Suburra, a prequel to the hit Italian film from 2015, which looks at the ties between mafia crime families, Italian politicians and the all-powerful Catholic Church, is being produced together with Italian public broadcaster RAI. The Italian network will carry the show after it goes out on Netflix worldwide.
The “Suburra” TV series will be directed by Michele Placido (“Crime Novel”) (pictured above), by Andrea Molaioli (“The Girl by the Lake”) and by Giuseppe Capotondi (“The Double Hour”). It is written by Daniele Cesarano and Barbara Petronio with Ezio Abbate, Fabrizio Bettelli and Nicola Guaglianone.
Like the film, it is based on a novel of the same name by Giancarlo De Cataldo and Carlo Bonini about a real scandal that emerged recently in the Italian capital. The scandal revolved around the criminal battle over Ostia, a seaside town outside of Rome which was being developed into a gambling paradise. The show, however, is a prequel set a few years prior to those events.
The characters in the film include a corrupt member of parliament, Filippo Malgradi, and a man known as Number 8, who is the head of a powerful family that runs the territory. There are also corrupt religious leaders and rival Mafiosi, including one known as Samurai” who heads the most feared faction in Roman organized crime.
Looks interesting, I'm not sure it will manage to reach Gomorra's quality but it could be a decent alternative for the genre (assuming that it has the ability to bring something new to the table before it gets stale). I do recommend Sollima's movie though, it's unique and well made
Indeed same here, I found the Gomorra movie only decent-ish, whereas Suburra is genuinely great also in terms of production values. Thankfully the TV show gave Saviano's work justice and made up for that.
(Let's hope Rai doesn't ruin everything here, they tend to be cheapskates )
You could give a try to Romanzo Criminale, it has a different tone and approach but the thematics are similar, definitely entertaining if you like the genre.
There aren't many similar movies coming from the Italian cinema since traditionally there's more focus on comedies and light(er) stuff. Things are changing though, new talents and better production values are opening new possibilities.
Romanzo Criminale is great I liked it more than Gomorra.. mostly coz it has better characters you actually care about. I watched all Gomorra seasons and I didn't care at all what would happen to any of the characters and it wasn't coz they were "evil bastards"
There is just something off about Gomorra in this regard.
You can relate to RC's characters easier than to Gomorra's and the story in general is better. imho + the setting + Daniela Virgilio
That's one of the reasons I think Gomorra is so great and unique, it has no likeable characters whatsoever, at most you root for some of them, temporarily
Anyway, Romanzo Criminale is at the top of my series backlog, just like Suburra is top 5 on my movie backlog.
Sheeeeit, I'm gonna end up learning italian (and maybe neapolitan) by force when I haven't even finished Romanzo Criminale yet, now this comes out and Gomorra S3 in about a month
megusta only re-encodes releases from others. by the way the first 4 episodes of the 480p and 720p strife releases have italian 5.1 audio, the rest is english.
Ah damn, they never get it right. All English productions receive the dubbing treatment and now Italian productions that should stay that way get dubbed too
Hopefully something will pop up *soon-ish*, the original language indeed is the only way to experience these series at their fullest. In Gomorra I actually needed the subtitles too (pure Neapolitan is an alien dialect), but the Roman one should be more understandable on paper.
I just checked and there's a release named "Suburra S01e01-10 [1080p - H264 - Ita Eng Ac3 5.1 - MultiSub] - WebRip di TheJohnCena (T7ST)" which does have the original Italian audio track
The_Zeel wrote:
WTF, co-produced by RAI?
But RAI only airs game shows with blooper tits and football, right?
Haha no Rai is fairly "serious" (not really since it's still junk, but a bit better than the rest), the one that you have in mind is the glorious 7Gold
It was really good. The story was nice and the characters were interesting. I liked it more
than Gomorra tbh
However, I expected the season finale to be better tbh
8+/10
Just finished this as well and i completely agree with you. One sidenote though, i didn't really like that you saw every time a part of the ending at the start of the episode.
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