YMMV / Adrian

• Awesome Moments: The scene where Adrian fights the thugs as La Volpe (The Fox) inside a church in the 8th episode is pretty damn epic.
• Anvilicious: Anything remotely modern, updated or urbanized? Evil. No if, no buts, no arguments, no redemption: anything vaguely related to modern world is an abomination to beauty that must be eradicated, while all good rural places, churches and historical buildings must be preserved in centuries to come.
• Bile Fascination: It's so ridiculous that it has to be seen to be believed. Think of an old-fashioned singer writing a Self-Insert Fic with himself as an Invincible Hero and then making a badly animated cartoon about it, full of questionable and controversial aesops, along with random sex scenes. This is the result.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Arrogant rock star Johnny Silver, in dystopian cyberpunk future? At least year is not 2077 and he doesn't look lke Keanu Reeves.
• Narm:
  • When the Swiss watchmakers speculates about Adrian, one of them, with unnecessary and blatant drama, openly compares him to God, all while being perfectly serious. Pretty much strikes home on Adriano's ego...
  • In one episode, during a pillow talk with Gilda, Adrian lets out an "Esatto!" (Correct/Right!) said in such a goofy and ridicolous tone of voice that is completely ad odd both with the situation and with the rest of Celentano's delivery.
  • Morfin (Darian's CGI dog avatar) drops the bombshell reveal, while dramatically growling and turning into a wolf that... brace yourself... the Mafia International Inc.... is actually evil! Everyone reacting to it as if it was a genuine twist is the icing on the cake.
• So Bad, It's Good: Everything about this show is entertainingly bad, and it was the source of countless reviews and parodies.
• Spiritual Successor: To Joan Lui, an often criticized movie sponsored and willed by Adriano Celentano himself in which he played as the titular "Joan Lui", Jesus reborn in modern times to save humanity from the corruption of modern times. This time, Adrian has still amazing powers and he's able to change the world, but less as a Messianic Archetipe and more as powerful Shonen Manga Hero.
• Tainted by the Preview: The first promo of Adrian got a lot of attention... for all the wrong reasons. Besides being just cringeworthy to look at, the spot is a veritable Ear Rape with a very high volume compared to other commercials on Italian television (an amateur experiment revealed it to be on average 10 decibel louder than the other examined commercials). Cue all people remembering how they rushed to lower the volume or unmute the TV every time the promo kicked in.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • During Johnny Silver's Heel–Face Turn Johnny finds the original records of Adriano Celentano (that Celentano: the author) and goes to confront Darian armed with a gun and the records. Darian claims that if he ever killed him, Adriano Celentano will be unleashed in the world, causing Johnny to repent and side with him. Celentano's role in the show is never, ever addressed again until Ilenia Pastorelli, the host of the Adrian Show (the live-action show introducing the cartoon), claims that according to her Adriano Celentano found the way to ascend in the sci-fi distopia of Adrian as a saviour
  • One of Adrian's allies is a prisoner without a name and memories. Again, nothing is ever done about that.
  • Another one of the allies is a former politician, framed for a crime he didn't commit because of secrets he knew. Again, he vanishes.
  • Gilda herself has a mysterious scar on her neck, a left over from the times the Evil Government came to rise and imprisoned her and her parents. Despite being claimed that the scar had significance by itself, nothing is said again.
  • Gilda is told to be part of La Résistance. And nothing else, whatever Gilda did before the rise of Darian is not mention, nor what happened to the original La Résistance, that we can only assume got folded in the Darian Rebellion and gobbled by it.
  • Dranghenstein backstory as the strongest disciple of Anidride and Carbonica's dojo is basically mentioned in a three minutes flashback, used by Adrian to explain only that kicking his ass is going to be harder than beating his stooges. Right before turning him into stone with a magic lightning.
  • Adrian is implied to be a mystical guardian of every kind of Beauty: architectonical, natural and human, given powers beyond imagination to perform his duties. No one bothers to explain why.