The ambition was to treat the detective story with the same mechanisms with which Boris had treated fiction. But the results are very different
The adventures of the police station of Apulia continue, once the quietest city in Italy, so much so that the police are in crisis due to a lack of crimes. But, after the events of the first Cops miniseries (aired last year), now it looks like the city of death, according to the description of the local press. First a very precious cross is stolen from the church, then a local nobleman is even murdered. Commissioner Cinardi (Claudio Bisio) and his men (Pietro Sermonti, Francesco Mandelli, Giulia Bevilacqua and Guglielmo Poggi) investigate, but are also engaged in their own private affairs. Nicola, known as O’sicc for his physicality (Sermonti) and Maria Crocefissa (Bevilacqua) have separated. Cinardi seems attracted to the new prosecutor Catia (Gaia Messerklinger), and Benny The Cop (Mandelli) begins to miss a woman in his life.
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last time I stressed the difficulty of mixing genres, according to the classic lesson of the Police School: there is action, of course, immediately tempered by comedy; there is the comic, of course, streaked with yellow-pink. The result is that the colors do not always harmonize and the direction of Luca Miniero can rely above all on the professionalism of Claudio Bisio, while the other supporting actors go a little on their own. The other operation underlying Cops 2 is to repeat the formula of welcome to the South: the format comes from Sweden and is transferred under the sun of Apulia (Puglia according to the Romans); Bisio also comes from the North and has to play fish out of water, then managing to adapt very well. The ambition was to treat the detective story with the same mechanisms with which Boris had treated fiction. In all honesty, I feel that the outcomes are different. The insane component cannot be left alone on the shoulders of Mandelli, now the shadow of himself.
December 7, 2021 (change December 7, 2021 | 19:11)
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