Inspector Montalbano is an Italian TV Show, based on the detective novels of Andrea Camilleri.
The return of the original Montalbano…
For nearly a decade, Luca Zingaretti has played the gruff, yet very stylish Police Inspector from Vigata on the Southern coast of Sicily. As always, the viewer can expect complex crime detection, some exotic locations, and some unbelieveably good dining. Montalbano has always believed that nothing needs to be rushed so much that a good lunch on a balcony should be missed. Buon appetito!
Inspector Montalbano Vol 6 (2 disc set) includes 4 episodes – over 7 hours of content.
Subtitled.
Inspector Montalbano Review
"Pasta, glass of vino and time to watch the best one hour and 50 minutes
on TV all week..
Inspector Montalbano is sexist, melodramatic, and decidedly un-PC, but
it's also charming, melodic and intriguing. It's a sort of 70s Sweeney,
Italian style, but with culture, manners and love. Like Regan and Carter in
their male-dominated office, Montalbano, Augello and Fazio solve crimes the old-
fashioned way using instinct and informants. There is not a computer in sight in
the Commisario's office…
And it is love that is at the heart of the murders investigated by Inspector Montalbano, who may look the other way if the criminal has done the wrong thing but for the right moral reasons. He is human after all. Unlike US crime dramas such as CSI, there is no clinical examination of evidence through close up gory shots defining the case in minute detail for a team of detectives who react as professionals and not humans. We rarely see their private lives, or their fears and weaknesses and it's hard to imagine Grissom outside of his office. I often wonder if actually he ever goes home or has a home to go to.
…One thing's for sure, when Inspector Montalbano ends, the sun will stop shining in the cold, dark and grey British Winter for at least a couple of hours each week and the escape found in the Montalbano mysteries will be firmly planted back closer to reality and the gory reality of modern clinical murder investigation cop shows where everything is done by the boring book." crimetimepreview.com