Dhis shoulders as he watches Matera. Thus, in a story on Instagram, Vanessa Scalera greeted Imma Tataranni. A silent farewell to the city skyline which, together with the character of the deputy prosecutor, made it extremely popular. A beneficial effect for both of us, with the city of stones becoming a destination for return tourism very well received by the localseven if at times with characteristics from overtourism. And she, Scalera, which moved easily from the five-season series to the cinemasuddenly discovery (these days he is in the room with The common good – directed and starring Rocco Papaleo, in the cast of Imma 5).
While elsewhere they explode out of nowhere they are above all gay men playing gay or straight men playing gay (you see Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menéndez and, precisely, Heated rivalry), in Italy, the boom is almost exclusively the prerogative of investigators, commissioners and deputy commissioners. Each of literary derivation and with its obvious peculiarities. In this Olympus of investigations, Imma Tataranni, messy in her dress and direct, as intelligent as she is clumsy in managing her feelings, has conquered a special place since her debut.
Imma Tataranniwe will miss you: even with this lickable series finale
Compared to Lolita Lobosco and her 12cm heelsand with a certain provocativeness, Imma (real name Immacolata) is an alternative character, a punk. Walking with determined strides on wide heels, the mass of curly hair all in tension, she was at once a familiar figure and one to watch from a distance. To be weighed. As did all those who were around her, sometimes tired of making inroads into the prosecutor’s shady personality. From her husband Pietro to her daughter Valentina. From Diana to Mary.
As a punk figure in a provincial reality, at a certain point Tataranni seemed to overwhelm everything in the name of her happiness with Calogiuri. An endless push and pull with consummation which, even if it didn’t end with a two-man escape, still left several victims on the field. Pietro, from whom she separated and almost divorced. Valentina, who drops out of university to embrace a community of raw foodists (to the great horror of her maternal grandmother).
She entered into a deep crisis, so much so that she even attempted the disastrous path of the hairdresser, in the end Imma decides to be seriously punk: Do application for chief prosecutor in Milan. Away from the madding crowd, from the house put up for sale, from the love that should have been as Battisti sang in My provincial lovethat is «Forward in tandem/You in front, me in back/over hills, through farmhouses, arguing/Forward like this».
Vanessa Scalera looks at the Matera of “Imma Tataranni”. (@scalera_vanessa)
A beginning that would have resembled a supernova explosion, every man for himself shooting in a different direction. Because sometimes things don’t go, they don’t work, they don’t get fixed, and never mind. Instead, a little hastily and a little not, the series has decided for supreme conciliation. The family finds its balance even if Imma has finally become the prosecutor of Milan, and therefore has to leave. And in Milan he will have to face the greatest difficulty of his life: the disapproving looks on her looks. Other than murders to solve, the usual Metaponto, Maria the nosy: compared to the fashionista mafia of tone on tone they are trifles of little importance.
But this Tataranni in the north it won’t be donejust a hint of Po Valley fog thanks to the smoke from a burnt cake and goodbye to the series. All the characters are back in their places, a little different but always in the Matera nativity scene, except for the commuter Tataranni. But thanks for the chills of one possible personal refoundationImma, doubts and dizziness cured like us on the sofa. We’ll see you again pleasantly.
