The highly successful Italian TV series with a twist closes Amazon Prime Videowhich he sees as the protagonist Louis LoCascio in the guise of Tonino Scotellaro, a prosecutor grappling with the arrest of the formidable boss mobster Mariano Suro. After the positive judgment expressed by the critics, Prime video is moving to renew The Bad Guy at least one more season. And that’s what we all hope for. Not just because the ending remains very openbut also because – finally – we are facing a great Italian series quality. The story goes back to a plot already addressed in multiple films and television series: the fight against organized crime. THowever, it is the way the product is packaged that amazes and fascinates. The directors Stasi e Fontanain fact, combining together drama e commedia give life to a credible and well-designed series, thanks also to an excellent one photography – exceptional retouching in post production – and a fast pace that leaves no room for distractions. The soundtrack works too. The choice of alternating authorial pieces that have made the history of Italian and international music, with more pop e indie, create a sound trend vintage e modernand a melancholic and fun atmosphere at the same time.
So what can we expect from the second season?
From the point of view of writing and directing we shouldn’t expect big news. The theme will be tackled with the same ironic tone. A style that has always belonged to the two directors a starting with Love Today until Put grandma in freezer. But that what we care most about is knowing the development of the story: what will be the fate of Scotellaro after being captured by Mariano Suro. Everyone believes that the magistrate died during the collapse of the bridge over the strait – among other things one of the most satirical moments of the season, for obvious reasons – except Salvatore Tracina who is the only one who knows, moreover, of the change of identity of the prosecutor in Balduccio Remora, a mafia cousin who emigrated to South America and died a few years earlier. Similar to the literary character the It was Mattia Pascal Of Louis PirandelloTonino too is faced with the sudden need to transform his own identity: morally muddy and destroyed in his credibility, Tonino dies and finds his life again to carry out his revenge. She does it by infiltrating the other side, the one he’s always been trying to defeat, the side of the bad guys. Because the one and only possibility left to him is to become himself the bad. The final episode leaves us with many questions and a single certainty. Mariano Suro is aware that the real Balduccio Remora died in South America and tells us at the end of the sixth episode. But what about Tonino? The prosecutor has a gun pointed at his head and Suro intends to pull the trigger. Will he reveal his true identity or does he have a ruse in store to get away with it? The ability of the authors to close the last episode in the heat of voltage, not only gives us hope for the renewal of the series, but makes us assume that Tonino will not be killed. At least not at this juncture. Also because a second season without Luigi Lo Cascio would be unthinkable.
What other knots will have to be untied in the second season of The Bad Guy ?
One certainly concerns the ambiguous role Of Luvi Braylawyer and wife of Scotellaro, played by the always charming Claudia Pandolfi. His about-face in the end it is unsettling, but we expected it. In the first episode, in fact, we have the feeling that it is she who is doing the tip to the Suro family and to frustrate the arrest of boss Sicilian, to the desperation of Tonino Scotellaro. It is at that juncture that Luvi is resumed: on the notes of If by phoning Of Minawith cigarette in hand and shining eyes, looks who he seems sadly guilty. We then have confirmation of this in the last scenes of the sixth episode, when Luvi sends the blitz orchestrated together with the pentito Cataldo Palamitaformer right-hand man of Suro, e LeonardoRos agent and Tonino’s sister.
Why did she lie to her husband all these years? May she have one too dual identity? Luvi’s behavior suggests that there is a link between her and the Cosa Nostra and that she is embroiled in something shady. Which compromising clues could they come up with the arrest of Suro?
Furthermore, we will also know more about the fate of the fearless Leonardo. Betrayed by her own sister-in-law, she now risks being expelled from the weapon for having staged the ambush against the police van carrying Palamita. It will be the old Palamita who confesses to Leonarda that Tonino did it deliberately stuck and that someone has stolen Balduccio Remora’s identity. This immediately makes her hope that her brother is still alive and that it is he who is acting under an assumed name. Let us therefore expect to see all of Leonarda’s tenacity, determined to investigate and get to the bottom of the story.
Will Stasi and Fontana change the dichotomy of good and bad, and will the evolution of the characters have a happy ending?
In The Bad Guy it seems that no one can be trusted. Each character hides a enigmaand trauma unsolved, aobsession which keeps him anchored in the past. As if to approach the good one must draw from the evil. And we don’t quite understand if the paths that are being taken are the result of free will or have already been traced. Whether to move the intricate thread of choices either the fear o il wish. We still don’t know what Scotellaro’s intentions are, much less those of Luvi and Leonarda. Nonetheless, the references to Walter White in Breaking Bad oa Martin Burde in Ozark – to name two – are almost automatic. The good that becomes bad. The pure soul that is contaminated. The first, a sick chemistry professor who becomes a drug dealer for a Mexican cartel. The second, a financial advisor who stumbles upon money laundering for organized crime. Both apparently moved by a greater good: good for the family. Yet, the line between appearance and reality is blurred. Man can get confused because what he sees in appearance can only be an illusion. E’ the veil of maya by Schopenhauer. We act thinking we are moved by an end, but that same end is the deception behind which the real reason for our choices is hidden. Thus, after acting for the good of the family, Walter and Martin discover the complexity of their most intimate essence. What will it be then the evolution of the character played by Luigi Lo Cascio? That even Tonino, like Walter and Martin, will be overwhelmed by the same fallible and selfish nature of him? Moved by a supreme good, the justicewill be blinded by thirst Of vendetta?
At this point, we just have to wait the second season on Prime Video, to immerse ourselves in the intricate plots of the story and find out what the psychological aspect of our protagonist will be. If he will be a victim of his own obsessionturning into a cynical and ruthless Bad Guy, or whether it will be faithful to its original values. We can say it: Tonino Scotellaro still has all the credentials to break the mechanism of good and bad to which we are accustomed, and become a prince of Italian seriality.
