Watch First Look Trailer for New Sky Original Drama Blocco 181

Anyone who enjoyed Top Boy may want to consider watching Blocco 181, described as the Italian version. The eight part series is heading to SKY Atlantic, today we get a look at the series First Look Trailer.

Blocco 181 explores love and crime, set to the rhythms of rap and reggaeton, in a hyper-real, ultra-colourful and multicultural Milan. This new Sky Original series is a dark fairy tale, starring Italian rap-music pioneer Salmo, who also acts as music supervisor and creative producer.

Blocco 181 is the Milan that is never shown. A swath of the city’s outskirts centred around a hive of illegal flats, a place where suspicious, threatening looks are exchanged daily. On one hand, there are the kids from the block who protect the cocaine dealers. On the other hand, there are the pandilleros of Misa, who are hungry, and ready to give up their lives for their gang. As guns and machetes are brandished, an intimate, ionate love story comes to the fore. It includes Bea, a sensual and fearless pandillera; Ludo, a middle-class party boy; and Mahdi, a protective guy from the block. Their relationship is all about sex, friendship, and belonging to a new sort of family, which will see them making their way up through the criminal hierarchy together, as the Latinos and kids from the block battle it out.

Alongside his creative roles, Salmo makes his acting debut as Snake, the (armed) right-hand man to Lorenzo (Alessandro Tedeschi – Petra, Curon, Non Mentire), a drug dealer and childhood friend of Rizzo (Alessio Praticò – Il Miracolo, Il Cacciatore, Il Traditore), the neighbourhood ‘boss’.

The series is directed by Giuseppe Capotondi (Suburra) with Ciro Visco (Gomorrah) and Matteo Bonifazio.

Sky Original Blocco 181 from Sky Italia, coming soon to Sky Atlantic and NOW in the UK and Ireland.