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SPOILERS GALORE! Richard Armitage has, in relatively recent years, become leading man material thanks largely to star turns on Netflix and other streaming services. In the past decade or so, he has often been cast as a solid, valiant seeker of truth, justice and missing loved ones; it's easy to forget that he once played terrifying psychopath Francis Dollarhyde on NBC's Hannibal . (That was back in the days when NBC--and other networks-- actually had the cojones to air a series like Hannibal ). Was there always that hint of depravity lurking just behind his eyes? That is the question I asked myself during his latest Netflix outing, Obsession , based on Josephine Hart's 1991 novel, Damage . Originally adapted for the big screen by French filmmaker Louis Malle in 1992, the title has been changed but much else remains the same. Heavy-hitters Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche were cast as the ill-famed lovers in Malle's version, with Miranda Richardson and Rupert Graves o...