User:BonnyZuppa/Maria Corleone, season 1

The first season of the television series "Maria Corleone," consisting of 8 episodes, is broadcast in a premiere on Canale 5 every Wednesday from September 13 to October 4, 2023, in four prime-time evenings.

Episode 1

 * Directed by: Mauro Mancini Story by: Pietro Valsecchi Written by: Mizio Curcio and Paolo Marchesini

Plot
Maria Corleone is a Palermo-based fashion designer who lives in Milan with her partner Luca Spada, a young prosecutor from whom she is expecting a child. To make her way in the fashion world, given her last name, she goes by the name Maria Florio. During her return to Palermo for her parents' wedding anniversary, her father, Luciano Corleone, a powerful entrepreneur suspected of having ties to the mafia, is targeted in an attack by a fake waiter who infiltrates the party. Giovanni, Maria's twin brother, shoots the waiter (who is wearing a bulletproof vest), but the waiter kills him with a few gunshots. In an attempt to shoot Maria as well, he realizes his gun is empty, giving her the opportunity to escape. This event drives her to seek vengeance for her brother's death.

Maria then recalls a childhood event: when they were children, she, Giovanni, and their younger brother Stefano thwarted an attempted rape, with Maria herself pulling the trigger and shooting the assailant from behind. She later hid the gun in the sand on a beach. She returns to that same beach, digs in the sand, and retrieves the gun, swearing vengeance.

With her talent as a fashion designer, Maria tries to remember the attacker's appearance by sketching a face that goes by the name Franco Garritano, a man in the service of the Barresi family, a rival clan of the Corleones. Luciano, recovering from the attack and now limping, swears vengeance for his son's death. During his son's funeral, he sends his men to gun down the Barresis, but there is no sign of Giarritano.


 * Viewership: 2,753,000 viewers - 16.50% share..

Episode 2

 * Directed by: Mauro Mancini Story by: Pietro Valsecchi Written by: Mizio Curcio and Paolo Marchesini

Plot
One evening, recalling the incident more clearly, Maria begins to sketch the model of shoes that the killer was wearing at that time. Together with her childhood friend Rocco Barresi, they embark on a journey to find the man, tracing back to the shoemaker who crafted that pair of shoes. The shoemaker eventually reveals the hideout of the man to them.

Rocco instructs Maria to wait for him in the car and goes alone to Giarritano's hideout. However, he finds himself cornered, seeming to be in a dire situation. Maria intervenes and shoots Giarritano in the back, saving Rocco's life and avenging her brother's death. Rocco and Maria hide the body in the trunk of their jeep but are stopped by a police patrol, who orders them to open the trunk.


 * Viewership: 2,753,000 viewers - 16.50% share..