Fear City: New York vs the Mafia

As is the case with most Netflix documentaries this is a ninety minutes programme stretched out to three hours,what little interest remains after the first hour it just withers away,shame really,could have been good

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.

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.

I'm unsure as to why so many people on this platform are being so harsh to what I perceived to be a very solid and interesting documentary. A lot of people are saying. " Well it's nothing I've not seen or heard before." That may well be the case and it's the case if many documentaries on certain types of topics. I.e ww2 documentaries. They all are the same at the core because the events can only be described in so many ways. This documentary told the facts of the mob bosses in a very clear way and spoke with many of the key individuals involved in said take down. I'm not sure if this has been down before. So I can't judge. A lot of people also complained about the overly artsy style of having video of 1980s new york in the background and having videos of tape reels playing. Honestly you need something playing and breaks up from simply seeing the people being interviewed. My advice is at least watch the first 15 mins if the first episode. By then you'll know if you want to turn it off or not.