Le indagini di Lolita Lobosco

Lolita Lobosco is brilliant, kindly, empathetic and unbelievably perceptive about people and every detail she looks into. She had no oppositional "boss' like so many detective shows do and the show depicts a city without the hierarchical social order so many others take for granted, e.g., when the superiors tell a detective to go easy on prominent rich people. Bari is enormously egalitarian, democratic and joyful and its total absence of puritan attitudes is a breath of fresh air.

The acting is amazing as well, and the romantic and domestic relations depicted seem very genuine. Each person who appears, whether a suspect or a grocer, a grieving mother or a decent father is among the most skillful actors I've ever seen Ten stars.

This has everything: murder mystery, sunshine, beautiful surroundings, humour and pathos. It's great entertainment and deserving of a far better score than the 6.9 it has.

Each episode is practically the length of a movie and is self contained in its own right; each having its own murder mystery plot whilst carrying an underlying plot continuing throughout the first two series.

The humour that punctuates the seriousness is at times almost English, which is why it works so well to an English audience.

The visual landscape of Bari is stunning in itself and is worked very well into the stories.

Bellisimo!

Lolita Lobosco 6.3 and Imma Tataranni 5.9??? Imma Tataranni is an unconventional and funny series with a really good actress. Lolita Lobosco is a banal series full of stereotypes. Who did rate it? Montalbano/Luca Zingaretti (Luisa Ranieri's husband) :D.

This lighthearted series is done in typical Italian style. The detective and police work take second place to the usual Italian themes of love, food and family. There is the usual older woman, younger man dynamic. A lot of crying and histrionics and constant reference to foods and cooking in the region. The lead character goes to work always dressed fashionably. Every now and again issues of women's rights and their treatment is alluded to in the various episodes. The first season is better than the second as the dialog in the latter seems to be more improvised. Watch it for what it is, light entertainment along the lines of the French counterpart, Candace Renoir!

This Italian series is centred on Deputy Chief Lolita Lobosco who has returned to her home city of Bari, on Italy's Adriatic coast, after many years away. Here she will work with a team of male officers; mostly Antonio Forte, a man who she has known since they went to school together, and Esposito, a younger officer who lives with his elderly mother. Each episode deals with a separate case but running through the background is the question of how Lolita's father, a local smuggler, died. It was reported as a traffic accident but perhaps there was more to it than that. Away from the mystery we see the personal lives of our protagonists.

Like other Italian crime series I've seen this is as much about the characters as the mystery; in fact one can sometimes forget about the crime while watching character's personal lives... this isn't really a problem though as the characters are such fun to watch; they may fit genre clichés but they still manage to be believable. The settings is impressive; I imagine the series will encourage tourism to the city as it looks so good. The crimes aren't too disturbing with no 'unpleasantness' shown and there are plenty of laughs to be had... more than from some so-called comedies. The cast does a fine job bringing the characters to life. Overall I'd definitely recommend this to fans of character led murder-mysteries set in an attractive location.

These comments are based on watching the series in Italian with English subtitles.