Miniseries · Netflix
This World Can't Tear Me Down
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Zerocalcare
Zerocalcare (voice)
6 eps
Valerio Mastandrea
Armadillo (voice)
6 eps
Paolo Vivio
Secco (voice)
4 eps
Michele Foschini
Officer De Niro (voice)
4 eps
Gianluca Crisafi
Officer Falvetta (voice)
3 eps
Ezio Conenna
Generic Male Voices (voice)
5 eps
Gianluca Cortesi
Officer Tonelli (voice)
6 eps
Alessandra Sani
Generic Female Voices (voice)
5 eps
Chiara Gioncardi
Sarah (voice)
5 eps
Silvio Orlando
DIGOS Detective (voice)
4 eps
Marcello Cortese
Generic Male Voices (voice)
1 eps
Stefania De Peppe
Generic Female Voices (voice)
1 eps
Valeria Falcinelli
Generic Female Voices (voice)
1 eps
Marcello Moronesi
Generic Male Voices (voice)
1 eps
Stefano Thermes
Nazi (voice)
1 eps
Ughetta D’Onorascenzo
Friend Pterodattilo (voice)
2 eps
Michele Mancuso
Generic Male Voices (voice)
2 eps
Graziella Polesinanti
Lawyer (voice)
1 eps
Sara Labidi
Amira (voice)
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How This World Can't Tear Me Down actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
This World Can't Tear Me Down reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Serialized.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The story
What it's about
When an old friend returns to the neighborhood, Zerocalcare wants to help him find his place back in the world. But what's the right thing to do?
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E01
What Belongs to Caesar
At the police station, Zero mulls over threatening posters in his neighborhood, stresses over an upcoming TV interview and runs into an old friend.
S01E03
The Beacon
Looking back on their time as teenagers, Zero and the Armadillo try to untangle why Cesare became the way he is now and attempt to reason with him.
S01E02
Like a Beached Whale
Zero remembers first meeting Cesare at an arcade in the 80s. Later, he dines at Cesare's house at his mother's invitation and tears down more posters.
S01E05
Four Billion Light Years
With the town hall upon them and violence looming, Zero wants to leave — but when Secco opens up about his troubled upbringing, he chooses justice.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E01
What Belongs to Caesar
S01E02
Like a Beached Whale
S01E03
The Beacon
S01E04
First to Denounce is Twice a Traitor
S01E05
Four Billion Light Years
S01E06
No Place For You
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- ZerocalcareWriter
Direction
- ZerocalcareDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
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