1.2: Untrustworthy Spaces, Unfathomable Gangsters (‘Ti fidi di me?’, Stefano Sollima)

The article is dedicated to an episode of the television show Gomorrah (1.02) and describes how the visual dichotomy between increasing impotency and the outward manifestations of power, made manifest by a sharp division between interiors and exteriors, is constructed in relation to other intertextual and intermedial references, such as the tv series Romanzo criminale. La serie (2008-2010), The Wire (2002-2008), and Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014) and Nicholas Winding Refn’s crime film Pusher II – With Blood on My Hands (2004). Furthermore, it examines how the montage sequence, a typical textual device of both Italian cinema and quality TV, is employed in the series as a trope with a paratextual function that allows viewers to orient themselves in the narrative space of the series.