I wanted to be a rock star 2 is a gem (but Rai has to run for cover)

Those who parrot repeats that Italian seriality does not break through, does not dare and does not strike, trapped in a binary system in which only priests, primary officials and commissioners seem to be admitted, is likely to have never seen I wanted to be a rock star, a masterpiece of writing and interpretation that has culpably passed over in silence, living above all thanks to the word of mouth of those who discovered it and recommended it to everyone because so beautiful and so well written series today there are very few of them. Despite the title – ugly, of course, but inevitable since the fiction is freely inspired by the homonymous blog by Valentina Santandrea -, I wanted to be a rock star it is not about an aspiring singer who dreams of winning X Factor, but of a girl who became a woman too quickly who divides herself between a thousand jobs to support her two daughters, nicknamed the “barren” – neither beautiful nor ugly, thank goodness that Codacons does not watch Rai2 -, and the brother who has the same relationship with the studio that Vin Diesel has with modeling cream.

That of Olivia, the protagonist, is a slice of life that includes everything: motherhood, the desire to fulfill oneself, the urgency of not having regrets and, above all, the search for a love that seemed to have found in the first season and that in this new cycle of episodes will see her engaged in a long work of reconquest. One of the strong points of I wanted to be a rock star it is, in fact, the representation of a story in which we can all identify a bit by asking ourselves what we would have done in the shoes of this or that character: on the one hand there is Olly, brilliantly interpreted by Valentina Bellè, insecure, immature, trapped in the scent of an adolescence interrupted and crushed by the pressure of a thousand responsibilities falling on her head without warning, and on the other a quadrille of characters that revolve around her and who, through a singularity of their own, manage to help her to live his daily life hoping for a better future. The cast, in this series, plays a vital role because the writers – we mention them because they deserve applause. They are: Alessandro Sermoneta, Andrea Agnello, Daniela Gambaro, Matteo Visconti, Giacomo Bisanti – they have succeeded in the very rare feat of studying psychology and human nuance behind every face, even the minor ones.

Together with Bellè, special mention for the formidable Francesco played by Giuseppe Battiston, for the Eros of Riccardo Maria Manera, sublime in the role of a gay loafer who finally manages to make peace with his sexuality after breaking the heart of Martina (Margherita Morchio), and for Daniela of Sara LazzaroOlly’s best friend and “share Samantha Jones” from the small town of Caselonghe, in Gorizia, where I wanted to be a rock star is set. Drum roll, however, also for the wonderful grandmothers played by Emanuela Grimalda and Angela Finocchiaro, two superlative performers capable of doing justice to two very different women – one hottie who loves oriental philosophy, and the other superbly haughty rich woman -, flagships of a series that, in this second season – arrived almost 2 years after the first, a decidedly too long wait -, is embellished with two new entries: the extraordinary Anna Ferzetti, motorcycle teacher who will send Olly on a rampage for being Francesco’s new companion, and the charming one Francesco Di Raimondoa boy who will teach Eros what love is, encountering, however, the hostility of the repressed carabiniere who still does not accept that Eros has found, unlike him, the courage to declare himself.