--- description: The British thriller casts Erin Doherty (Princess Anne in 'The Crown') as an abject young woman who infiltrates her dead friend's world. title: Amazon's 'Chloe' Is a Riveting Twist on the Scammer Show image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8dc05c37a2cd4a4b/698a331901168217af982039/Chloe_101_Erin_Doherty_as_Becky_Green_thumb.jpeg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Television](/tag/television/) ## Television Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Amazon's Psychological Thriller _Chloe_ Is a Riveting Twist on the Scammer Show  by [Judy Berman](/author/judy-berman/)  ## Judy Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close TV Critic Jun 24, 2022 6:46 PM CUT  Erin Doherty in 'Chloe' Erin Doherty in 'Chloe'Luke Varley/Banijay Rights Limited  by [Judy Berman](/author/judy-berman/)  ## Judy Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close TV Critic Jun 24, 2022 6:46 PM CUT Becky Green doesn’t want to be Becky Green anymore. And who could blame her? The protagonist of _Chloe,_ now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, is a study in abjection. Played with protean inscrutability by Erin Doherty ([_The Crown_](https://time.com/4542526/the-crown-netflix-queen-elizabeth-history/ "undefined")’s Princess Anne), Becky works a demeaning temp job and lives in a shabby apartment with a mother (Lisa Palfrey) who’s sinking into early-onset dementia. Social media is her escape. She scrolls endlessly through posts by a childhood friend, Chloe Fairbourne (Poppy Gilbert), who lives a glamorous life surrounded by her ascendant-politician husband (Billy Howle) and a tight clique of photogenic bourgeois-bohemian pals. Then Chloe dies, in an apparent suicide, and Becky discovers that one of the last things her estranged pal did was try to call. Using internet research to fake her way into fancy events, Becky reinvents herself as Sasha Miles, an art-world type fresh off a stint in Tokyo, and infiltrates her late friend’s inner circle. In this perfectly paced psychological thriller, all it takes to blend in is a posh accent, keen social media stalking skills, and a lot of nerve. [_Sign up for More to the Story_](https://ti.me/3vGrkXz "undefined"), _TIME’s weekly entertainment newsletter, to get the context you need for the pop culture you love._ Will Becky get found out? The suspense generated by that question alone would be enough to propel viewers through the show’s six tightly edited episodes. What elevates _Chloe_ above the typical prestige mystery is the care it takes in concealing not just the events of the title character’s final night on earth, but also Becky’s own motives. Is she investigating Chloe’s death, or is she indulging a long-running fantasy of becoming Chloe? Is she a heartless opportunist, or is she simply a broken person seeking justice in the only way she knows how? The story takes some genuinely unexpected, yet never ridiculous, turns, each one grounded in Becky’s evolving relationships with Howle’s Elliot, Chloe’s queen-bee best friend Livia (Pippa Bennett-Warner), and their musician buddy Richard (Jack Farthing), who seems to be grieving more intensely than anyone. The result is an unusually human grifter story. Instead of diving into the trite subject of sociopathic behavior, like [_Inventing Anna_](https://time.com/6147088/inventing-anna-true-story/ "undefined") or [_Dirty John_](https://time.com/5458703/dirty-john-tv-review/ "undefined"), _Chloe_ finds depth, authenticity, and even compassion in its profile of a scammer. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6190101/chloe-review-amazon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6190101/chloe-review-amazon/"},"headline":"Amazon's Psychological Thriller Chloe Is a Riveting Twist on the Scammer Show","datePublished":"2022-06-24T18:46:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T14:24:55.580Z","description":"In this perfectly paced thriller, all it takes to blend in is a posh accent, keen social media stalking skills, and a lot of nerve","url":"https://time.com/6190101/chloe-review-amazon/","keywords":["Television","review","culturepod"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8dc05c37a2cd4a4b/698a331901168217af982039/Chloe_101_Erin_Doherty_as_Becky_Green_thumb.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Judy Berman","jobTitle":"TV Critic","url":"https://time.com/author/judy-berman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8dc05c37a2cd4a4b/698a331901168217af982039/Chloe_101_Erin_Doherty_as_Becky_Green_thumb.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Chloe","caption":"Chloe","creditText":"Luke Varley/Banijay Rights Limited","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/television/","name":"Television"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6190101/chloe-review-amazon/","name":"Amazon's Psychological Thriller Chloe Is a Riveting Twist on the Scammer Show"}}]}] ```