The Sea Beyond (Italian TV series)
The Sea Beyond is an Italian drama television series that first aired on Rai 2 on 23 September 2020. It was created by Cristina Farina.
The first season premiered in Italy on 23 September 2020 and ended on 28 October 2020. The second one debuted on 17 November 2021, ending on 22 December. The third series aired in the first half of February 2023 on the Rai owned streaming platform RaiPlay, and was later broadcast on television beginning from 15 February 2023, ending on 22 March.
Plot
Carmine Di Salvo and Filippo Ferrari are arrested on the same day in Naples, but they seem to have nothing in common: Carmine dreams of becoming a professional hairdresser, despite being born into a Camorra family from which he would only like to escape so he can build an honest future; Filippo, on the other hand, is a promising pianist born into a very wealthy family in Milan who is on vacation in Naples. The two teenagers are locked up on the same night and sent to the same youth detention centre. Carmine was born into the world of crime and knows its rules perfectly, but for Filippo, it's like having landed on another planet where even the language is something he struggles to understand.Both are immediately noticed by the inmate Ciro Ricci, son of a Camorra boss who has established himself as a sort of boss within the walls of the penitentiary. With the help of the loyal soldiers in his gang, Ciro begins to torment the two new arrivals. In the women's section comes Naditza, a Romani teenager who got herself arrested on purpose, not for the first time. She has been trying to escape her parents, who have arranged a marriage for her in the tradition of the Roma people.
Inmates have particularly difficult histories: some come from criminal families and have no intention of changing their lives; others have made mistakes because they were exasperated by abuse and mistreatment; still others, born into honest families, have been fascinated by the so-called "system" and the illusion of the comfort it would guarantee.
To try to make the inmates understand that it is possible to radically change direction and live honestly are the director Paola Vinci, the commander of the penitentiary police Massimo Esposito, the educator Beppe Romano and the various guards. Each of them, in their own way and with different methods, tries to demonstrate to the young prisoners that a different way is always possible.
Cast and characters
Main
Introduced in season one
- Carolina Crescentini as Paola Vinci
- Carmine Recano as Massimo Esposito
- Valentina Romani as Naditza Prigoanã
- Nicolas Maupas as Filippo Ferrari
- Massimiliano Caiazzo as Carmine Di Salvo
- Giacomo Giorgio as Ciro Ricci
- Artem Tkachuk as Giuseppe Pagano
- Domenico Cuomo as Gianni Russo
- Serena De Ferrari as Viola Torri
- Matteo Paolillo as Edoardo Conte
- Antonio Orefice as Antonio Ascione
- Nicolò Galasso as Gaetano Sannino
- Serena Codato as Gemma Doria
- India Santella as Serena Rizzo
- Clotilde Esposito as Silvia Scacco
- Ludovica Coscione as Teresa Polidori
- Chiara Primavesi as Anita Ferrari
- Agostino Chiummariello as Gennaro Fusco
- Carmen Pommella as Nunzia
- Paola Benocci as Amelia
- Anna Ammirati as Elisabetta Centola
- Vincenzo Ferrera as Giuseppe Romano
- Antonio De Matteo as Lino
- Raiz as Salvatore Ricci
Introduced in season two
- Kyshan Wilson as Kubra Hailo
- Maria Esposito as Rosa Ricci
- Alessandro Orrei as Domenico Varriale
- Filippo Soave as Salvatore Baldi
Introduced in season three
- Lucrezia Guidone as Sofia Durante
- Maddalena Stornaiuolo as Maddalena
- Francesco Panarella as Luigi Di Meo
- Giuseppe Pirozzi as Raffaele Di Meo
- Salahudin Tijani Imrana as Diego
- Clara as Giulia Bertolacci
- Yeva Sai as Alina Donetzka
Introduced in season four
- Luca Varone as Angelo
Introduced in season five
- Alfonso Capuozzo as Simone Caramitti
- Manuele Velo as Tommaso Aponte
- Francesco Luciani as Samuele Zego
- Francesco Di Tullio as Federico Notari
- Elisa Tonelli as Sonia
- Rebecca Mogavero as Marta
Production
The series was created by Cristiana Farina, who co-wrote the script with Maurizio Careddu. Produced by Rai Fiction and Picomedia, the series is filmed in the naval base on Via Acton in Naples. Other filming locations in Naples include Maschio Angioino, the Caracciolo seafront, Galleria Umberto I, the Rione Sanità and Montesanto districts, Toledo underground station, the Centro direzionale, and Posillipo.While airing the first season, producer Roberto Sessa confirmed that the second season was in production. Filming of the second season began on 19 April 2021 and lasted 19 weeks.
At the end of the last episode of the second season, the third season was announced, then officially confirmed in January 2022, the shooting of which began in the spring of the same year.
In March 2022, while the third season was still in the works, the decision to renew the series for the fourth season was confirmed.
In January 2023, when the third season was about to be released, the series had another renewal for the fifth and sixth seasons as well.
Release
The first and second seasons were first broadcast by Rai 2 in 2020 and in 2021, and the episodes were added to the catalog of the RaiPlay platform a few hours after broadcasting on live TV. The only exceptions were episodes 1 and 2 of the second season, which were instead distributed by RaiPlay two days before the broadcast on Rai 2.In May 2022, however, Rai lost the rights to distribute the series, which was consequently removed entirely from its video-on-demand platform. On 10 June 2022, the first two seasons of the series were added to the Netflix catalog, and only at this point did the series become a cult phenomenon, gaining great attention from audiences and critics.
For the third season of the series, however, the rights for broadcasting via streaming return to RaiPlay, which on 1 February 2023, publishes the first six episodes thus anticipating the first viewing on live TV. RaiPlay, on the same date, also republished the first two seasons that had been removed a year earlier.
On 13 February 2023, RaiPlay released the remaining six unedited episodes. On the platform it ranks at the top of the ranking of the most viewed on-demand serial programmes in a single day with almost 2.7 million views in 24 hours and from September 2020 up to that moment the fiction has had 80 million views overall.
During the same period, the first two seasons of the series continue to be popular on Netflix. The broadcast on live television of the third season began on 15 February 2023.
Thanks to the production and distribution company Beta Film, the series was distributed in France, Germany, Scandinavia and Spain, and is also viewable in Latin America, Israel, and the Nordic countries.