A close first floor on Nicole Kidman’s eye, with the capillaries of the iris well evident and outlined to make vividly the little sleep of the protagonist Kay Scarpetta, is an emblematic picture of the TV series in 8 episodes all (ahimè) coming on Prime Video on March 11. The attention to detail is one of the features of this TV series, adaptation of Patricia Cornwell’s novels that has told how for years many tried to make film or serial adaptations but without success, until her friend Jamie Lee Curtis asked her if the rights were available. Once the affirmative answer was obtained, he involved Blumhouse and cut out the role of his sister over the Dorothy Scarpetta lines.
Past Kay (Rosy McEwen) and Past Marino (Jake Cannavale) in SCARPETTA SEASON 1
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Scarpetta is a small miracle in contemporary seriality. A series that works in depth, has no hurry to conclude, it accompanies narrative lines letting the viewer take his way in his own story. He is not bent to the wishes of the public, but creates a narrative to build his own identity. Scarpetta immediately enters the action, we meet the doctor of Italian origins in the day, or rather in the night, in which she returned to resume the reins of the Virginia law office. In parallel we are shown the past, we are in 1998 and Kay Scarpetta recently appointed head of that same office, is struggling with the case of a serial killer who is upsetting the county and putting so much pressure on it. You, the only woman in a world of men, must bear in mind the colleagues who try to hinder it, but try to solve the case.
Nearly thirty years later, the first case he will face at the head of the same office he had left in the past, has disturbing correspondences precisely with that first investigation. What’s the truth? In a continuous reference between past and present, the story expands to the family universe of Kay Scarpetta, his sister Dororthy, to the adorned niece who has practically grown up, to the husband FBI agent, to Detective Pete Marino passed from cognate. And in both temporal planes the protagonist woman must always demonstrate more than men, because it will also have passed thirty years but the situation unfortunately from that point of view has not changed.
Shoes is a joy for the eyes. A TV series written to perfection, in which machine movements move together to the viewer’s gaze, suddenly changing fire and perspective. A TV series perfectly recited, with a divinely chiselled cast starting from a Nicole Kidman in a state of grace, a Bobby Cannavale that is perfect in the part of the man overwhelmed by life, a Jamie Lee Curtis who enjoys in a role that enhances its life.
Prime Video’s TV series immediately establishes a pact with the viewer, promises him honesty in exchange for his attention. Scarpetta does not hide, flaunts the pain, suffering, cruelty, evil, does not save the raw details but shows them to highlight the analytical coldness of its protagonist. In dealing with hypotheses, suspicions, investigations, the series drags us into the mind of its characters, showing that more fragile and dark side that is in each of us but that we tend to hide.
Scarpetta can also be a family drama, putting in the center a disfunctional and chaotic family, in which emotions explode suddenly and overwhelm those like Agent Benton Wesley (Simon Baker/Hunter Parrish) is more likely to rationality and coldness. The Italian origins of the protagonist become so evident not only in the words in Italian thrown here and there but also in the construction of the family dynamic, in which to transpose a viscerality that is the same that is found in the family dinners of the Berzatto of The Bear.
We have no doubt that you have fans of novels will not like this TV series, they have started to criticize it since the announcement. But it is normal to be so, because every literary work is a personal experience that risks being betrayed.
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