Club 57 is an Italian-American TV series co-developed by Rainbow SpA and Nickelodeon, which are both part of Viacom (later Paramount Global). The show was produced by Pierluigi Gazzolo and Iginio Straffi (creator of Rainbow/Nickelodeon's Winx Club), based on an idea created by Catharina Ledeboer. It was filmed in Apulia, Italy and Miami, Florida.
The show began production in 2016. It's a mix of Sci-Fi with Teen Drama and focuses on two siblings, Eva (Evaluna Montaner) and Ruben (Sebastián Silva), who discover their grandfather's time machine. They accidentally send themselves to the year 1957, where Eva meets an Italian greaser boy named JJ (Riccardo Frascari), beginning a Time-Travel Romance between the two. Before Eva and Ruben can get back home, they have to convince their grandfather Manuel (Andrés Mercado) that they're his future grandkids and wait for him to build his time machine. Oh, and they have to avoid a group of interdimensional Time Police who are after them. It Makes Sense in Context.
The cast also features Carolina Mestrovic as Vero, Martín Barba as Aurek, Jonathan José Quintana as Droide and Isabella Castillo as Amelia.
The series premiered on April 15, 2019 on RAI Gulp in Italy and its first season consists of 60 episodes. In Latin America, the series premiered on Nickelodeon on May 6, 2019.
Has its own wiki.
Tropes seen in Club 57:
- Bad Future: After Eva and Ruben alter the past, they return to their time, only to find that their grandfather is now a millionaire married to Vero.
- Circling Birdies: In one of the Krono Tips shorts, Miguel hears tweeting birds after bumping his head on a low-hanging lamp.
- Crossover: Not a full crossover, but Kally from Kally's Mashup cameos in the first episode.
- The Ditz: Isa, one of the RosaGatas.
- Girl Posse: The RosaGatas (Vero, Maca, and Isa).
- Hell-Bent for Leather: JJ usually wears a black leather jacket.
- Local Hangout: The MediaLuna Diner, where Ruben gets a job.
- Meanwhile, in the Future…: After Eva and Ruben travel back to their own time, scenes cut back and forth between the present and 1957.
- Nice Guy: JJ is one, despite his "bad boy" clothes.
- Our Time Machine Is Different: Manuel's FrankenTV, a time machine made out of an old television set.
- Time Police: Aurek and the other Guardians of Time work to make sure the timeline is not altered.
- Time Travel for Fun and Profit: In the past, Ruben sells his 21st-century technology to his grandfather.
- Time-Travel Romance: Eva and JJ.
- Villain Song: "Malalala" is a villain song for Vero.
