Randomness? Causality? Telemelonity? We don’t know how else to define the concomitance of three legal-inspired fiction with the imminent referendum on the separation of magistrates’ careers. The first series is on Sky, «Avvocato Ligas», the other two were broadcast on Sunday and Monday on Raiuno, one on the lawyer «Guerrieri – The rule of equilibrium», the other, now practically historical, «Imma Tataranni» which features a PM. All this flourishing of lawyers and judges, in this historical moment, especially on state TV, in fact, seems inappropriate to us and, in some cases, even misleading and, in any case, we believe that, even in good faith, it can only create confusion in the viewer/voter, also due to some inaccuracies and maximizations characterizing the characters.
In the fiction about Imma Tataranni, for example, lawyers rarely appear, and the fact that the exuberant public prosecutor has a lively and not always institutional approach in her clothing as in her work is a characteristic that the less knowledgeable public attributes to the sympathy of the interpreter Vanessa Scalera, while her bosses are depicted as subjects almost suffering from behavioral problems, see the new prosecutor, played by Rocco Papaleo, who moves his stuffed hunting trophies into his office. Things are no better with the lawyer Guerrieri, born from the pen of Gianrico Carofiglio, a writer with a past in the judiciary. The episodes of the series see Alessandro Gassmann in the role of Guido Guerrieri, an esteemed lawyer, with a series of intimate fragilities which, however, do not distract him from his defensive function, in which he tries to combine preparation with empathy. What is certain is that, regardless of the cases resolved in the individual episodes, the one that we will drag on for another three Mondays concerns a judge accused of corruption by another disturbing colleague of his. We then leave to the exegetes the fact that, in the first episode aired, the relationship that existed in the past between the lawyer and his client became a case of bullying without political colours. Finally on Sky Luca Argentero, already a medical luminary, is now a prince of the deranged forum. His wife leaves him, the owner of the firm fires him and he finds himself practically without customers, but he doesn’t lose heart, trusting in his boldness and investigative intuition. Here too it would be up to debate whether his representation does honor to the category.
The initial question remains, on the opportunity of broadcasting legal dramas, which due to plot, inaccuracies and characteristics can create suggestions especially in an audience that has no defined cultural references and still thinks that TV tells the truth.
