No.I was halfway 3 – tonight there second episode from 21.25 always on Rai 1 – confirms the success achieved in the first two seasons. And the credit goes to a captivating script and a cast at the height, starting from his protagonist, Carlo Guerrieri, played by Claudio Amendola.
Which this year has also become director, its the first six episodes. While the last six are directed by Enrico Rosati.
Half black 3Claudio Amendola actor and director
“Having the dual role of director and actor in this third season was a great challenge,” he commented. “It’s not my first time as a director – Amendola is back behind the camera with the film as well The Cassamortariavailable on Prime Video -, but it is the first in a Rai series and in a role that the public loved very much “.
With his statement, Amendola underlines an objective fact: the appreciation by the television audience, supreme judge. The crime is a genre loved by Italian TV, but thereappreciation for Half black it arises from two elements which are added to those contained in the classic detective stories: comedy and sentiment.
«For me it was important that there was a lot of comedy this season, it helped us to balance the strong elements crime, as usual inspired by the news. “
The actor Claudio Amendola, protagonist of “Nero a mezzo 3”. (Getty Images)
The mix of registers
The comic register in fact allows the story of alternate between different registers and to give the story a veneer of reality, of truth. Which provides the effect of identification. The exchanges of jokes between the protagonists, more or less pungent, are on the agendajust like in any office among colleagues.
In addition, there are sentimental events to act as a further glue throughout the narrative. Here, then, the love between Marco Cantabella (Alessandro Sperduti) and Cinzia Repola (Margherita Vicario), as well as the friendship between Carlo and Mario Muzo (Fortunato Cerlino) and the relationship of trust created – among many difficulties – with Malik (Miguel Gobbo Diaz).
To these is added the relationship with his daughter Alba (Rosa Diletta Rossi)pathologist with whom Guerrieri collaborates and who grew up alone, after the escape of her mother Clara Soldani (Margherita Laterza). The union between Carlo and Alba is that between father and daughter, accentuated by a strong protective instinctdue precisely to the absence of the mother during the growth of the girl.
Claudio Amendola and Francesca Neri on the red carpet of the Rome Film Fest. (Getty)
Carlo Guerrieri, the pillar of Half black
The cast of Half black 3 proves to live up to expectations in its entirety. However, the character of Carlo Guerrieri gives strength to the narrative. A policeman all in one piece, but with a great humanity. A quality that emerges both in investigations and in the relationship with colleagues and also in the private sphere. And Claudio Amendola gives the protagonist a series of nuances that create affection in the public.
Carlo does not represent perfection. He is wrong like everyone else, but he is always ready to take responsibility for his own actions and often also that of others. He is protective both towards his associates – Malik, Mario and Cinzia – and towards his daughter. Furthermore, he is not overwhelmed by a thirst for power or the need for recognition. He chose the job of the policeman out of passion and does not risk being blinded by the limelight and the like.
Indeed, it is crossed by a strong sense of justice, which he transmits to the members of his team and which often clashes with the delays of the Italian bureaucracy. It could be defined an outsider or a good-hearted commissionerbut in reality it represents what normality should be: acting fairly without being rammed by those who row against.
Carlo Guerrieri, half boss half confident, it is an important and fundamental guide for colleagues, who trust his judgment both for professional doubts and for personal problems. In some ways it recalls the Giulio de The Cesaronithe successful series that saw him as protagonist from 2006 to 2014. As in the Canale 5 series, here too he plays the pater familias bonuswho tries to make the right or less painful choice, always animated by caution, diligence and wisdom.
Half black 3: the previews of the second episode
THE two episodes on air tonight they are entitled Just one step And Still beautiful. In the first, Guerrieri’s investigations focus on the death of Don Fabio, a priest in charge of a center for ex-offenders. At the same time, the police station tries to see clearly about Clara Soldani’s escape (Margherita Laterza). Carlo and his discover a trail: a Roman club center of the pink cocaine trade, somehow linked to Guerrieri’s ex-wife.
In Still beautiful spotlight on the murder of a girl, whose body is found on a country road. Investigators discover that the young woman was obsessed with diets and that behind the death lies the market for weight loss products.
At the same time, investigations into Clara’s disappearance continue. Forensics discovers that Soldani’s fingerprints are present in the Nika farmhouse. Finally, Marco Cantabella (Alessandro Sperduti) goes in search of clues to the Nite Owlthe local stage of the pink coca shop, risking running a serious danger to one’s own safety.
Claudio Amendola and the cast of “Nero a mezzo 3”. (Rai)
The plays of Half black
The plays of Half black 3 continue the success of the series, although they are slightly down compared to the previous season. The first episode, broadcast on April 4, 2022, totaled 4,611,000 viewers, equal to 21 percent share. The second season, however, had settled down on an average of over 5 million spectators with 23.18 percent share. Produced by Cattleya, after the linear airing, the series also landed on Netflix, where it is still available with the first two seasons.
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