A series that makes you cry and laugh at the same time is a rarity, and for this it becomes a small big television jewel. Especially if he manages to tell the daily life without stroking and excessive, except those of existence itself.
History of my family has arrived on Netflix at the tip of feet, without ultra marvelous presentations in some location catches social, yet it contains within itself more narrative and emotional power of all the other original Italian series of the platform put together.
If there is another series that has known how few other merge laughter and tears that descend on the cheeks, this is certainly This Is Us by Dan Fogelman. The story written by Filippo Gravino, flanked by Elisa Dondi and Veronica Chirra, seems to be the Italian response to that phenomenon. Not only that: it was able in the Titanic enterprise to create a small great serial miracle, even if less strombazzato.
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Like life, death, and everything in the middle. Fausto (Eduardo Scarpetta) is about to die for incurable cancer and therefore leaves provisions to each of the members of his enlarged family. Or perhaps we should say “acrocco d’amore”, as it is deliciously defined in the show: the mother Lucia (Vanessa Scalera), allergic to responsibility and stability; the younger brother Valerio (Massimiliano Caiazzo), far too serious compared to Fausto who jokes about everything, even on his illness, to survive.
And still the best friends Maria (Cristiana Dell’Anna), always in love with him, and Demetrio (Antonio Gargiulo), cooked instead of the woman. In the second season also the extraniated father Gaetano (Sergio Castellitto). Their world changes forever, but it is not said to be worse: they could find a new way of loving themselves and staying together. Fausto asks all that Free and Hercules children are not separated and do not end up with former wife Sarah (Gaia Weiss), who suffers from mental illness.
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History from my family is enveloping as a coconut and transfixing as a dagger in the stomach, just like This Is Us. Because it has the same sensitivity to mix dramatic levels and tones, never be pathetic and rhetoric, but true and genuine. It has a choral cast in the true sense of the term that really clicked from the first ciak. It contains characters that speak above and do not necessarily make the most discounted choice, but surely the one dictated by the heart; deep interpretations, heard, breathed at every beat.
In the Netflix series there are monographs dedicated to each of the family members. There are flashbacks that show the first and after the death of the protagonist. There is the narrating voice of the latter as a fil rouge that unites everything and everyone (although the true glue is love). There is the soundtrack so rock and familiar, there are the jokes and scenes already cult. The new entry Sergio Castellitto could arrive with all his interpretative power, phagociating all the others, instead it blends perfectly to the rest. There is a final in a state of grace: the series must have received the order at two seasons – perhaps even shot together – and has a final, in its own way, closed.
The only fault? Too many episodes – only six with the new serial format to save resources and be able to return annually – and too few seasons. Those who write would like many more, many more because the family that has “created” Gravina is now also ours, to all effects. And we’d like to go back tomorrow.
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