TV: A journey to the dark heart of Naples

There is surely nothing darker on television right now than Gomorra (Sky Atlantic). Many crime dramas strive desperately to achieve this level of bleakness; almost all of them fail miserably

Genny Savastano (Salvatore Esposito) and Ciro Di Marzio (Marco D’Amore) in Gomorra (Sky Atlantic)

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There is surely nothing darker on television right now thanGomorra(Sky Atlantic). Many crime dramas strive desperately to achieve this level of bleakness; almost all of them fail miserably. This is something else.

In 2006, a 26-year-old Italian journalist named Roberto Saviano wrote a savage, non-fiction exposé of the Neapolitan Camorra. It was so successful, selling four million ...