Sorelle

This Telenovela has all the trademarks of a RAI production! All the female actors wear wigs with long flowing manes of hair that they can toss and flick when they move their heads seductively. The kids are all angelic looking, but also with more wigs that are often much bigger than their heads. The youngest child in the series wears a wig that resembles the thatch cover for a small sized hut! As others have pointed out, the story is filled with tears! Everyone cries in almost every scene. There is excessive use of flashbacks, which become just a distraction. One can predict the moment the flashback is coming as the warning sign is dramatic music, then the actor stares into space, as if starting a movie reel. The backdrop for the story is the usual mountain village, filled with crumbling stone houses, that appear to be on the verge of collapsing.

The story could have been told in about 4 episodes, but just drags on endlessly as if to fill an allotted number of episodes. Because it is a second tier European series, Walter Presents, a streaming platform that specializes in rebroadcasting these, is just right for this.

The episodes are long, around 90 minutes, but the show still held my attention. Beautifully paced and shot in a very scenic location the story was compelling and with lots of twists and turns. Anna Valle as the lead is not only beautiful, but is a very fine actress who, in my view, was perfect in her role. Whilst it is a "who done it" the interactions between people and the focus on what death can do to a family, accentuated by some very fine acting, gave me a connection with the main characters and had me caring and involved. I highly recommend, but realise it is not a "mass market show" and not for all.

Is it just me, or do the Italians have an intrinsic disability to come up with good plots? Nothing seems natural. Everything comes across like it's being read from a script with no feeling... except the tears, tears, and more soppy tears. I just. Painfully, finished part 2. Is it really going anywhere? Or is the whole idea of the plot to make everyone wish they'd never started watching it to begin with. Italy is in bad need of some good writers.

Update: I had to see how it ended. And it ended as I thought. I had to constantly hop scotch through the last two episodes just to be able to get to the ending. I couldn't have stood to watch every minute. It was just curiosity that got me to the end. Please don't waste your time with this one. It's the soppiest, most depressing, tear-filled drama I've ever watched.