History Series / Boris2007

* DarkerAndEdgier: Allison is initially skeptical of ''Life of Jesus'' because she cannot see the "ghost", or the main character's trauma, in order to make the story more engaging. René and the screenwriters are initially left scratching their heads because they cannot see how to make ''Jesus'' more of a conflicted, dramatic character. The solution? Invent that Jesus had inherited generational trauma from Joseph about the Massacre of the Innocents.

* {{Exposition}}: When faced with particularly complex scenes, the screenwriters's solution is to completely renounce ShowDontTell ("we say it, we don't do it") and insert this. It comes to the point where Arianna shoots sequentially a bunch of scenes of gossipy townfolk discussing the main events of Jesus's life instead of, you know, property shooting them instead.

* BigBad:
** Dr. Cane might count as this. He doesn't want to stop the protagonists, but causes all the meddling that troubles them. [[spoiler: Fits the trope in season three, when he's actively planning to make Renè's work a disaster, see ScrewedByTheNetwork below]].
** In the fourth season, it's technically the Platform's Algorithm, but it has a human face in Allison Daltman, the European manager of the Platform. Like Dr. Cane before her, she's not actively antagonising the protagonists but keeps requiring edits and additions to ensure that their show is a worldwide streaming success.

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Medical Dimension'' in season 3 was supposed to be a realistic, edgy counterpart to ''The Eyes of the Heart'', with dirty, poorly managed hospitals, evidencing the real problems of Italian health care system. It didn't work and the show turned out to be another ''The Eyes of the Heart'' with more swearing. [[spoiler:And then René learns the truth about Dr. Cane's EvilPlan...]]

* DeconstructiveParody: Being a series about a troupe making a TV series, it criticizes and mocks in a very humouristic way Italian fictional works of the 90's and the 2000's and all their associated tropes, often on a meta level, showing why said tropes happen in these kind of fictional works, as well as the entire Italian television industry.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The three scriptwriters are never referred by name.

* HardWorkHardlyWorks: René, after finding out the truth about ''Medical Dimension'' and losing the last bit of faith in television he had, decides to purposefully go back to ''The Eyes of the Heart''.
--> spoiler: '''Renè''': We are fucking done with quality! We want ''shit''!

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: In the season one episode "''Like Lars von Trier"'', everyone is forced to work naked on-set to assuage Corinna's insecurities during the shooting of a sex scene.

* MusicVideoCreditsSequence: The main characters are shown around the set (or, starting with the second season, swimming around in Boris' bowl), with their name and job next to them, lip-syncing to Music/ElioELeStorieTese's song.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: In-Universe with "Medical Dimension". One of the screeptwriters hears random sentences from the other two talking about anything (except, of course, "Medical Dimension") and writes them verbatim. The plot is litterally whatever was happening in their life at that point.

** ''The Eyes of the Heart 2'' (supposedly the first one too) and ''Medical Dimention'' have three male screeptwriters, just like ''Boris''. They do not come out in a good light, let's put it this way.

* TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised:
** Although the series ends with its third season in 2010, the aptly titled 2011 feature "Boris - The Film" serves as the proper finale. Being it a theatrical release, it overlaps with [[TheMovie The Movie]].
** Subverted with the series's revival in 2022, with a fourth season being published.

* BigBad: Dr. Cane might count as this. He doesn't want to stop the protagonists, but causes all the meddling that trobules them. [[spoiler: Fits the trope in season three, when he's actively planning to make Renè's work a disaster, see ScrewedByTheNetwork below]].

* TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised: ** Although the series ends with its third season in 2010, the aptly titled 2011 feature "Boris - The Film" serves as the proper finale. Being it a theatrical release, it overlaps with [[TheMovie The Movie]].

* Every episode in season three.

* BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler: Karin and Cristina]] do not appear in season three, [[spoiler: until they are brought back for the pilot of ''The Eyes of Heart 3''.]] [[spoiler:Corinna and Glauco]] also come back, as does the InUniverse character of [[spoiler:the homosexual social worker played by René]].

* SelfDeprecation: ''The Eyes of the Heart 2'' (supposedly the first one too) and ''Medical Dimention'' have three male screeptwriters, just like ''Boris''. They do not come out in a good light, let's put it this way.

* TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised: Although the series ends with its third season in 2010, the aptly titled 2011 feature "Boris - The Film" serves as the proper finale. Being it a theatrical release, it overlaps with [[TheMovie The Movie]].

** "Use the Force, Ferretti" in season two, every episode in season three.

* WhamShot: Claudio telling Renè he's leaving and that "''Medical Dimension'' is a trap." Also, 3x13 ("Back to the Future- Part 1"), we already saw Renè [[spoiler: asking the screenwriters for "their usual shit", but we only get the true extent of his HeelFaceTurn when he tells what they are about to shot: ''The Eyes of the Heart 3''.]]

* BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler: Karin and Cristina]] do not appear in season three, [[spoiler: until they are brought back for the finale of ''The Eyes of Heart 3''.]]

** ''Dimension Six'', a show created to rival ''Medical Dimension''. [[spoiler: We find out, however, that they were never supposed to air together, they made both as quality fiction to show one at random and make it fail, to cancel the other.]]
** Season two (and three) shows the characters in an aquarium, with Lorenzo unwillingly breaking the glass in the end. In season three Lorenzo unwillingly breaks Renè's aquarium.

