First Look at ‘Public Disorder’ Series About a Riot Police Team in Rome
by Alex Billington
December 5, 2024
Source: YouTube
“This is Rome. And Rome doesn’t retreat.” Netflix has launched a first look teaser for an upcoming Italian series called Public Disorder, which is set to debut streaming in January 2025. Not too long of a wait for this one. Sadly they tamed down the title – the official Italian name is A.C.A.B. La serie, or simply just the ACAB series. Public Disorder is an upcoming Netflix streaming series about a riot police team in Rome, whose personal and professional lives slowly fall apart because of the hatred burning inside each of them. Among rising tensions, the team members are called to take sides & forced to question the deeper meaning of their work and their own membership of the Department. Definitely sounds like a proper ACAB series that will make cops look in the mirror and understand their own anger and hate. Starring Julia Messina, Francesco Buttironi, Aiman Machhour, Marco Giallini, Valentina Bellè, Pierluigi Gigante, and Adriano Giannini. There’s barely 30 seconds of footage in here but so far it’s looking pretty damn good. It reminds me of France’s Athena at first glance. But hopefully this is more about how rotten so many cops are.
Here’s the first look teaser trailer for Netflix’s series Public Disorder, from Netflix’s YouTube:
A night of ferocious clashes in Val di Susa. A team from the Mobile Unit of Rome loses their chief, who is seriously injured. Mazinga, Marta and Salvatore’s team, however, is not like the others, it’s a team from Rome, which had to learn to contrast chaos & troubles with extreme methods as well as with the harmony of a tribe, which is almost like a family. A police family that the new commander, Michele, part of the reformist police, will have to deal with. For such police, teams like that are the symbol of an old school that must be refounded. As if the chaos that hits the new squad at the moment of maximum internal fragility wasn’t enough, there’s also a new wave of people’s discontent with institutions. Public Disorder, aka A.C.A.B. La serie in Italian, is a series created by acclaimed Italian writer Filippo Gravino, writer of the “Gomorrah” and “Romulus” series, plus the films Alaska, Fiore, The First King, The Land of the Sons, The Flood. With writing by Elisa Dondi, Luca Giordano, Bernardo Pellegrini. Adapted from the novel by Carlo Bonini. Featuring episodes directed by Michele Alhaique. Executive produced by Marco Chimenz, Matteo De Laurentiis, Donatella di Benedetto, Francesca Longardi, Stefano Sollima, Giovanni Stabilini, Riccardo Tozzi. Netflix will debut Public Disorder streaming starting on January 15th, 2024 this fall. Anyone interested?
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