Even Gomorra has some fillers

The filler episodes of a series are the least linear there is and yet they often become the most important.

They can be because they manage to escape from the general mood of the series by setting episodes with tone and style completely detached from the series.

They can be because you try to get off the rails of the canonical narrative to experiment with something else.

They can be because you try to dwell on a character in particular by extracting him from the narrative strand and pushing him in different places, putting him in different clothes from the usual ones.

Gomorrah also has its fillers and they are particular fillers first of all because they don't seem to be.

They end up being so at a closer look because they come out of the comfort zone and experiment.

The crucial point is that with this type of episodes Gomorrah manages to increase the value of the series itself and the characters impacted by these episodes.

The third and fourth episodes of the fourth series are a plastic example.

We focus on Patrizia in the third and Genny in the fourth.

In the first case we see a Patrizia in new clothes, in a new position and also in places new to her.

In the second case we see a Genny who even flies to London, forced to face a very different reality from the one he is used to.

The plot does not advance and the 2 episodes are in fact fillers in this sense.

The demarcation of the intimate and geographical territories of the 2 protagonists is even clearer after this pair of episodes.

Patrizia is now "Donna Patrizia". She will try to use the carrot to tame 2 boys tormented and out of control.

It won't do much good.

The boys will be wrong again and at that point what Patrizia would have wanted to forgive Donna Patrizia can not afford to forgive.

Donna Patrizia does what Patrizia would not be able to do. The mask that she has to wear devours her inside and there are many elements that make us understand this. The flight of love, desperate sex, the desire to reestablish contact with her brother. Patrizia suffers in this new role in which she, more than anyone else, cannot make herself vulnerable.

The plot does not advance but the characterization of the character undergoes another 10, 100, 1000 brushstrokes.

The same happens to Genny, who this time will have to deal with a bureaucratic unforeseeable bureaucratic situation that will take him away from Naples and Italy in a desperate search for an international society to use as a screen for the construction of the largest airport in Europe.

Genny will appear as a fish out of water for almost the entire episode, stripped of the gangster's clothes to wear those of the businessman. No impact phrase in a place where the language to use is English and he will suffer in making himself understood. Then he will choose the path of total silence. A silence that intimidates those of us who know him but that doesn't frighten ruthless businessmen who are more and more determined to grab everything.

And then also here will emerge the character and temperament of a boy who has become a man, who, while wanting to emancipate himself, will have to resort once again to his criminal repertoire to secure a future and bring home the result.

Far from everything, far from themselves, the characters of Gomorrah emerge as men before they emerge as criminals. Their actions and reactions define them, but in these 2 episodes their most human and intimate aspects emerge, making them stronger narratively and making the narrative even stronger, though unpredictable more than ever.

Another piece in the mosaic of Gomorrah has been inserted and arrived mid-season it is already possible to clarify that also this season number 4 is a success and we can say it is a masterpiece without equal in the Italian sample and abundantly in the top 10 in the international one.