Imma Tataranni: Vanessa Scalera queen of ratings and looks

Un Monday which brought together 4 million and 371 thousand spectators. And who knows how many there will be for the final episode of Imma Tataranni 3broadcast next Monday at 9.30pm on Rai 1. The affection for Vanessa Scalera and the character of the Deputy Prosecutor (freely taken from books by Mariolina Fortuna) is large and widespread, and represents one of the most successful successes of television translation.

If in fact the crime developments of the plots they are sweet walks between interrogations and intuitionswhat holds everything together is the strength of Imma-Scalera as Mariolina describes it on the back covers. A somewhat nice but also unpleasant woman. She is hateful at times. Definitely uncomfortable, shameless and surprising.

Imma Tatarannithe wonder of disorienting looks

Also dark and disillusioned, and vindictivewe add (in the first episode of this third season she points the finger at those who bullied her at school, publicly; and it would be nice if it always happened). One meter tall and a spit (always Mariolina), Imma has frizzy hair and unlikely tastes in clothing: golden, snake style, preferably with a 12cm heel on your feet.

From paper to TV, the Deputy Prosecutor has finally become that force of colors and patterns through the work of Paola Marchesin – long-time costume designer, student of Piero Tosi and twice nominated for the Nastri D’argento. Who gave an irresistible and dazzling shape to the “alien in Matera”., a mix of animal prints, scarves and wild west belts perfect for the neutral background of the stones. A style that causes headaches, especially in the prosecutor’s office. And even outside, for the mother, for the mother-in-law, for the friends, for all possible culprits whose jaw drops after she officially introduces herself.

But style is substancealways, and Imma’s tacky one wouldn’t work without an equally energetic personality. Marchesin says: «Vanessa Scalera’s physicality and temperament make the difference! What I put on her is functional to the character. If I didn’t have the great personality of an actress, everything would have been fake! These are words of 2021, but they still apply, obviously. And they also testify to Vanessa’s greatness as an actress, the opposite of Imma in every trait, flaw and arrogance.

In this regard, in the miraculous meeting between dress and character that occurs in an actor, Kim Cattrall comes to mind compared to Samantha Jones’s Sex and the city. Just as Kim has always declared that she is the opposite of the all-sex pièrre. And how she succeeded, also with the selection of dresses by Patricia Field, to find the truth of this woman. The same goes for Scalera. At the recent season three press conference you talked about how you work closely with the costume department. How he tells Paola to push even more on Tataranni’s antics.

Ok, in fact, for method acting, dramaturgical adherence, all very respectable things, but long live the fun of letting yourself go when there is the luxury of solid, almost unassailable success. And of a widespread network of fans awaiting Imma’s looks.

«Every time Tataranni dresses a stylist dies»

This phrase posted by a user on social media is hilarious (which is a format for which by replacing the subject it can be applied to any topic). But he doesn’t tell the whole truth. Sometimes the combinations of poor Imma they are indeed an eyesore, a dive into the closet with your eyes closed, are sometimes so successful that they deserve a place in your mobile phone’s memory. She was suffering from a sudden shortage of look ideas.

For example, in the memory of the series it remains very relevant the case of the snake trench coat with cow-spots. Unusual, but far from tacky; Vanessa’s slender physique certainly helps to carry it. Combined with a pair of black boots it is one of the most successful total looks of the entire series. Also historic is the yellow coat that seems to fade into green, the pink trench coat, the dress with halter neckline and geometric pattern.

This season – only four episodes, it is incomprehensible that no one demonstrated in front of Rai – Many people liked the teddy bear coatsthe shirt with pop writing Powthe yellow zebra and tartan mix of a day in the prosecutor’s office, the carbon free green mesh bag (which makes a lot of food cards under the Nazi occupation).

Does it seem like little to you? But parity in the world of style TV icons is still far away. When Paola Barale was the queen of the weekend with Happy Sundaythe Barale scarves he wore around his neck were sold on every corner: where are the baskets with Imma Tataranni’s scarves?

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