<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The setting of the TV series Gomorrah – The Series (2014–present) is the Neapolitan district of Scampia, around and inside a large urban housing project called ‘Le Vele’. This setting is where the narrated events (the Camorra’s wars and drug trafficking) find their real-life existence. This article focuses on the element of space, with the streets, the buildings and their surroundings also acting as protagonists of the series. This produces an immersive identification not with a single point of view but with a film context that mimetically represents a social milieu. The TV series takes the viewer inside the miserable corridors of Le Vele, creating a feeling of empathy that relies on space, on the scary pleasure of ‘being there’, witnessing the Camorristi’s wretched lives. Gomorrah – The Series acts as a kind of horror– melodrama–documentary, where space sustains these three components with its indexicality and its charge of uncanny and grief.</jats:p>