The BEST Rai 2 shows of all time
Every Rai 2 show, ranked
We've compiled the average episode rating for every Rai 2 show to compile this list of best shows!
#1 - The Octopus
First broadcast in Italy in 1984, The Octopus (La Piovra) is an international blockbuster, running 18 years and producing nine follow-up series. The title of this classic Mafia thriller says it all, evoking the image of a secret criminal culture extending its tentacles into every layer of society.
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#2 - Rocco Schiavone
Weed smoking, foulmouthed Rocco Schiavone is an offbeat Deputy Commissioner of the State Police. For disciplinary reasons he is transferred to the Alpine town of Aosta, far from his beloved Rome. The sophisticated but cranky Roman despises the mountains, the cold, and the provincial locals as much as he disdains his superiors and their petty rules. But he loves solving crimes.
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#3 - Inspector Coliandro
The improbable adventures of an improbable inspector of the Italian Police Force in the city of Bologna. While policemen in Italian fiction are usually stalwart servants of the law, inspector Coliandro saves the day mostly by a combination of luck and intuition. He is ignorant, crude, and despised by all his colleagues except this partner, who is the only one who view him the way he views himself: as a hero worthy of the good guys in American cop movies.
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#4 - The Red Door
Maverick detective Leonardo Cagliostro, who's desperate to help his loved ones, gets help from a teenage clairvoyant.
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#5 - Thou Shalt Not Kill
Stubborn and determined detective Valeria Ferro endeavors to solve the challenging puzzle behind crimes motivated by jealousy, vendettas and repressed anger to seek the truth and justice. All as she struggles with her own demons and the phantoms of her past that come back to life when her mother is released from jail after serving a seventeen-year prison sentence.
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#6 - The Sea Beyond
The Institute of Juvenile Penalty of Naples is overlooking the sea and hosts seventy inmates: 50 males and 20 females. When they come in, the kids are always under 18 and they do it because they "made a mistake". This series tells their stories.
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#7 - The Hunter (2018)
Inspired by the true story of the anti-Mafia magistrate Alfonso Sabella, the series follows Saverio Barone, a young prosecutor who in the early 1990s became the protagonist of the “caccia alla Mafia” (Mafia-hunt) immediately following the Capaci and Via D'Amelio bombings.
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