With
this post we start talking about web and TV series. And we must start
with the Italian most famous case of recent years: "The Lady".
The showgirl Lory Del Santo produces, directs, handle the camera, takes
care of the make-up and costumes of a series of ten episodes ( "but
very intriguing" as reported in the youtube’s channel) ended on
Youtube in 2014.
We can say everything against "The Lady" and everything we say. But to
us a little doubt that it is the usual trick of "so bad to have a
success", a bit 'it came.
Lory Del Santo has defended her work very often, also in a TV show with
another Italian king of trash, but do something so bad, so poor takes a
tough effort. Not to mention that the Lory Del Santo’s career has
developed with floozy characters and trash shows.
Wanted or not, the "trash-chic" as has been brilliantly defined gets
its result: a record number of views, an endless series of articles on
websites and pages on social. A good result that led to the realization
of a second and third series.
Paraphrasing Hunter Scott Thompson in "Fear and loathing in Las Vegas,"
who said the "Circus, Circus" is how world would be if the Nazis had
won the war, "The Lady" is how it would be Italy if Berlusconi had
continued to govern without scandals. The flaunt at all costs, a chic
status, including dinners and happenings in the sky lounge, including
shopping and personal trainer, sating terms in English a bit 'by chance.
Instead, as we know, Berlusconi's mission was aborted; the
Berlusconisation process is not finished but has generated hybrids and
ridiculous monsters. “The Lady” characters.
Males and females badly dressed should represent high society or at
least the most advanced business. Skirts, bikinis and personal trainers
accompanied by quotes that seem post of uninteresting teenagers on
Facebook. Not to mention the silly dialogues.
The plot of this series is not very clear. Ironic comments have
compared it to the most enigmatic works of David Lynch, thanks to a
story that apart explain who the protagonist is has nothing else.
The Lady of the title is a rich, young and beautiful heiress played by
Mexican Gloria Contreras, who has a business around the world. From
Milan to Miami, passing through Paris and London (of course).
She has business in fashion, cinema, and television with very
professional attitude but with various heart torments. Her love story
with Luc is troubled, but she, wanted by all men on the planet, never
betrays.
Ten episodes, we said, in which nothing happens. In which we see
several "scult" scenes like that of job interviews (oops ... let's call
casting) and in which there are the usual trash face of Italian TV,
like Costantino Vitagliano and even a “Big Brother”
contestant, Guendalina Canessa. Complete the cast models and various
personal trainer, who play very badly and are all (auto)dubbed a
In the disaster of this unwatchable series only saves the handyman
Chang Eastern name for a character that looks Pakistani. But in any
case he is the only one who plays the role properly, earning the esteem
of the audience and the creation of a spin-off dedicated to him. A
series that seems to have stalled after only two episodes.
"The Lady" is definitely a series to see but also to chew on. Because
it’s not clear whether among the thousands of views there are
only lovers of trash or there is someone who really cares about the
history and aspires to be like the characters of the story.
Anyway Lory Del Santo achieves success. And call her stupid ...
how "Mondo Cane" was surprising
and innovative, and why it has so much influence on the world of cinema.
