Season 3 • Episode 8
LatestA teen comedy-drama set in an Italian public high school following an ensemble cast of students and teachers.
Acting
Massimo Poggio anchors the chaos with weary professor realness.
Production
Cramped school corridors create genuine claustrophobic teen tension.
Massimo Poggio
prof. Enea Pannone
Christiane Filangieri
Francesca Strada
Ivano Marescotti
prof. Gualtiero Cavicchioli
Lucia Ocone
prof.ssa Maristella Amoruso
Marco Bonini
prof. Antonio Giulio Poppi
Chiara Gensini
Martina Campanella
Giulia Elettra Gorietti
Alice Lovatelli
Greta Scarano
Susanna Gargione
Martina Carletti
Veronica Lopez
Federico Galante
Giorgio Gambino
Silvia Quondamstefano
Mia Zacchini
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
I liceali arrived during Italy's boom in teen-focused fiction, filling the gap left by aging soap operas with something resembling British kitchen-sink realism.
The show's opening credits — slow-motion hallway struts set to an aggressively catchy pop-rock theme — became unintentionally iconic meme material years later.
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