DOC – In your hands 2: what does Blue Dog mean

Warning: the article contains spoilers on the eighth episode of DOC – In your hands

We’ve been wondering what it was for four weeks Blue Dog: we thought of a code, a proverb, something mystical capable of revealing something more about the death of Lorenzo Lazzarini. Instead, the eighth installment of DOC – In your handsthe most heartbreaking and the most difficult to watch as it was completely set in March 2020, revealed to us what Blue Dog really was: a simple puppet in the shape of a dog that the son of a patient admitted to the intensive care unit of the Ambrosiano Polyclinic shows at his dad intubated for the purpose of making him feel better. The Blue Dog – explains the little one – will watch over him and make sure that nothing happens to him: a very tender scene that the department of DOC – In your hands he assumes as a remedial motto for those difficult weeks, convincing himself that everything, in one way or another, would be fine.

However, this was not the case. The eighth episode of the series, in addition to solving the riddle linked to the Blue Dog, put us in front of the most traumatic moment of this second season: the disappearance of Lorenzo and, consequently, of Gianmarco Saurino from the ranks of DOC. Retracing the pain and fatigue of the hot month of the first lockdown, the series produced by Lux Vide manages to open a door to that world that we have seen told on television but which, fortunately, many of us have not seen: the ward collapsing, the doctors and nurses with red skin and marked signs of the mask worn for up to 14 hours straight and the pain of seeing patients die one by one, without being able to do anything to help them. Lorenzo was one of them: we saw him intubated to try to resist the virus. Then, taken by the attempt to help an intubated lady in severe respiratory distress, he implored Carolina (Beatrice Grannò) to give her oxygen tank to that of her roommate, hoping to save her.

This noble gesture, however, put an end to his life, making the characters of DOC – In your handsbut above all the audience from home in a kind of collective mourning who saw social media filled with messages of condolence as if a loved one, a close friend, an angel that we thought would watch over us for a long time had really died. The blessing of the Blue Dog, in Lorenzo’s case, didn’t work, but it has once again demonstrated the skill of the screenwriters Francesco Arlanch and Viola Rispoli in finding expedients capable of attracting the attention of the spectators by creating memes and amulets, a bit like those that crowded the works of Elsa Morante. Blue Dog has finished at the top of the Trend Topic chart several times on Twitter and, now that the mystery has been revealed, we can only agree with Pierpaolo Spollon, the prince of social media who warned us that, when we understood everything, we would shed many bitter tears. And it was just like that.

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