I thought this episode had the same charm of watching a cock-fight in a burned out building.. You had a long time feud, a bunch of noisy Italian-Americans and a family business that was control by the a hard-nose father figure. Good times right? No- I thought I was watching a poor pilot for an upcoming comedy/drama TV show but instead was watching an episode of Perry Mason that needed to include a free copy of Rosette Stone Language Learning Software to make the show more interesting.
It involved Paul Porro that would go from town to town telling other Italians that he was an old friend of the family. He then use this ruse to get free room and board and tons of good food.
Here he picked the wrong family. Little did he know that there was an old Italian feud between his the Porro's and the Bacio's. (Bacio was the family he picked out of the phone book to scam) When Mr Bacio ends up dead, Paul is fingered as the killer and Perry will defend him in court.
During the trial we learn that just about everyone hated Mr Bacio. Even his family had disdain for him. So this leaves Perry to pick people's stories apart and find the true killer.
The writes did try to complicate the story by letting us know that Mr Bacio was going to leave town and go back to his homeland. All this did was confuse us even more when this had nothing to do with the ending. But I guess it killed 15 minutes of air-time so it did accomplish something to the hour but did nothing for the viewer.
This episode was disappointing. After watching I felt sad that I wasted my time with this show. It may have had some good moments- but the bad moments far out-weight any fraction of a good watch. But I guess after eight season you find one show that is not up to the regular standard.