Lsecond season of Di4ri, Italian teen series created by Simona Ercolani and directed by Alessandro Celli is available today on Netflix. Set on the island of Ischiatells the story of a group of boys and girls who are going through eighth grade, a delicate moment of transition to more adult life. With the typical things of the age: first loves, illusions and disappointments, conflicts in the family, arguments with friends, the search and affirmation of oneself. Bullying, disability, learning disabilities, parental separation and the acceptance of mum and dad’s new partners are then added to these issues.
Di4ri 2: the plot
In the new ones seven episodes we find the protagonists of the first season: Pietro, Livia, Isabel, Daniele), Monica, Giulio. The new entry is added to them Bianca, Giulio’s cousin, a sunny guy who immediately fits into the group of friends, Katia, an unbearable girl, and Roby, a basketball talent.
We left the kids in seventh grade, there legendary second D who fights to stay in the Marina Piccola school, and we find them in third grade, still all together after the occupation organized to avoid the closure of their institute. We start on the first day of school of the last year of middle school. Pietro, the handsome guy in the class, is in love with Liviawho however, after a short affair, no longer looks at him because she knew that he had bet that he would win her over.
Livia, the “perfect little girl” gets involved in thefts and scams at school by her richest friends in Marina Grande. Giulio is engaged to Arianna but wants to dump her. Isabel, Pietro’s best friend, decides to go out with Rob. All the kids are plagued by a problem: how will they not get lost after eighth grade? Here, then, is the bonfire pact: they will all choose the same high school.
The Third D of the “Di4ri” series. (Netflix)
The story seen by children
This season of the series also breaks the fourth wall, and each episode focuses on the story of one of the boys, who tells the story of school events, and not only, through his own point of view. His personal story then becomes everyone’s story, with anxieties, the desire for rebellion and self-affirmation, dissatisfaction and small successes, illusions and disappointments.
Stories that have – he says Simona Ercolani who before preparing the series interviewed more than a thousand kids – the ambition to be true. «One evening, my grown-up daughter told me how, as a child, she suffered from the fact that children’s books and products were always very fake. They showed an inauthentic reality, far from hers and that of her friends. So it occurred to me to make a series that told the stories of the kids from their point of view.”
From left to right: Andrea Arru (Pietro), Francesca La Cava (Arianna), Liam Nicolosi (Giulio). (Neflix)
Di4ri 2: the protagonists (including the island), the guest stars and the review
The choice of setting Di4ri in Ischia it is not accidental. The island is seen as the metaphor of life of kids, who until middle school live as if in a bubble, with their friends, their habits and activities. The cast, made up of newcomers and kids who already had something behind them, works and is well assorted. Andrea Arru (Peter) began her career as a baby model.
Sofia Nicolini (Isabel), Andrea Arru (Pietro) and Flavia Leone (Livia). (Neflix)
Flavia Leone (Livia) has already acted in other films. Biagio Venditti (Daniele) has been a dancer and acts for many years (no relation to the Roman singer-songwriter), Sofia Nicolini (sabel) and Pietro Sparvoli (Mirko) are in their first experience. The guest star of the new season is the gamer Pow3r, in the role of himself, and the influencer Luciano Spinelli.
Di4ri it’s a real teen series. A joy for the eyes and the heart of pre-adolescents and adolescents who see the themes of their life exposed, in a non-trivial way and with an apt soundtrack. And with a message positive: it says that what happens in some phases of life is normal, that you can get out of some bad situations together with others. Just talk about it, don’t keep everything inside and trust.
Only note: a revision of the dialogues by teenagers wouldn’t have gone amiss. To give an example: you’ve probably never heard a little girl say “you have an original cut” while looking at her friend’s hair.
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