Bang Bang Baby

I was quite interested- an Italian series which plays in the 80s!

The first part was a little bit strange but than the story developed fast ... Ingredients: pop art, good actors including strong characters, and beautiful women. Violence included in Tarantino style... and the cars of the 80's : BMW 7, Alfa 6, and many more. Great series. My compliments. Want to see more.

Certainly not for the "sanitized Inspector Montelbano" or "gritty Gomorrah" fans.

More in the vein of Killing Eve or Get Shorty or Fargo, noir in the Italian tradition where law and family allegiances are often in conflict but with an irreverent touch of comedy and characters. Well written, filmed and acted. A motley set of characters while a bit stereotyped, nevertheless, manage to pull it off with a straight face. While the subject matter is for mature audiences, it is fairly well sanitized without gratuitous gore.

Like a good series, it isn't about a single logical ending with a long way to get there. One never knows where it is going to go next with its twists and turns. It isn't a simple good vs bad story.

The lead character being a young teenager brilliantly portrayed is a refreshing take on the crime-comedy genre.

Watch it without any pre-conceived notion of genre or characters or period to enjoy it.

Italians could make great genre films in the past that are remembered even today and found by the new audiences every day. This can't be said for many of the new italian movies and serieses. However Bang Bang Baby is a big exception to this and it shows how cool italian directors and filmmakers can be. Just disregard the ominous name.

This series has high production values, big budget, fantastic cast, great 80's music and very very good script. It appears that nothing could go wrong with the first five episodes because I was completely hooked. I didn't have any boring moments watching it. I can't think of negative things to say.

Some parts are interesting, the character of the grandma is very cool but the protagonist girls has 1 expression and the general storytelling is fragmentary and counterclimatic. Wanted to like it but stopped watching at episode 2. Also, signature gay character that needs to be shoehorned in every modern series made my eyes roll at minute 5. Director wants to imitate Sorrentino but should have had a more Gomorra-like pacing and style to make this enjoyable.

A creative stylized approach that gets into the teenage protagonist's mind-frame of the twisted violent mayhem life involving the resurfacing of a supposedly dead father, a crime family with dirty secrets and the most evil of all - teenage puberty!

It is so riddled with cliche characters and situations that it works perfectly thanks to the performers (very much Felliniesque), art direction, wardrobe and technical brilliance. Not to forget a stunning compilation of music that is the soundtrack to Alice's wild ride into the underbelly of the corrupt and sinister forces of 1980s Italy.

Buon appetito!