There's a brilliant crane shot in the first episode which follows the progress of a car with a bomb in it - this may have been an homage to Touch of Evil. Ivan Casalgrandi is the DP.
Genna has started to build an airport - where the fuck did he get the money from? (from the dealing in Secondigliano.) Good story of farmer holding out to sell land - turns out he's buried poison which is why he's not selling, poison that may be killing his wife. Genna and Azzurra travel to London to buy a £20m company - where the fuck etc. - and almost get scammed by Louise Brearly. Lovely looking suite in the St Pancras Renaissance.
He's also reconnected with his uncle Don Levante, who has powerful Sicily connections, brokers a peace between the clans and leaves Patri' in charge of Secondigliano. She's doing all right, having to discipline two punks, but a huge drug delivery is intercepted by the police. She's also having a thing with Levante son Luciano Giugliano. Her No. 2 Nicola (Riccardo Ciccarelli) finds out it's the Levante gang, is killed.
In parallel everything's falling apart for Blue Blood Enzo. His No.2 Valerio (Loris de Luna) - the one who can speak 'proper Italian' - is killed and there's an internal power struggle, but he does get the nasty Capaccio brother Carlo Caracciolo to admit to Patri' that her new husband Michaelangelo is 'screwing' her. (The other Capaccio brother, the one with the glasses, is the thinker. He's Andrea di Maria.)
Um. OK, The plotting does I think get rather murky from now on. Rather than just telling Patri the Levantes have put bombs under her premises, her new husband tells the police instead and they arrive when a consignment has been delivered - it would have been more straightforward just to tell her because now she's in prison, the judges are after her to betray Genna, and we're actually not sure if she does or not. Genna decides to get involved all over again, for no clear reason, with the involvement of someone we don't know, Mistral. Enzo tries a triple hit on the Levantes, manages to fuck up all three. Genna is more successful killing mom and pop, but you would have thought he would have got the other two brothers as well (particularly as they've all just met up together). Sprung from prison, Patri seems happy to go off with the double-crossing Michaelangelo, which seems to beggar belief, but Genna kills them both. Then goes into hiding in this tiny little cell?? WTF??
So although a lot happened, it wasn't the great series ending it should have been, something of a messy anti-climax.
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Talking of proper Italian, it's interesting how everything's been cropped. Thus brother is 'fra', crazy is 'pazz', everything's good is 'Tutt' a post' '. 'Jamme / Jamm Ja' is very specific to the region - 'let's go', which we've come across before.
This was broadcast in Italy from March 2019, but the film L'Immortal wasn't shown there until December.
Francesco Comencini has the 'supervizione artistica' credit and Marco D'Amore directed two.
Not sure how they managed to do all the filming in Forcella, though on film it looks cleaner than in real life. Good Guardian article here about the infamous Le Vele apartment blocks in Scampia.
The tireless Patrizio Marone edited all episodes again.
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