetta. Just like Tom Cruise is no Jack Reacher. #writingcommunity #writers #books
neutral · AI labelView post →First look at Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis in 'Scarpetta,' based on Patricia Cornwell's bestselling Kay Scarpetta book series. The series premieres March 11th on Prime Video. [📷 by Connie Chornuk/Prime Video] #Scarpetta
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