Marianna Ciarlante March 2, 2023
The duo of Sicilian comedians Ficarra and Picone ventured into the world of television series for the first time last year after a long comedy career that spanned theatre, television and cinema. In fact, Netflix came in 2022 to revolutionize the approach of these two comedians, born artistically in 1993 and who today, thirty years later, are still recognizable and highly appreciated by the public. With Incastrati, the Netflix series written and interpreted by Salvo Ficarra and Valentino Picone, the two artists have confirmed themselves as great professionals of comedy, a story genre that they have been able to adapt to the times, habits and contemporary fashions without ever losing distort or adapt to the media needs of today’s society. And maybe therein lies the secret of the success of this series. Today Incastrati is back on Netflix with its second season, a final concluding chapter of a story that moves between robberies, romance, misunderstandings, friendship and many reflections on today’s world and the sweet and bitter contradictions of Sicily, a country that coexists, moves with a history, a landscape and incredible traditions, but affected by corrupt realities that are difficult to eradicate. The second season of Incastrati, which picks up the story of Salvo and Valentino where it left off at the end of the first season to enrich it with new adventures, does not shine like the previous chapter for a plot that is a bit drawn out, slower and with fewer twists and turns but to support the overall narrative and make it worth seeing there is the gentle and intelligent irony of Ficarra and Picone doing a great job of telling a Sicily and an Italy that they are in one find a delicate balance between a strong sense of justice and the awareness of being in the midst of total corruption.
A look back at the first season of Stuck
Incastrati 2’s intertwining gameplay is a bit more complicated to follow, since there aren’t exactly original plot implications and the inclusion of new characters that aren’t always necessary and with which you’ll have little time to get acquainted, but what these Netflix Series includes and conquers. is its creators’ ability to hide reflective ideas of great depth behind scenes of unique simplicity but effectiveness that make you laugh instantly but leave a bitter taste in your mouth over time.
In Incastrati 2 we talk about the mafia, the morbid relationship of mothers with their children, we talk about the obsession with TV series, health problems, the corruption of the law enforcement agencies, we talk about love but also about betrayal and we talk about journalism, a journalism , struggling not to be destroyed in its entirety by the emergence of false but compelling news.
Season 2 of Incastrati isn’t pretty, but it’s amazing in its authenticity and at the end, when the case is solved and justice served, it excitedly celebrates its victory over the mafia, sees the moving eyes of the police, and Citizens is gripping as well like looking into the eyes of two men who chose to live to make people laugh and who, after thirty years of career, realize that they have basically managed to make the lives of others a little easier and better more pleasant.
Reflecting on the journalism of Incastrati 2 should prompt us to examine our conscience
Result: 7