Inspector Montalbano Season 1

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Inspector Montalbano debuted on RAI 2 in May 1999 and immediately distinguished itself from the European police procedural pack by refusing to be procedural in any hurried sense. Each of the four debut episodes runs close to 100 minutes, adapted from Andrea Camilleri's novels of the same fictional Sicilian setting. Luca Zingaretti's Commissario Salvo Montalbano is a policeman who reads, cooks, swims, argues with Rome, and occasionally solves murders - roughly in that order of enthusiasm. The series broadcast in over 65 countries and became RAI's most internationally successful drama of the era. Individual episode IMDb ratings cluster around 7.5 for the early run, with the series averaging solid marks across two decades. The debut season's signal achievement is establishing tone: warmly comic, morally serious, visually anchored in the actual Ragusa and Modica coastline that doubles for the fictional Vigata.

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