'Capitani' or the underworlds of a paradise

If, as common sense suggests, future sociologists and historians wish to analyze our present, they should regard television series with equal or greater interest than written documents.

Leaving aside the tiresome reality-fiction dichotomy, the series provide information as interesting as it is subjective about today and here, that is, with the same credibility as the brainy tomes of specialists.

This comes from the second season of

(Netflix), a Luxembourg production about the adventures of former policeman Luc Capitani who, after a spell in prison convicted of murder, is now dedicated to private detective work in the capital of the Grand Duchy .

Hired by a prostitute to locate a missing partner, Capitani will begin his particular journey into the underworld of sex and drugs, a peculiar vision of the capital of a country with the second highest income per capita in the world, with a tax policy that borders on the concept of "tax haven" and just under 700,000 inhabitants that, however or perhaps for that very reason, is not exempt from that scourge that is the mafias or that social failure that is illegal immigration with, it seems, a large Nigerian colony.

Of course, without criminals, detective work would be more boring and, therefore, the series less attractive.

The one by the other.

A correct series, without excessive display of talent but made from the conviction that correction is an added value in times when television garbage, the importance of sewers in politics or heartless financial speculation seem to be enthroned.

Fortunately, Capitani, despite all the obstacles that arise in his work, will achieve a happy ending.

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