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The Law According to Lidia Poët
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Matilda De Angelis
Lidia Poët
18 eps
Sara Lazzaro
Teresa Barberis
18 eps
Nicolo Pasetti
Louis
6 eps
Dario Aita
Andrea
6 eps
Mia McGovern Zaini
Young Lidia Poët
6 eps
Eduardo Scarpetta
Jacopo Barberis
18 eps
Pier Luigi Pasino
Enrico Poët
18 eps
Francesca De Martini
Mathilde
6 eps
Sinead Thornhill
Marianna Poët
18 eps
Alessia Spinelli
Albertina
18 eps
Gianmarco Saurino
Procuratore Fourneau
6 eps
Aldo Ottobrino
Investigating judge/Giudice Procuratore Genovesi
7 eps
Nika Perrone
Azzurra
19 eps
Marit Nissen
Crespal
1 eps
Francesco Patanè
Pietro Baiocchi
1 eps
Diego Giangrasso
Carlo Ferrero
1 eps
Roberta Mengozzi
Maya
1 eps
Luca Filippi
Vittorio Muraro
1 eps
Marta Marenco
Lucia Gori
1 eps
Italo Amerighi
Edoardo Guarino
1 eps
Sebastiano Fumagalli
Lorenzo
7 eps
Andrea Palma
Cesare Brusaferro
6 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Law According to Lidia Poët actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Law According to Lidia Poët reads strongest on Character Depth, Serialized and Emotional Weight.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
In late 19th-century Turin, the young Lidia Poët, fights against everything and everyone to get what is rightfully hers: to be enrolled in the official register of lawyers. A profession, at the time, reserved exclusively for men. Nevertheless, nothing could stop her dream of becoming the first female lawyer in Italy.
The run
Seasons
3 seasons · 18 episodes.
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
20236 episodes
6.0IMDbBest episode · S01E03 Episode 3
Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
20246 episodes
6.4IMDbDetermined to make her mark on the legal world, Lidia (Matilda De Angelis) now aspires to change the discriminatory laws preventing her from practicing law, pushing her brother Enrico to run for Parliament to champion her cause. As she dives into secret investigations, Lidia faces new challenges with prosecutor Fourneau (a formidable new ally and rival) while revisiting her past with Jacopo. This season will explore Lidia’s fierce fight for justice, women’s rights, and her struggle with personal sacrifices in a society that’s not ready for a woman like her.
Best episode · S02E05 Episode 5
Season 3 · Complete
Season 3
20266 episodes
7.9IMDbApril 1887. Between Rome and Turin. Enrico is in Parliament. Lidia's law reaches the committee. But an explosive case shocks public opinion. Grazia Fontana, Lidia's best friend, is accused of killing her husband. In the Assize Court, prosecuting the case is Fourneau. Before him, Lidia. Is it murder... or self-defense? It's the trial of the century, and Lidia will once again have to choose: protect her heart or rewrite the law?
Best episode · S03E03 Episode 3
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E03
Episode 3
Lidia and Enrico discover some family secrets when, in an opioid haze, a man from Lidia's past confesses to patricide in her childhood home.
S01E02
Episode 2
Much to Enrico's chagrin, Lidia agrees to defend an anarchist accused of murder. But the scandal goes deeper than she expected and lands her in trouble.
S01E01
Episode 1
When a ballerina turns up dead, her alleged stalker is accused of murder. Desperate, the suspect's mother turns to Italy's first female lawyer for help.
S01E04
Episode 4
A woman very similar to Lidia — educated, underestimated, scorned — is on trial. Lidia wants to represent her, but is she too invested to see the truth?
S01E05
Episode 5
After a seance at a wild party, a wealthy businessman mysteriously expires, and the most likely suspect has been locked in an asylum for years.
S01E06
Episode 6
Lidia uncovers a conspiracy and faces a choice: Should she stay and make her way in a place that doesn't want her, or seek her fortune elsewhere?
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Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Davide OrsiniProducer
- Guido IuculanoProducer
Writing
- Guido IuculanoWriter
Direction
- Matteo RovereDirector
- Letizia LamartireDirector
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