TV series

Zeno’s Conscience

1966 · 1 season

A slow, introspective plunge into a neurotic man's mind, wry and melancholy, like overhearing a confession.

Overview: Set between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Zeno Cosini, a wealthy Trieste merchant, neurotic and smoker, is marked by a conflictual relationship with his father and a chronic sense of inadequacy that drives him to seek help from psychoanalyst Dr. S.
How it feels: Melancholic, satirical, tense and warm. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Identity, obsession, family, guilt
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
obsession
family
guilt
addiction
Places: big city
home
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild