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I had to write this because many of those who have given series a 2 started with the premises that's a bad copy and paste version of Machos Alpha. Yes, clearly they bought the format - it's obvious and definitely not new. It's been done time and time again, especially from Americans making bad versions of European or Asian tv series. So this is irrelevant. It's definitely not as good as Machos Alpha cause it has very little in it that's typically Italian: take the housekeeper. She should have been of a different nationality, definitely not from a Hispanic country. And so on. So, the series missed a trick in terms of intercultural adaptation (something that Skam for instance did beautifully across most of its versions) but there's still time to do that in the second season and hopefully they'll make an effort-especially when we get a closer look at the world of Italian TV production.

The series is watchable and enjoyable at times, even managing to be irreverent. One thing that really annoyed me was Santi's attitude towards technology. He speaks of his daughter as some sort of tech genius whilst he acts all dumm about it. Problem is, he's 44, and that's a generation that's generally very well versed with internet. He behaves more like a 60-something year old. Same goes for questions of gender - he's way too "young", just like his friends, to be so emotionally and politically illiterate and immature. It just doesn't make sense at all. It's very cheap humour at times, though one of its merits is a rare stance against the moral obligation and inevitability of parenthood.