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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4887 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 1 of 6 29 August 2014 at 5:52am | IP Logged | ||
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Super Challenge Italian alert: look what I found!
MHZ Networks has just started streaming three Italian detective tv shows. Each are on their first episode. In the past MHZ has streamed each episode for a week or so - the current episodes expire September 8. The past couple months have been all Scandinavian thrillers; I'm excited that they are moving south! I took the descriptions below off of MHZ. Nebbie e delitti (Fog and Crimes). A passion for the job makes Franco Soneri the best investigator in Ferrara, but also its most difficult. He’s brusque and inscrutable, but he and his team manage to discover what others would like to keep hidden: addictions, pedophilia, secret loves, and even injustices left over from World War II. La piovra (The Octopus). First broadcast in Italy in 1984, The Octopus (La Piovra) is an international blockbuster, running 18 years and producing nine follow-up series. The title of this classic Mafia thriller says it all, evoking the image of a secret criminal culture extending its tentacles into every layer of society. The Octopus brings scope and sophistication to the story of an old battle and shows the cost men and women pay when they stand up to the injustice of organized crime. Il commissario Montalbano. Murder, betrayal, office politics, temptation... it's all in a day's work for Detective Salvo Montalbano. With intuition and a cadre of police officers, Montalbano solves crimes in the fictional small city of Vigata. This work brings him across the paths of unforgettable characters who could only come from Sicily. He also wages a personal war with his own demons, which fight against his professional ideals and personal commitment to beautiful long-distance girlfriend, Livia. Yet there's always time to indulge a long-standing flirtation with his ultimate temptress, Italian cuisine. I've seen the first two seasons of Montalbano, and really enjoyed it; the other two are new to me. 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4887 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 2 of 6 30 August 2014 at 3:27am | IP Logged | ||
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And a quick update: Start with Montalbano or La piovra! I watched the first episode of
Fog and Crimes last night, and it wasn't very good. It had all the cliches of the detective genre, but no real style. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 6 30 August 2014 at 5:42am | IP Logged | ||
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I followed 'La Piovra' when it was on Norwegian TV (in the early Jurassic period before videos were ready
available) and I still remember how much I loved it, and how useful it was for my Italian. I do not remember exactly when it was shown in Norway, but I learned Italian in 1989 and I remember that I could understand at least some of the episodes fairly well, so I imagine that some of them were shown from 1989 onwards (either that or I could understand it through my Spanish). Anyway, I highly recommend it. We were all madly in love with Corrado Cattano, the main character, and shocked at what could possibly go on in Italy. I just hope that seeing it again with older eyes will not change the experience too much for me. Anyhow, thank you sooo much for giving us this link. Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 30 August 2014 at 5:44am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4887 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 4 of 6 05 September 2014 at 8:49pm | IP Logged | ||
Who, this guy? I can't imagine why ... 
This is another reminder of how culturally isolated we were in the States in the '80's (even though we thought we weren't). I read that La Piovra was huge all over Europe, yet I had never even heard of it until last week. I really liked the first episode - it holds up well! - and I'm going to be watching the second as soon as it's released on Monday. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 5 of 6 06 September 2014 at 1:08am | IP Logged | ||
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Not to make you feel old, but I've never heard of it; turns out my mum knows it by heart though. Now if I can find it in Italian with Russian subtitles...
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| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5205 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 6 of 6 08 September 2014 at 11:11am | IP Logged | ||
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Great stuff, I had never heard of the first two. La piovra sounds good and I'm surprised I haven't come across it before considering its apparent fame. I've watched quite a few episodes of Montalbano and I like it a lot, although some of the language in it is quite non-standard so I'm not sure how useful it is for less advanced learners.
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