No, We are legend is not Sea Outside (and that’s why it works)

It would have been easy to ride the wave of Sea outside setting up a new series on petty crime and youth problems, but We are legend has courageously chosen to follow another, and much more ambitious, path: tell the story of a group of young people interrupted, torn apart by the pain of a loss, bereavement or a complicated relationship with a parent using particular superpowers which no longer take on a salvific but oppressive value. We are legenddirected by the director of the first season of Sea outside Carmine Elia, produced by Rai Fiction and Fabula Pictures in collaboration with Prime Video and born from an idea by Valerio D’Annunzio and Michelangelo La Neve, talks about this: about kids apparently distant from each other but united by those wounds that adolescence widens because we all know how adolescence can be cruel and capable of altering emotions and senses. In a Rome that smells of the province, we slowly begin to get to know the five protagonists of the story, all forced to confront their fears and their deepest desires. The first one we meet is Maximum, played by the very good Emanuele di Stefanoan intelligent and self-contained boy who, following the sudden death of his mother, finds himself faced with hostility towards his aunt played by Claudia Pandolfi and with a power which, in the presence of strong attacks of anger , manages to attract around his hands a burning fire capable of bending metals and destroying walls.

Together with him in almost all of the first two episodes of We are legend There are Andrea (Milo Roussel)born with a heart malformation that forces him to always be under control to avoid any too strong emotions – we will discover later that he has the power to bring the dead back to life, other than Harry Potter’s resurrection stone -, and Marco (Giulio Pranno), a nice and easy-going boy capable of making light of everything: thanks to their closeness, the three friends are convinced that they have everything they need, even if the world around them is much more hostile and difficult than it seems. They will slowly learn this at their expense, together with many other characters such as Viola (Margherita Aresti), with whom the whole school is in love; Greta (the exceptional Sofya Gershevich), the lonely daughter of an ambassador to the Vatican, haunted by guilt for causing the accident that left her brother living in an irreversible coma – her power is to rewind time, perhaps the most interesting of all ; Jean, a fragile and fearful boy who allowed Nicolas Maupas to demonstrate to the public his familiarity with French – if you lived on Mars, Nicolas is bilingual; and Lara (the great Valentina Romani)a girl originally from Eastern Europe who is proud of going against the grain of the crowd.

Besides they also find space Lin (Giulia Lin), a second generation Chinese girl who lives with the bitterness of not being accepted for who she is – she has the power to change her face by transforming into whoever she wants; Nicola (the always granite Giacomo Giorgio), Andrea’s older brother towards whom he proves tenderly protective; And Will be (Beatrice Vendramin), a girl of brazen beauty that she almost always uses to achieve her goals. We are legend takes life and body from them: from the traumas and disappointments that the kids face and from the awareness of having powers on their side which on the one hand intimidate them and on the other invigorate them. We don’t yet know where the story will go but, right now, we can only be very proud of the idea that Italy has chosen to bet everything on such an innovative title as We are legendwhich focuses not only on young actors that our star system is finally discovering and accepting but also on a story that, unlike Rai2’s teen programs like The college And The Barrackshas been able to follow its own path without lazily following the pattern drawn up three years ago by Sea outside.