Netflix is placing poisonous masculinity underneath the comedy microscope.
The streamer has ordered Maschi Veri, an eight-part comedy sequence from Italy wherein 4 alpha male associates of their forties discover themselves dealing with their very own prejudices and the paradigms of poisonous masculinity in a world that’s shifting in the direction of social and gender equality. With out shedding themselves, they’re compelled to rediscover their place in society and their relationships.
Maurizio Lastrico, Matteo Martari, Francesco Montanari and Pietro Sermonti star as the buddies within the present, which is from Banijay’s Italian drama home Groenlandia. Furio Andreotti, Giulia Calenda and Ugo Ripamonti are the writers, with Groenlandia’s Matteo Rovere producing. Matteo Oleotto and Letizia Lamartire are directing.
Thony, Sarah Felberbaum, Laura Adriani, Alice Lupparelli, Corrado Fortuna and Nicole Grimaudo full the solid. Present is slated for a 2025 launch.
For Netflix, the sequence is its newest out of Italy that explores modern masculinity. It comes after Rocco Siffredi drama Supersex, which advised the origin story of Italy’s most notorious hardcore porn star. Netflix has had an workplace in Rome since 2022.
Groenlandia is behind the likes of function movie director Sydney Sibilia’s first TV drama sequence, Somebody Killed Spiderman – By accident Well-known, which is concerning the Italian musical duo 883 and for Sky Italia, and Antonia, the Fleabag-style Prime Video comedy-drama starring Chiara Martegiani and Valerio Mastandrea.
