Suburra: Blood on Rome

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 6, 2017
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  1. IndieWire
    Reviewed by: Hanh Nguyen
    Oct 6, 2017
    83
    Suburra is an experience saturated with color, sound, and sin. Ultimately it doesn’t seem to offer any insights into the human condition except that being rotten is pretty much universal. But its depiction of a modern-day Rome with all the evil that men do is a raw and compelling one, uncolored by sentiment and nostalgia. This could be Netflix’s next big foreign addiction

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7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 32 Ratings

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  1. fimbulwinter
    Oct 12, 2017
    9
    Made an account just to review this show. Maybe that can speak for how much I enjoyed it.

    The easiest thing to compare this to is The Wire.    Made an account just to review this show. Maybe that can speak for how much I enjoyed it.

    The easiest thing to compare this to is The Wire. Layers of crime and corruption, with colorful characters and an urban backdrop that's a character itself. The parallels are there, but Suburra is distinctly Italian , with aesthetics and sensibilities that are unique in comparison to other prestige-tv crime dramas.

    The acting's good, the structure is solid both within each episode and along the whole arc of the season (though it falls apart a little in the final episode). The main characters are well developed and three-dimensional, with a trio of young men forming the axis of the plot. All of these young men are sympathetic and abominable, and their dynamic helps Suburra stand out.

    My favorite part, though, is how this show was shot. The views of Rome and its people, their lives and homes-all of it beautifully composed. Those windows into Italian life made the story all the more compelling.

    I really enjoyed this show, I look forward to season 2. Highly recommended.    … Full Review »
  2. ErsatzGood
    Sep 12, 2018
    9
    Stunning cinematography, superb acting by virtually every character, and one of the best soundtracks to a TV show I have ever heard.

    Really    Stunning cinematography, superb acting by virtually every character, and one of the best soundtracks to a TV show I have ever heard.

    Really hope there will be a second season. Highly recommended.    … Full Review »
  3. MichaelObe
    Oct 18, 2017
    7
    Netflix already has a bad experience of entering the national market: the series "Marseille" with Gérard Depardieu was negatively accepted byNetflix already has a bad experience of entering the national market: the series "Marseille" with Gérard Depardieu was negatively accepted by French and American critics. Therefore, the appearance on the Italian screens was preparing thoroughly and Netflix didn't skimp. Investing in the film "Suburra" in 2015, streaming service received a strong neo-noir mafia thriller from the famous Italian TV-setter Stefano Sollima. The series has a direct relevance on the full-length predecessor: the ten-part story serves as a prequel to the events of the film, but it works by itself, without obliging the viewer to know the full meter.
    It's interesting that with a sufficiently cliched approach to the first Italian TV series, Netflix is ​​able to turn familiar stereotypes about the mafia into curious advantages. Why if the clan feud, it is necessarily vendetta? Can not the natives of warring families make friends for the sake of the common cause? Or if the plot has a corrupt cardinal, then his ultimate goal will be hundreds of thousands of euros? Maybe he does not mind having fun with cocaine and girls "with low social responsibility"? Among other things, in "Suburra" each series begins with what it ends, and then appears the inscription "the day before," so like it or not, it provoked curiosity has to satisfy the entire series.
    "Suburra" is a modern parable about choosing your path, about the circumstances affecting it, about people who will meet and either change your life forever, or pass unnoticed. And the quintessence of the whole project, as it is not typical for Italy :-), is the family. Whom do we admit into our inner circle, and with whom are we ready to say goodbye without even looking? Eternal questions against the background of the architectural ensemble of the Eternal City.    … Full Review »
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