Stadt der Angst: New York gegen die Mafia

I loved the cinematography and the creativity with which they presented the whole documentary. The 70s video cutaways and the interviews in old cars was very creatively executed.

The story was well put together and the sequences in the middle which were retelling an old story of how a wiretap was installed was very interesting and creative. I really enjoyed the whole documentary and I was left very satisfied in the end.

Great work.

The show was fast paced with focus on subject matter. Although dragged to few episodes but it was ok as the focus was on the fbi and the mob and the lawyers. Thank God we didn't have to hear what the lawyers did when they were young etc.. lots of archival footage, audios and pictures. Overall entertaining.

To put it bluntly fear city is boring. Fear city tries to retell the events from the police's perspective in taking down the five mafia families in New York city yet it falls flat. The show is very short and completely lacking of substance, what little content was provided was often drawn out and simply not interesting. Multiple times the show wasted 10+ minutes retelling how some big time mobster's house was bugged. That's cool and all but it really falls flat when the viewer is never introduced to the mobster other than 'he is a soldier in this family and people fear him.' I like seeing the police perspective and all but not so much to the point where the crimes of the mobsters aren't mentioned. Fear city gives you just enough to keep you watching but little enough to where you feel like nothing has happened. It makes the show feel very dumbed down and perhaps it is. I would only ever recommend this to someone who wants to solely see the police side of things with little to no specifics on how the mafia broke the law.

I enjoyed this documentary series and watched it on one go. The amount of research that was done to make it must have been staggering. It's nice to know that the US justice system works sometimes. Huge respect to all agents involved in dissolving the mafia in NYC.

Worth watching but if you're a fan of anything mafia related, this doc series isn't really going to show you anything you haven't seen or heard before.