![]() Soon after, though, the talisman starts speaking to her apparently, when she cut herself, she anointed it with her blood, summoning a demon named Gaap of Misophaes. Duncan asks Nida to eat her lunch in the basement, she discovers a small stone talisman, taking it home without realizing its significance. After all, just that morning, she found the party’s logo spray-painted on her front door.Īfter Mr. She pictures strangling Keith like he strangled his wife, and she pictures smashing Vicky’s head through a glass case after seeing her pointedly reading a National Front pamphlet. Nida may be a deeply nonconfrontational person, but she regularly fantasizes about a version of herself that could stand up to the bullies she encounters daily - not just the bigots but people like Keith Holligan, a local customer who killed his wife a few years ago. That includes Michael Smart (David Shields), the conservative MP front-runner, whose good looks and focus on civility hide an agenda every bit as nefarious as the more outwardly hateful far-right National Front party. Everyone in Tipley seems determined to make it clear that Nida doesn’t belong here. She sells shoes at a store called Possetts, where she regularly ignores racist remarks from her manager, Vicky, who complains about the smell of her biryani lunch. Nida (Anjana Vasan) is a quiet young Indian woman living in the predominantly white town of Tipley in 1979. Like the previous episode, it’s more fantasy than science fiction - but unlike that one, the shift in genre somehow doesn’t feel out of place. It’s ironic because this is perhaps the least Black Mirror-y episode ever unlike the unusual “ Mazey Day,” which at least used paparazzi cameras as its technological focus, this one barely involves tech or the media at all. “Demon 79” is perhaps the only episode this season to really strike the perfect tonal balance: funny, but not at the expense of story, and dramatic without taking itself too seriously. Part of the reason this show is so subjective is that everyone is looking for something different when they watch it: To me, “ Joan Is Awful” is too wacky for this show, while “ Beyond the Sea” is too dour, but both of those episodes have their fans. Overall this forensic crime drama with touches of soap opera works quite well.Every time a new season of Black Mirror drops, there’s a discussion of which episodes are the good ones. ![]() The makers of the series adapted well their cinematographic tools using elements of neo-realist cinema in some of the episodes, or approaching the stories as melodramas for riches in other. One of the most interesting couple of episodes takes place in a nuns convent. The stories tend to take place in various social medias that the script authors and episode directors seem to know quite well - working people and immigrants living in the less fortunate areas of the city, or very rich people in their sumptuous villas. The only minus if this can be called a minus is that the lead actress Miriam Leone looks too young and too beautiful for her role. Most of the characters are credible and acting is good. The stories are well written and their solutions make sense. There are a lot of reasons to like these series. I've never been to this city, but I feel that I know it a little after having seen 'Non uccidere'. The stories take place in Torino and around the city. There are two plans of parallel action - one is a procedural forensics crime drama which finds its solution at the end of the second episode in the pair, the other is a longer thread also comprising a criminal element and involving the main character, police captain Valeria Ferro and her mother, out of jail after serving time for killing Valeria's father. The episodes come in pairs of 40-45 minutes each and I suspect that some stations may have transmitted longer episodes joining two series each time. There is a third season that I am yet to see but I need to find a good opportunity and some time. I have watched the 12 episodes in the first two seasons, broadcast by ARTE TV, which have been realized in 20. Cerebral crime stories are not what I would have considered an Italian specialty, and that is why 'Non uccidere' created by Claudio Corbucci is quite a surprise for me, and a good one, I should say. We do have of course the horror stories of Dario Argento, but these are a genre by themselves. It's quite an unexpected source for the genre, Italian cinema being quite famous for neo-realism, for comedies, for historical dramas or for the very personal and creative movies of great directors like Fellini. 'Non uccidere' may be the first crime series coming from Italy that I have ever seen.
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