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Rating: Lately, I've been hearing about one of the many YouTube-stupor fads by idle nerds (like myself, though I'm not quite inclined to spread my creative nonsense), and with the summer apathy of long student afternoons almost dragging on while being supported by mom, not very inclined to constructive commitments and mostly dedicated to scratching at the less festive moments, I did have some time to check it out. Always promptly moved—as a good self-convinced hipster I am—to instinctively and annoyingly reject something that pleases more than 2 acquaintances or has more than a thousand views.
Like ALL expressive forms born on the web, it quickly becomes merchandise to self-serve the word-of-mouth that now seems the main source of cash flow and the future rather than that human abomination called copyright. Here the aim is to overturn the input-output of the variables and the feat is less Herculean than it seems.
6 episodes, including the purely introductory episode 0, which I admit I didn't have a hard time finishing.
It’s an experimental work, exuding a cyberpunk aftertaste from every pore, for how and where it was produced—Melito di Napoli, certainly not the Hollywood studios— an excellent job on visual effects and a concept that in its simplicity is successful. The acting level is forgivable, decidedly lacking if you consider Proxy (which mocks Trinity from Matrix but ends up mimicking Sara Tommasi from the adult film) it’s not difficult to discern hints and reinterpretations of various Lynch, Tarantino, and the Wachowskis themselves, always ostentatiously present in photographic and scenic references but with a decidedly ironic cut; it’s also a clear example of "Ars Posteriora," where the video artifact enters the production process solely thanks to consumer feedback—and I won't explain how this method was implemented, but I'll leave it to the viewing.
Therefore, I try to exempt myself from a logical plot that does not reside here, allowing myself a little inconsequential spoiler—but vital for the writing— that I hope won't lead you to premature cursing, you can make fun of and have intelligent irony on all the attitudes of the internet (easy information without arguments, the death of privacy and sense of modesty, commodification) to which the clueless consumer, lost in the mire of the web, is accustomed.
A small negative note is the cameo involvement of characters like Giacobbo and Caparezza, whom I would have avoided to confirm the independent brand label and in the end, they have little impact on the work's vitality.
Keep an eye on them, the Jackals.
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