The show maintains traditional character-driven storytelling, focusing on Sicilian culture, believable relationships, and complex investigations. Identity factors are incidental, not foregrounded, and the characters succeed or fail based on merit and personality, not any forced representation. It’s refreshingly free of heavy-handed modern ideology.

Family, duty, religion, and tradition are depicted with genuine respect. Masculinity is portrayed in a nuanced, positive light, and no attempt is made to subvert gender roles for ideological reasons. Historical and cultural context is lovingly rendered and not overwritten to fit modern narratives.

While the show leans into a particular Italian worldview, it never mocks or villainizes tradition. Alternative perspectives are not a focus, but neither are they singled out as villains. The series avoids shoving modern, ideological consensus onto its characters.