The protagonist of the novel is a cop so it'll be interesting to see how they handle this. Still haven't watched past ep 3 tho.
― ian, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
once you notice during the closing credits mura del canto singing end their verses with "ROMA doodah doodah doodah" you can't unhear it*
*ok probably doesn't apply to people who understand a word of italian
― mark s, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 18:54 (six years ago) link
^^^lol my english there
― mark s, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 18:57 (six years ago) link
the incorruptible guy is also insufferable
― mark s, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link
OMG THE BRIDAL SUITE IS LIKE A SET FROM GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
― mark s, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 20:02 (six years ago) link
samurai's amusement when the good boys go bad, then hurry ahead of themselves to be worse
― mark s, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 21:15 (six years ago) link
everyone goes bad
(i've never seen schnitzler's la ronde but one of the features of this show is that a *lot* of it is one-on-one encounters -- mostly not sexual -- and whenever a new pair meet up, the plot clicks into a new cycle, changing everything else for everyone else)
― mark s, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 22:20 (six years ago) link
i love the head crim's wry smile, it says something like "welcome to the world of crime, nothing is fine"
― mark s, Thursday, 19 October 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
more italian shoes chat :)
― mark s, Thursday, 19 October 2017 19:05 (six years ago) link
"this time i won't lie" *immediately tells a massive lie*
― mark s, Thursday, 19 October 2017 19:30 (six years ago) link
competition for worst dad
(my two thousand lira: il papa)
― mark s, Thursday, 19 October 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
done: everyone died that i expected to :(
― mark s, Thursday, 19 October 2017 22:15 (six years ago) link
watching the film now: samurai is a different actor, aureliano the same tho (alessandro borghi) -- not sure if it shares any other characters
(the series is apparently a prequel)
― mark s, Friday, 20 October 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
ok spadolini's also in it, same actor (plus his brother and his vast family)
― mark s, Friday, 20 October 2017 17:29 (six years ago) link
DOES INSPECTOR MALATESTA EVER SHOW UP?
― ian, Friday, 20 October 2017 18:42 (six years ago) link
rome seems to be entirely unpoliced, apart from lele's dad
― mark s, Friday, 20 October 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
will resist spoilers for the film: unsurprisingly it's a lot more "filmy" than the TV prequel (esp.in the lighting and the mobster behaviour depts), and as a result i think less good, tho it has some good set-pieces and i like how much it rains in this version of rome -- you saw much more of and got more of a sense of rome in the TV, bcz it had a bit more time and used it time very well indeed
― mark s, Friday, 20 October 2017 19:30 (six years ago) link
rome seems to be entirely unpoliced, apart from lele's dad― mark s, Friday, 20 October 2017 18:56 (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mark s, Friday, 20 October 2017 18:56 (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
just finished watching and came here to post - least competent police force on any show? only cop who tries to do something gets shot and nobody seems to bother trying to solve it either
I like how everyone spends their day turning up at people's homes
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Monday, 30 October 2017 01:48 (six years ago) link
Still haven't seen movie, but I will say that I liked the series a lot, even though it misses a lot of the subplots and compexities of the novel.
― ian, Monday, 30 October 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
S2 starts here! everyone is back on their roman bullshit!
― mark s, Thursday, 28 February 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link
even better than S1 iirc
― Brad C., Thursday, 28 February 2019 18:36 (five years ago) link
looking forward to it! still have to finish S1 though.
it was a very wise decision to change the character of Samurai for the film and the series. in the novel he is patently ridiculous.
― omar little, Thursday, 28 February 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
so is s2 still prequel to the film or what?
(i have p much forgotten how everything fitted together in s1 *or* the film so it doesn't matter exactly)
― mark s, Thursday, 28 February 2019 18:59 (five years ago) link
yes, S2 follows directly from S1 and I think takes events up to the point of the film
a lot of the backstory elaborated in the TV series isn't touched on at all in the film, so S1 and S2 are more tightly linked to each other than the TV series is to the movie
― Brad C., Thursday, 28 February 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
Hold on, is this on netflix? I need to watch this? Yes. I shld.
