The Law According to Lidia Poët (2023)

7.3 (146 votes)

2 Seasons

February 15, 2023

Italian

Drama Crime War & Politics

Synopsis

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.

Network

Netflix

Episodes

Episode 1

Feb 15, 2023

52 min

5.8

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.

Episode 2

Feb 15, 2023

40 min

6.7

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.

Episode 3

Feb 15, 2023

40 min

7.9

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.

Episode 4

Feb 15, 2023

40 min

5.3

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?