OR you love it or hate it. Because Petra Delicato it’s a living oxymoron starting from the name: angular and sensitive, hard but delicate. An evident aspect also in the second season, available from tonight on Sky Cinema – as well as streaming on NOW and on demand. One chapter which brings us back to the impervious inspector who lives alone with a spiderwoman sarcastic and pragmatic who does not care about pleasure, but which conquers precisely for its chiaroscuro. Beautifully interpreted by Paola CortellesiPetra is a former lawyer who left career, study and two husbands looking for a different life – and a little misanthropic. Inspector to the Flying Squad of Genoais still convinced that love is overrated. But not for long.
Petra 2: hot meetings and family clans of Genoa well
Snakes in paradisethe first episode begins with a bang. The man Petra just spent one with hot night (and dismissed in the morning without even sharing a croissant) is found died in the swimming pool of his villa. The detail must obviously not leak out, or the case will be taken away. “Do you use apps to meet men?”he asks incredulously the ex-husband Lorenzo (Simone Liberati), made aware of the secret. “No, just to avoid knowing them,” replies Petra. The story revolves around the apparently stainless friendship between two high-ranking families, including law firms, land investments, elusive households, fertility clinics, wine tastings, unlikely witnesses, betrayals and intimidation. A network of cross interests in a world apparently perfect.
The fear of getting back in the game
They follow mini-spoiler which are still contained in the trailer. LorenzoPetra’s ex-husband who has remained a friend and confidant, has one new partneryoung cultural mediator. During a cruise galeotta the deputy inspector Antonio Monte (Andrea Pennacchi) has woven, albeit reluctantly due to the social divide, a relationship with the brilliant e wealthy Beatrice (Manuela Mandracchia). For the first time Petra she complains that she stayed the only singleeven if it is early for a radical change: «They are perfectly mine comfortable in my unhappinesswoe to whoever touches it to me ».
Desire for change
A new sweetness however, it hovers over the first episode, in which the inspector, after having wrinkled her self-esteem hit-and-run appointment, he begins to reflect on his own relational modalities, concluding that «… it scares us to admit that we have changed our minds». In this second series the space dedicated to feelings occupies a more generous portion, balancing better action and interiority.
All the characters live a change – also the spider of Petra, which comes out of the case walking around the apartment and causing no small disturbance – and Petra herself will experience two new love encounters: psychiatrist Riccardo (Sergio Romano), temperamentally very similar to the independent inspector, e the architect Marco (Francesco Colella), bi-separated father with four children happily dependent.
Andrea Pennacchi (Antonio Monte) and Paola Cortellesi. (Sky)
More balance and new locations
Having overcome some setbacks of the first season, still unripe in many ways, the script is more spontaneous, more brilliant tone and dialogue, with perfect timing and a consolidated feeling between the actors. The ingredients are better dosed and the impression is of greater compactness. Also there location acquires character: to the dark Genoa of the first season they act as a counterpoint new scenariosbetween villas of the upper middle class e chic outfits.
L’Genova’s aquarium remains the place of election for existential meditations of Petra, while unusual environments make the city portrait: astronomical observatories, nautical clubsi parks of Nervithe Museum of Modern Art, i caruggi dress up for the carnival. «I returned to Genoa with the enthusiasm of the first time, looking with the camera for capture the soul of this wonderful city»Declared the director Maria Sole Tognazzi.
A journey among the homeless, naziskin, oysters, cocaine and baby-gang
Between one beer and the other at Samarkand, a favorite harbor front place of Petra and Antoniovery solid in theirs friendship, inspector and deputy inspector will face a series of very different crimes. A chain of deaths among the homelesswhich will cost Petra a beating by the naziskin. A double murder during a crazy Carnival marked by masks super creepy. The theft of a gun – and not just any gun – that will guide them in the universe of baby gangbetween a chase ai Plastic Gardens and preparations for the wedding by Antonio and Beatrice.
Paola Cortellesi (Petra Delicato) and Andrea Pennacchi (Antonio Monte) (Sky)
Stay yourself in contact with others
Produced by Sky – Cattleya – Bartleby Film in collaboration with BETA Film, the new season is in our opinion higher than the previous one for rhythm and coherence. The choice of secondary characters from the theatrical scene and from the territory of Genoa increases the internal cohesion and contributes to the creation of a credible atmosphere. Petra doesn’t make definitive choices but, as they stated the screenwriters Giulia Calenda, Furio Andreotti and Ilaria Macchia, “… after all, the real victory is not closing the world out, but to be accepted for who you are. Even if it is Petra. And she is too smart not to understand that the road she has traveled here is only a shortcut. Now the hard work begins: remain oneself in contact with the others”.
A good product, enjoyable, cared forwhich stages a little exploited city from the screen, with a strong protagonistunconventional, at times irritating in its totality lack of filtersand characters well characterized that make you want to know how it will end. We await the third season.
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