Seasons 1 recap - this show needs to get better
Overall a decent show, i can see where they want to go and how they weave through the sitcom/drama/soap opera style show with a goodfellas type plot.
In many ways its like the show runner started with 2 scripts - a heavy mafia show and then a family drama but at some point they combined the two. interesting but not sure it works for an myriad of reason:
- Its slow af. Yes a lot happened, many murders and revenge attacks, truck hi jacks (again a complete rip off of good fellas, even down to the coats) and the FBI angle, aartie the restraunt (another example of a goodfellas rip off - we all know what is going to happen there).
- Being so slow its just not going to capture todays lucrative market
- The family stuff is boring
I assume that through the next season it speeds up with more murders and crime and racketeering, otherwise the show wouldn't have made it onto subsequent seasons.
I am a massive movie and media buff so i understand the techniques they are going for and here to give my 2 cents.
Would i recommend it to my peer group? Hard to say, would depend on if they can handle the slowness of s1. Immedialty the supercuts people post to youtube are more relevant and tell the story.
On youtube he best i have seen is Tony telling the man not to wear a cap in Aarites restaurant. Fucking mad. But in the actual show a total let down... But thats it. He tells him and walks off?? I was expecting a billy bags type scene. Blammo with the baseball bat.