Tangled Lies

My husband and I viewed all 18 hours of Scomparsa (Tangled Lies) on AcornTV because we've traveled extensively throughout Italy and Sicily and we both have studied the language; however, we found this Italian crime melodrama (with English subtitles) long and silly although the enormous cast, interiors and seaside settings were bella. The show fails to deliver a plot based on fictional crimes in a well-structured timeline that would (a) keep police and viewers guessing and (b) make sense in the end. There were just too many characters and teeny boppers and amateur singalongs and subplots and far-distant locales that, ultimately, did not, for me, add up to a satisfying whole. Even though it's Italy, we don't ever see a large happy family or the inside of a church or a home-cooked meal - the closest we get is smatterings of mother-love and a harangue by a priest in the school gym as the crimes become public (his small audience hardly seem to listen or to care) - is it any wonder the modern Italian family has fallen to shreds, particularly with this plethora of workaholics, mouthy kids, inadequate parents, unfaithful spouses, friends sleeping with their best friends' spouses, adulterous witnesses lurking in out-of-the-way hotel rooms, et cetera?Scomparsa (Tangled Lies) could be classified as a police procedural but the police constantly behave badly by believing alibis, informing the media (newspaper and radio) of mistaken assumptions, allowing family members to tag along on crim