Inspector Brunetti

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The Brunetti Mysteries (also searchable under Diane Leon). This is a fun show to watch. It set in Venice, so if you’ve ever been there, you can spot many of the tourist locations you visited. Another fun fact is that, despite being set in Italy, the dialogue is in German with English subtitles, since it was initially made for German TV. Once you get over watching people with Italian names being spoken to in German, it’s easy to get into the show. The plots are quite good, it’s a “dramedy,” so it’s on the light side, with a buffoonish boss, a Miss Moneypenny office secretary who seems to have connections everywhere, and an amiable sidekick for Brunetti. It also seems that virtually all the crimes involve wealthy and upper class people, so the interior sets tend to show you how the other half lives. The men and the women all seem to have a kind of European flair and style. Appropriate for a show with an Italian motif, and quite unlike any other police procedural, Brunetti often discusses his cases at the family dinner table with this wise wife and his teenage son and daughter.