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Questo mondo non mi renderà cattivo (2023)
Disappointing
Disclaimer: this review refers to the Italian dub.
"Appizzato, fa pippa, s'impiccia, sta a rota, fatto i buffi con gente, ti voleva crepà 3 piotte, s'engrugna, regge botta".
This is just a small list of terms continuously used in the series that nobody outside of Rome understands. This series, in the "Italian" dub, is intended way too much for a Roman audience. It's cute that in the first episode they make the effort to explain a single word that they believe non-Romans would not understand, but then there is all the rest that is taken for granted.
Honestly, as a non-Roman, I understood very little and I struggled to understand what was said and what was happening. (Secco, in particular, is completely unintelligible). They'd better dub and adapt the series into proper Italian, I'd lose the Romanity but I'd understand what's going on. Zerocalcare's dubbing was fine when he used to make the hilarious 5-minute self-produced videos, where he did everything, from animation to all the voices: he spoke very fast due to duration requirements, you had to commit yourself but it was for a short time and the videos were very funny. The previous Netflix series was also acceptable, all in all, it was a kind of evolution of his home-made videos. However, if Zerocalcare wants to continue with the series business, they strongly need a real dubbing and an adaptation in Italian. Otherwise it's only for Romans. How can they expect that outside of Rome you understand all those Roman terms, come on.
For the rest, apart from the fact that I understood little of what was being said, the problem with the series is that I laughed very little. "Tear Along the Dotted Line" had me laughing so hard, so I can't tell what went wrong here.
Furthermore, another aspect that didn't please me is the concept of neighborhood pride, incomprehensible to me, which permeates all the episodes and is the central reason that makes the story go on, when the real theme, the important one, is way too hidden, just a small space is dedicated to it in the last episode. I liked "Tear Along the Dotted Line" a lot, it was about universal themes. "This World" talks about events in a district of Rome that I struggle to understand.
BoJack Horseman: The Face of Depression (2019)
I've been an IMDB user for over 10 years...
I've been an IMDB user for over 10 years and I've never written a review or given a rating about anything. After this episode, and after bursting into tears, I felt the need to leave one. And this is it. 10/10