Episode #1.8
- Episode aired Apr 8, 2022
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I'm going to review this as season one, though at time of writing, no second season has been confirmed. The show was heavily advertised in the UK, it being one of Sky's Italian productions, I thought it was OK, though perhaps a little longer than its story really has.
Bruno Testori (Luca Zingaretti) is the warden of an Italian prison. He and his guards keep things on an even keel by regulating and maintaining the drugs supply into the facility and with covert surveillance of the population. When is best friend and second in command, Iaccarino (Giorgio Colangeli) is murdered inside the Prison, Bruno attempts to investigate the murder himself, whilst stopping the real investigation, by Laura Lombardo (Anna Bonaiuto) from discovering too much about life inside.
I think my problems with "Il Re" were that it didn't go the way I wanted it to go. I was hoping for a tense murder mystery as we found it who killed Iaccarino and why. Instead, the show becomes a muddled story about a Muslim insurgent in the prison, mixed with B stories about Iaccrino's replacement Sonia Massini, who has always disagreed with Testori's methods and finally gets a chance to run things her way, and a particularly tedious thread about Testori's estranged wife, his relationship with their daughter and her health. It's not badly acted, and some scenes to have that tension I was looking for, but even though that all sounds like a lot of plot, and there are only 8 episodes in this first season, I still felt that it stretched out it's premise for longer than it should have.
It's also not particularly clear. It's only been a week since I finished it, but already I can't remember who killed Iaccrino, or why, and all I really remember is how the show ended - which is a big, "come back for season two" tease.
I probably would watch it, if one was made, but chances are I'll have completely forgotten this in a couple of months' time.
Bruno Testori (Luca Zingaretti) is the warden of an Italian prison. He and his guards keep things on an even keel by regulating and maintaining the drugs supply into the facility and with covert surveillance of the population. When is best friend and second in command, Iaccarino (Giorgio Colangeli) is murdered inside the Prison, Bruno attempts to investigate the murder himself, whilst stopping the real investigation, by Laura Lombardo (Anna Bonaiuto) from discovering too much about life inside.
I think my problems with "Il Re" were that it didn't go the way I wanted it to go. I was hoping for a tense murder mystery as we found it who killed Iaccarino and why. Instead, the show becomes a muddled story about a Muslim insurgent in the prison, mixed with B stories about Iaccrino's replacement Sonia Massini, who has always disagreed with Testori's methods and finally gets a chance to run things her way, and a particularly tedious thread about Testori's estranged wife, his relationship with their daughter and her health. It's not badly acted, and some scenes to have that tension I was looking for, but even though that all sounds like a lot of plot, and there are only 8 episodes in this first season, I still felt that it stretched out it's premise for longer than it should have.
It's also not particularly clear. It's only been a week since I finished it, but already I can't remember who killed Iaccrino, or why, and all I really remember is how the show ended - which is a big, "come back for season two" tease.
I probably would watch it, if one was made, but chances are I'll have completely forgotten this in a couple of months' time.
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- southdavid
- Jan 3, 2023
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