* RunningGag: The earl's ring is a main plot point in ''The Eyes of the Heart 2''. Despite no one knowing exactly why.

In February 2021, as the Star section of Creator/DisneyPlus prepares to debut in Italy, a fourth season of the show, which will be released exclusively on said streaming service, was officially announced to be in production. The fourth series, themed around a production of ''Life of Jesus'' with Stanis in the title role, will be released on Disney+ on October 26th, 2022.

In February 2021, as the Star section of Creator/DisneyPlus prepares to debut in Italy, a fourth season of the show, which will be released exclusively on said streaming service, was officially announced to be in production.

* ExecutiveMeddling: It happens a lot InUniverse. Many episodes are about a change demanded by the executives (more often Dr. Cane), like the introduction of a comic relief, the re-shooting of a scene to avoid UnfortunateImplications, or firing the makeup worker since [[BlatantLies the series was in decline because of the makeup]](in truth, she was simply the only employee not recommended by someone).

The show has had three seasons so far, having followed the production of the two seasons of ''Eyes of the Heart 2'' and later of the [[FollowTheLeader blatant ripoff]] of American {{MedicalDrama}}s ''Medical Dimension''.
There is also [[TheMovie a movie]], concerning the same crew involved in the production of the InUniverse movie ''La Casta''.

* KillEmAll: Due to the low ratings, they intended to end the story with a bomb destroying the hospital with all the characters inside. Except Giorgio, because his actor would ''never'' accept to play a character who is killed off, and conveniently gets out of the hospital one minute before the explosion. Ironically, this episode helps increasing the ratings and the show is renewed for another season.

* CastingGag: Stanis is known for playing Corelli in ''The Eyes of the Heart''. His actor, Pietro Sermonti, is known for playing a doctor in another italian series, ''A Doctor in the Family''.

[[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters Some of the characters involved with the production]] are:

** Orlando Serpentieri, a renowned actor, joins the cast. When Alessandro asks him why, after playing Shakespeare, would he do that, he answers honestly that between Shakespeare and ''The Eyes of the Heart 2'' there's something called "loan".

* ThePrimaDonna: Most of the actors in ''all'' of the InUniverse series, but it's mostly prominent in Stanis and Corinna.

In February 2021, as the Star section of Network/DisneyPlus prepares to debut in Italy, a fourth season of the show, which will be released exclusively on said streaming service, was officially announced to be in production.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Mariano gets sick of playing The Count because it's a one-dimensional villain without any redeeming trait, and lists the bad things he does in the show: killing, raping (or sending people to rape) and is obsessed with a share package; Mariano's anger then remains concentrated on the last detail.

* Stanis la Rochelle and Corinna Negri, protagonist actors of ''Eyes of the Heart'', [[ThePrimaDonna fickle and immature and too often the cause of the troubles of the day]], later partially replaced by Cristina Avola Burkstaller and [[MsFanservice "Thighs" Karin]] in season two (of both the actual Boris series and the InUniverse one), and by Fabiana Hassler for season three's ''Medical Dimension''.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The three scriptwriters.

* GilliganCut: Whenever René, Stanis or someone else is praising the scriptwriters' work (it must be noted that, in the first case, said praises are BlatantLies), we immediately get to see how they actually work. See RealLifeWritesThePlot for an example.

* SadistShow: Definitely. It's a CrapsackWorld where nearly everyone is cynical, corrupt, and sociopathic, and the extreme abuse of the ChewToy characters is PlayedForLaughs. Whenever a character shows good intentions (which is pretty rare), he always learns that BeingGoodSucks and HardWorkHardlyWorks.

* TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised: although the series ended with its third season in 2010, the aptly titled 2011 feature "Boris - The Film" serves as the proper finale. Being it a theatrical release, it overlaps with [[TheMovie The Movie]].

** The main villain of ''The Eyes of the Heart'' is the Count, who is always referred as such, presumably to make him more mysterious and less sympathetic to the audience.
** Martellone's comic relief character is only referred to as "the notary", never by name.
* EvilTwin: The heroic doctor Giorgio has an evil twin named Eric, who will later become useful to the plot.

** The protagonists of the series, Giorgio and Giulia, are just bland good guys with no distinctive traits other than being doctors, to the point that Giulia's actress can't even find a word to describe her. This doesn't stop [[SmallNameBigEgo Stanis]] from describing his character Giorgio as a "three-dimensional Anglo-Saxon hero" in an interview.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: To emphasize how bad The Count is, whenever there's something evil that he's made to the characters, it always include rape. In the end, The Writers have relied on this trope so much that it becomes hard to take seriously and René jokes that, by this point, The Count has basically raped the entire cast.
* StylisticSuck: From the trivial dialogue to the melodramatic BadBadActing, this soap is hilariously bad.

** RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: InUniverse. To emphasize how bad The Count is, whenever there's something evil that he's made to the characters, it always include rape. In the end, The Writers have relied on this trope so much that it becomes hard to take it seriously and René jokes that, by this point, The Count has basically raped the entire cast.