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The new Italian series, shot in the genre of comedy, in some places, however, is quite serious, since tragic events happen, Vincenzo Malinconico is an unsuccessful lawyer / Vincenzo Malinconico, avvocato dinsuccesso, 2022, directed by Alessandro Angelini, so far season 1 of 8 episodes.
Vincenzo Malinconico (Massimiliano Gallo) is a rather odious figure in the legal profession of the small town of Salerno. Outwardly, producing the impression of a not very confident person, moving around the city with a fast seeding gait with an unchanged briefcase under his arm, who did not earn any money, suddenly turns out to be unexpected for himself and for others, the lawyer of Domenico Fantasia, known in the city as Mimi-Fat Man, with which one of the main chains of events in this film begins, including both crimes and his own actions. Thanks to this, he finds for himself and an unexpected defender from the team of the same Fat man - Amodio Tricaric (Francesco Di Leva), who will protect him more than once and in the future, since he often manages to get into dangerous situations.
His personal life also fell apart - his wife-psychologist Nives (Teresa Sapoangelo), a very extravagant and domineering woman, left him for the architect, but continues to date Vincenzo for the sake of sex, with which, apparently, her second chosen one is not very successful. But suddenly Vincenzo has another love affair - suddenly this eccentric draws the attention of the famous and beautiful lawyer Alessandra Perciano (Deniz Capezza) and then he interrupts sex relations with his former wife, which is extremely unhappy. Vincenzo also maintains good relations with children – both with the daughter of his wife from the previous relationship Alaja, and with their common son Alfredo, who also sometimes surprise him with their actions, and sometimes confuse him. He is also friends with his former mother-in-law.
This eccentric lawyer, in many respects, nevertheless manages to sometimes dig into the true perpetrators of crimes, no matter how someone tries to lead the investigation on the wrong track. However, this again does not bring him money, an angry ex-wife wants to demand a large amount of money from him, which he does not have, and even after earning some money once, he tears up the check, believing that he did nothing in this matter, at least he did not issue any documents.
The end of the season is completely open, a second season is quite possible, although nothing has been heard about it so far. The actors are good, Gallo has already met in other TV series and films. The series is quite good, the comedic presentation of material contributes to the fact that a gloomy mood does not arise, despite the crimes committed.