6.050 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestIt's November 2011: Berlusconi's fourth government is about to fall, again. Some things have changed, others have remained the same. How will Leonardo, Veronica and Pietro's stories end?
After the breakdown of the old government, and with it the First Republic, Italy changed for good in 1994. Spinster Leo is all too aware of this. He pushed hard to see Berlusconi get elected Prime Minister. He knows it's not easy to win power, but holding on to it verges on the impossible. By the same token, it seems equally impossible for populist politician Pietro to change. Even now that he has an office at the Prime Minister's premises in Rome, he still can't cast off his old bad habits. Nor can he forget the only woman he has ever loved. A former TV starlet now turned politician and Congresswoman, Veronica has to decide who the man of her life is going to be. She has realized she no longer wants to be just a woman on the arm of powerful men. It is the start of her own push for power.
Acting
Miriam Leone's transformation from trophy to player
Production
Grotesque Berlusconi-era aesthetic perfection
Writing
Fictionalized history that stings with truth
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series dramatizes Operation Clean Hands, the real 1992-94 corruption probe that collapsed Italy's postwar political order and accidentally birthed Berlusconism. FREE
Miriam Leone won Miss Italy 2008 before becoming an actress—casting her as a former beauty queen clawing toward substance carries deliberate meta-weight. FREE
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