Assane Diop is a gentleman thief, just like his idol, the character born from Maurice Leblanc’s genius, Arsène Lupin. In this highly successful Netflix TV series, literature is far more than a hobby or passion; it serves as inspiration, motivation, and even an indispensable manual for carrying out the impossible. If, in Lupin, you appreciated how the brilliant protagonist allows a book to guide him, then you are in the right place: we have selected for you a few other titles centered on the same theme that, without a doubt, you would enjoy.
TV Series on the link between crime and literature like Lupin: Here are the ones we recommend
- You
- Castle
- The Following
You
Joe Goldberg is a bookseller from New York who appears harmless, thanks to his neat appearance and polite manners. Yet the truth is different: he is a stalker and a serial manipulator. When he falls for a girl, he develops a genuine—and dangerously obsessive—fixation on her. To win her over, besides spying on her in real life and via social media, he uses his knowledge of literature to craft the image of the perfect lover. You is a TV series from 2018 featuring Penn Badgley in a role that continually draws on the classics of literature he loves to justify the unjustifiable. Five seasons and 50 episodes, available on Netflix.
Castle
Richard Castle is a renowned crime writer who finds himself collaborating with a detective, Kate Beckett, when a serial killer begins to meticulously replicate the murders described in his novels. Castle is called upon to leverage his deep understanding of the characters and plots born from his genius to trap the criminal well in advance. Castle is a 2009 TV series where, as in Lupin, narrative and crimes intertwine until they blur into one. Eight seasons and 173 episodes, available on Disney+.
The Following
Joe Carroll is a university English literature professor with an obsession with Edgar Allan Poe. Joe uses his charisma and knowledge to found an online cult of serial killers who are willing to kill by the letter according to the gothic tales of the famed writer. An FBI agent, Ryan Hardy, is chasing him, and to catch him he begins decoding Poe’s works. The Following is a 2013 TV series featuring James Purefoy and Kevin Bacon where the bond between the antagonist—a genius of evil—and the fanatical devotion to a literary idol is pushed to the extreme. Three seasons and 45 episodes, available on Tim Vision.
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