{"id":5478,"date":"2023-01-10T05:39:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T10:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=5478"},"modified":"2023-01-10T05:40:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T10:40:34","slug":"how-amazons-the-bad-guy-breaks-with-italian-mafia-show-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/10\/how-amazons-the-bad-guy-breaks-with-italian-mafia-show-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"How Amazon\u2019s \u2018The Bad Guy\u2019 Breaks With Italian Mafia Show Traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luigi Lo Cascio stars as an anti-mafia prosecutor who vows revenge after being imprisoned on false accusations of collusion with the mob.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/the-bad-guy@Paolo-Ciriello.jpg?w=1296&amp;h=730&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><sup>&#8216;The Bad Guy&#8217;\u00a0@PAOLO-CIRIELLO<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure><p>The Hollywood Reporter &#8211; If there\u2019s one thing the world doesn\u2019t need, it\u2019s another Italian mafia series. Mob shows have become the go-to genre for the Italian industry, the global success of shows like\u00a0<em>Gomorrah<\/em>\u00a0(on HBO in the U.S.) and\u00a0<em>Suburra<\/em>\u00a0(on Netflix) having spawned several (mostly inferior) imitations.<\/p><p>But&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/the-bad-guy\/\">The Bad Guy<\/a><\/em>, the new mafia show from Indigo film and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/amazon-studios\/\">Amazon Studios<\/a>, is something different.<\/p><p>The series, which bowed on Amazon worldwide in early December, breaks new ground in how the mafia and the forces that fight organized crime, are depicted on Italian TV.<\/p><p>The series, set in a near-future Sicily, stars Luigi Lo Cascio (<em>The Traitor<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Best Of Youth<\/em>) as Nino Scotellaro, a former anti-mob prosecutor imprisoned on trumped-up charges of collusion with the Cosa Nostra. Furious at the injustice, he vows revenge. Over the course of the six-episode first season, Nino goes from very good to very, very bad, as he crosses every moral line \u2014\u00a0including resulting to murder \u2014\u00a0in his search for vengeance.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/amazon-prime-video-the-bad-guy-italian-mafia-shows-1235287673\/?fbclid=IwAR3n6DNSMEDS_KCRdtDI1YGi-rj-wJ3LxGtbnVLoANAlixd787Pr1ILAUmA\">Read more here<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luigi Lo Cascio stars as an anti-mafia prosecutor who vows revenge after being imprisoned on false accusations of collusion with the mob. The Hollywood Reporter &#8211; If there\u2019s one thing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1050,1051,1049,1052,1053],"class_list":{"0":"post-5478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-amanzon","9":"tag-anti-mafia","10":"tag-bad-guy","11":"tag-italian-mafia","12":"tag-show"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/bad-guy.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5481,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions\/5481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}