# This Is Not Hollywood (2024)

> A four-episode Italian miniseries retelling the 2010 disappearance of a teenage girl in Avetrana through the eyes of the people around her.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/131914

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 4
- Episode runtime: 65 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: crime, drama
- Created by: Pippo Mezzapesa
- Network: Disney+
- Cast: Federica Pala, Giulia Perulli, Paolo De Vita, Vanessa Scalera, Imma Villa, Anna Ferzetti, Giancarlo Commare
- TMDB rating: 7.2/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28372209/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: somber, intimate, disquieting, measured, provincial suspicion

## What critics say

Audiences rate this Italian true crime miniseries positively, praising its unsettling retelling of the Sarah Scazzi disappearance through the eyes of the people closest to it.

## Synopsis

This Is Not Hollywood (2024) is an Italian national-broadcast true crime miniseries created by Pippo Mezzapesa for Disney+. Across four episodes of roughly sixty-five minutes each, it dramatizes the disappearance of a young girl named Sarah Scazzi, played by Federica Pala, in the southern Italian town of Avetrana. Her cousin Sabrina Misseri, played by Giulia Perulli, stands at the emotional center as the town falls into turmoil and everyone joins the search. Paolo De Vita as Michele Misseri and Vanessa Scalera as Cosima Serrano anchor the wider family whose everyday routines are slowly disturbed by suspicion. The engine of the story is the gradual unease of a community that cannot find a girl who seems to have vanished without a trace, and the way ordinary households begin to hide and reveal their own secrets. Each episode moves at a measured pace, building a grounded, claustrophobic atmosphere of heat, gossip and dread. Narrated through the perspectives of the protagonists, the miniseries feels like a documentary-leaning drama and is shaped as one continuous case rather than separate stories. Its tone is somber, intimate and disquieting, with a mood of provincial suspicion. Fans of Making a Murderer, Broadchurch and Il Delitto di Via Poma will find resonance in its true crime grounding and its unresolved, morally uneasy portrait of a small community.

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