SUBURRA: BLOOD OF ROME aka sex, drugs, violence and ZONING (and the wickedest of these is zoning, my son)

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

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

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.

S2 starts here! everyone is back on their roman bullshit!

even better than S1 iirc

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.

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)

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

Hold on, is this on netflix? I need to watch this? Yes. I shld.

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

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

insufficient time dedicated to ZONING matters imo

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.

(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.)

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.

best moment was when they eat pasta

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

Started watching this cause of this thread. It's fantastic. So on which book is it based?

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.

Thanks! Will read the book :-)

i've been on an italian crime fiction kick for the last few years; if anyone is interested in recommendations hit me up.

I am -- maybe post some on Crime Fiction, S/D?

best moment was when they eat pasta

^^^^^^^ 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.

S3 is on netflix UK and everything's already kicked off and more

it's on US Netflix too

best moment was when they eat pasta

― 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?

rewatching from the start of s1: will log and assess all pasta consumption

(may not in fact log and assess all pasta consumption)

my initial critique of s3 btw: NOT enough ZONING

"tutta roma, zona mia" sez samurai in the first head-to-head with manfredi (s1e1, 15 mins in)

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.

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.