Imma Tataranni: Deputy Prosecutor

This suffered from what is inserted into so many Italian crime series, namely attempts at humour that are off the mark and actually not funny. They are grating and annoying. For goodness sake, is it meant to be hilarious when the new Chief Prosecutor gets into a lift with his soon-to-be deputy Imma and recounts to her, not knowing who she is, that his number two has a reputation as a shrew and an eccentric? Are the scenes at the beach meant to be amusing when she was trying to catch hold of evidence of a crime and was thought, instead, by her husband and mother-in-law to be drowning, thus losing her the evidence?

These episodes are an hour and three quarters long. I wasn't going to waste that much of my life on even one of them. I switched off after about forty five minutes when I realised that this programme wasn't going anywhere I wanted to arrive at.

There are far better things to watch. I shan't be revisiting the world of the Deputy Prosecutor.