Dafter the excellent success of last year on Sky, arrives tonight at 9.30pm on Tv8 They killed Spider-Man. Dramedy series in 8 episodes directed by Sydney Sibilia which retraces the story of the legendary 883 formed by Max Pezzali and Mauro Repetto. Two boys from the province of Pavia who, at the end of the 80s, created the dream of making it in music. They will come this evening the first 2 episodes aired and the remaining 6 in the next Fridays.
They killed Spider-Man: the plot of the two episodes of the series broadcast tonight 7 November on TV8
Max (Emanuele Costa) is a high school student from Pavia, shy and a bit lonelypassionate about comics and punk music. We are at the end of the 80s and, after a failure, the boy he spends the summer helping his father in the flower shopbut dreaming of a different life. At the start of the new school year she changes high school and meets Mauro (Matteo Oscar Giuggioli), an exuberant boy and full of energy who works as an entertainer and dreams of becoming a famous DJ.
The two are opposites in everything, but discover they share the same passion for music. Max, meanwhile, also knows Silvia (Ludovica Barbarito), the most beautiful girl in the cityto whom he promised to write a song. Visiting each other more and more assiduously, Max and Mauro start composing songs together and Max, thanks to his friend, finds it the courage to write lyrics and sing his songs for the first time.
A short time later, Mauro discovers that the famous American DJ Gozzard has arrived in the city (Pablo Sandstorm) and absolutely wants to hand them their mixtape. The boys, after a thousand vicissitudes, finally manage to meet him and they make him listen to the cassette where Max recorded the famous song for Silvia. The DJ sees potential in the song and in that strange couple, encouraging them to cultivate their passion. So Mauro decides to get rid of his DJ equipment and buy a sequencer to continue writing songs with his friend.
A compelling series full of nostalgia for the legendary 90s
Directed by Sydney Sibilia, They killed Spider-Man it’s a series that recounts the birth and rise of the 883 starting from the province of Pavia of the 80s and 90s. Through a light tone, but never superficial, the narrative focuses on the dreams, friendships and disappointments of a generation who was trying to build a different future for himself. Especially in small provincial towns.
Dreamy and with a setting with attention to the smallest details, They killed Spider-Man it returns an authentic atmosphere full of nostalgia. And Sibilia doesn’t miss a shot, maintaining a lively pace and alternating moments of irony and melancholy. The two young protagonists are also perfect that make it credible the complicity between Max Pezzali and Mauro Repettomanaging to convey enthusiasm and vulnerability.
The soundtrack is naturally the beating heart of the seriescapable of immediately evoking memories and emotions and, although some situations are perhaps a little predictable, they do not detract from the story. More than just a musical biography, They killed Spider-Man it becomes like this an affectionate portrait of adolescence and a journey into the music and the Italian provinces of those years.
A scene from the series “They Killed Spider-Man” (Sky)
They killed Spider-Man: Will there be a season 2? Yes.
Given the immediate success of the series, the second season was announced shortly after it aired on Sky Of They killed Spider-Man from the title North South West East. In fact, it was the first received extraordinarily by the publicrecording over 2 million viewers in three weeks and becoming so the most watched Sky Original series of the last eight yearswith a popularity comparable only to that of Gomorrah.
The protagonists Elia Nuzzolo and Matteo Oscar Giuggioli have been confirmed last August, via an Instagram postdirector Sydney Sibilia has announced the start of filming. With regard to the broadcast instead, we are already talking about theautumn of 2026. In the new episodes they also come back Ludovica Barbarito (Silvia) e Davide Calgaro (Cisco), joined on set by the new entries in the cast Gaia Zampighi (Michela Rossini) e Rosa Barbolini (Catherine).
The series will resume rows left pending in the previous season. Max and Mauro are in fact realizing their dream: to be first in the rankings in 1993 but looking at it from the inside, the life of pop stars is as incredible as it is messed up. In fact, something begins to change between Max and Mauro and the great adventure they experience it will take them to the glittering Milan of fashion but also to the America they dreamed of as kids. Once they get there, will they truly find themselves?