A speculative recap – SPOILERS
The opening scene might be a short film unto itself, and if it does not pique your interest, stop watching, because you just won’t get it. Alice Barone (Arianna Becheroni) sits in a bar in Bussolengo, Italy in the 1986 eating pistachios (possibly to compensate for a diet high in fats and sugars), drinking Pepsi, and watching a bubble gum ad on television. The ad contains a snippet from what looks like a Rock Hudson film from 20 years earlier. (Rock is being driven somewhere by a blonde in a sports car.) It also has elements of spaghetti westerns, and a pigtailed girl in an Indiana Jones-style hat blowing big bubbles. Alice walks out into the street and speaks the first line of the series: “Love is a bastard. First it charms you, makes you feel special. But when you let your guard down it hits you. And when it hits you it hurts like hell. Some jump off bridges for love, others turn into monsters. That’s it. Can’t do shit about it. That’s the way we are. It’s also in those ancient Greek stories Mrs. Fabbri baffles us with in class.”
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