― nathom, Thursday, 28 February 2019 21:05 (five years ago) link
two episodes in, it's good to be back, but the first episode was super-confusing in a "isn't that person dead? and that person?" way, only partly because I couldn't remember what happened in the film and what happened in S1
― seandalai, Saturday, 2 March 2019 02:13 (five years ago) link
i prefer Samurai in the series over Samurai in the film tbqf.
TV samurai looks the part more
https://s2.r29static.com//bin/entry/30e/x,80/1861124/image.jpg
film samurai seems just a little too weary to be properly intimidating
https://cc-media-foxit.fichub.com/image/fox-it-mondofox/7a50f741-21a9-4cac-b4b0-fd25b1f4034a/claudio-amendola-e-samurai-maxw-1280.jpg
― omar little, Saturday, 2 March 2019 02:22 (five years ago) link
insufficient time dedicated to ZONING matters imo
― seandalai, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 23:12 (five years ago) link
still re-watching season 1 but stoked to get into this.
i've been on an italian crime fiction kick for the last few years; if anyone is interested in recommendations hit me up.
― ian, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 23:16 (five years ago) link
(the book the TV show is based on is very good tbh and a lot of stuff in the book is not, at least as far as i've seen, not gotten into in the series or film.)
― ian, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 23:17 (five years ago) link
I binged over three days so possibly I just watched it wrong, but this felt less satisfying: plot was sloppier, characters looser, none of the new elements were particularly engaging. Always have time to watch Spadino, Aureliano, Samurai, Romolo but idk whether much happened to them character-wise since S1. Cinaglia is not a character, he's just a noun phrase with no apparent interior life. Sports guy who cares (though his framed copies of Roma Futurista were a nice touch).
Can't wait for S3 obv.
― seandalai, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 23:19 (five years ago) link
best moment was when they eat pasta
― seandalai, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 13:17 (five years ago) link
the main rome crime boss, known as samurai (francesco acquaroli), looks unnervingly like michael howerd
― mark s, Sunday, October 15, 2017 10:55 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^still true and weird
― mark s, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 13:23 (five years ago) link
Started watching this cause of this thread. It's fantastic. So on which book is it based?
― nathom, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 19:29 (five years ago) link
https://www.amazon.com/Suburra-Carlo-Bonini/dp/1609454073/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=suburra&qid=1551901232&s=gateway&sr=8-2
the book formed the direct basis for the Suburra film. the series is a prequel, not sure if i'd recommend watching the film at this point while you're watching it.
― omar little, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
Thanks! Will read the book :-)
― nathom, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 21:54 (five years ago) link
I am -- maybe post some on Crime Fiction, S/D?
― Brad C., Wednesday, 6 March 2019 23:48 (five years ago) link
^^^^^^^ otm for sure. Binged S2 and am somewhat dissatisfied. The police side of the story has always been weak for me and Cristiana's turn at the end seems totally forced. Can't wait for S3 of course.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 15 June 2019 07:24 (four years ago) link
S3 is on netflix UK and everything's already kicked off and more
― mark s, Saturday, 31 October 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
it's on US Netflix too
― Brad C., Saturday, 31 October 2020 20:50 (three years ago) link
best moment was when they eat pasta― seandalai, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 13:17 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
― seandalai, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 13:17 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
solid pasta scene in S3E2, anyone catch what it was that Aureliano added from the jar? Tuna?
― timber euros (seandalai), Sunday, 1 November 2020 02:07 (three years ago) link
rewatching from the start of s1: will log and assess all pasta consumption
(may not in fact log and assess all pasta consumption)
― mark s, Sunday, 1 November 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
my initial critique of s3 btw: NOT enough ZONING
― mark s, Sunday, 1 November 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
"tutta roma, zona mia" sez samurai in the first head-to-head with manfredi (s1e1, 15 mins in)
― mark s, Sunday, 1 November 2020 17:07 (three years ago) link
Didn't realise until S3E6 that there were only six episodes in the season. Maybe not surprising that the ending felt rushed - could definitely have done with an aftermath episode devoted to pasta eating, parking cars and staring at the sea.
― timber euros (seandalai), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 19:07 (three years ago) link
I guess S3 was a somewhat satisfying coda to the series? The ending felt inevitable and vaguely dissatisfying but I'm willing to attribute some of that to not eating pasta while I was watching.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 3 January 2021 06:28 (three years ago) link