La mafia uccide solo d'estate

'Mafia Only Kills in Summer' tells the story of Sicily circa 1980 by interweaving the lives of a prototypical Italian family with the real leaders of the Cosa Nostra and the heroes they killed. It's alternately charming, funny, and full of righteous anger; and it gets the balance just right, showing how the Mafia permeated through civil society.. While aspects of the humour are somewhat stereotypical, they go down well anyway because of the sheer heart of the portrayals. A favourite moment of mine is when the central protagonist, a boy on the brink of adolescence and obsessed with the Mafia, is taken by his parents to a psychologist, and in the Rorsach blots he is presented with sees alternately breasts, and (Prime Minister) Andreotti meeting with a Mafioso. Two series have been made to date; it's creator wants take the story through to the 1990s, and I hope he gets the chance to do so.

We have been watching this during the past month, and we both agree it's been our most enjoyable nightly binge since we watched the Swedish Wallendar series. Of course, everyone has different interests and tastes, and this is subtitled but, especially because we like Sicily so much, this has captured our attention. Really well conceived and written, humanized, both funny and serious, merging Sicily's modern history with fictionalized individual experiences living there, well acted even by the children, full of entertaining empathetic characters, devotedly anti-Mafia, inspiring..

I have not seen the film with the same name, so I have no opportunity to compare, but the Series captivated me from the 1st episode. Wonderful and apparently realistic atmosphere (with real events and real persons included), skillful mix of comedy and tragedy, great performances (Francesco Scianna as Massimo and Edoardo Buscetta as Salvatore Giammarresi excelling others a bit)... And pleasantly and surprisingly free family relations in a Catholic country, with reference to love and growing pains. With 2 generations constantly visible, it should be both interesting to parents and children, with apparent explanation what was going on in Sicily in the late 70ies / early 80ies.

Although the Season 2 is somewhat less interesting / more protracted than Season 1, yet 9 points from me, well done! And again, as after watching Montalbano series, I am very keen on visiting Sicily, still never been there.

This was the best tv series I've watched I've never loved a cast more. I felt invested in every one of them. It's heartbreaking and joyful and jarring all at the same time.

One of the best Italian series! How can Rai cancel a series like that and make series like Lolita Lobosco, Macari or Leonardo?