I Watch TV: Dostoyevsky
Dostoyevsky (2024 TV Series) In Italy Enzo, a police detective, is having a breakdown, an overdose, at home when his boss calls him to investigate a murder. A family have been killed at their home; the killer has left a letter describing their feelings and those of the victims in nihilistic terms, also a lot more in the vein of the world being a horrible, meaningless place. This is another in a series, each with these long letters, leading to the squad giving the killer the nickname Dostoyevsky. A young, new, hard-driving detective joins the team, has the usual way this goes explained to him. He has not been ground down by the failure of the hunt, having been brought in by Enzo’s boss to try and shake things up. It doesn’t really work, but it does given Enzo something to work against. Enzo’s other story involves his daughter, Ambra, who he abandoned as a child. She now lives in squalor, a drug addict. His efforts to reconnect are, as we learn, doomed. She responds variou...