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Like so many other sequels, the second season blows, and it blows in a major way. The acting performance is way below average, the script is poor, the story line is predictable and rather childish. Let's hope it stops here. One main character ( Kim Coates) can't pull it off all by himself. The cast in the first season was so much better, with Anthony LaPaglia and Paul Sorvino. Why are those producers not satisfied with one good season, and do they keep on making those awful follow ups. Or spend some more money on capable directors and scriptwriters and not the hacks from season 2.

'The Sopranos' it is not!...I am not sure what purpose it serves. The acting ranges from mediocre to very bad. I keep waiting for someone to break out into song singing 'just one cornetto, give it to me, delicious ice cream from Italee'..To think Netflix paid for this drivel is astonishing. Hopefully it will disappear into that black hole reserved for 'made for TV series' A real 'bummer' of a production.

The writing is pretty poor but the acting (for more than a few) is just pathetic. It is chock full of cliche that you can see coming a mile away. They mixed so many things from the "great" mob shows/movies and threw them into three episodes.

The Son ruins the show. Come on folks write something original and can the idiot son and maybe the show can succeed.

Netflix has had a pretty solid run producing shows of stellar quality. And just when you think they are going to raise the bar even higher with a foray into the gangster genre, they make this. Everything about this is absolutely bad, but not soo bad it's good, it's just well, plain bad. Somewhere between a made for TV movie and a day time soap, this show languishes in entertainment purgatory, which is unfortunate considering the great source material. This awkwardness permeates every scene as the dialogue bounces from one mob movie cliche to the next. Bizarre cut scenes tailor made for commercial breaks and unevenly paced urban shots reminiscent of a poor mans NYPD blue only compound the shows problems. LaPaglia and Coates, whose performances in the Client were both equally disturbing and memorable, do their best to carry the burden but even Sorvino, the grizzled vet isnt enough to pull this one out of the toilet.

Definitely a disappointment after the likes of Stranger Things, Ozark and The Last Kingdom. Honestly watching this made me feel kinda stupid like I just polished off a can of dust off. Maybe next time Netflix.

A crime family series which starts quite well,but it has pacing issues,too many plot holes,not a complete story arc, some characters are not properly explained,so you don't feel anything when they die or do something. Overall you will feel no satisfaction completing this,quite a waste of time in my opinion.

Good actors like Anthony LaPaglia and Paul Sorvino couldn't overcome the poor script and so many of the characters were so one dimensional.

I imagine they must have spent a lot of money on this series, yet no one bothered to do even rudimentary research on the subject matter. S2, ep2, you don't cut cocaine with fentanyl, you cut heroin with it. Even the most cursory glance at newspaper headlines would have told the script writers this. Pathetic.

This show is so bad that I can't believe I actually watched it through - thank god it's just 2 seasons. And this comes from someone that loves crime/mafia/gangster stories. In fact I'm giving it 2 because season 1 was okay, and could have even been great, if they would only stick to what actually happened to the Rizzuto family. Instead they wrote terrible terrible story plots that only became much much worse in seasons 2. The plot development became so dumb and stupid that made absolutely no sense whatsoever. And on top of that the acting... Oh my god the acting was so cliche in the worst possible way, especially with the 2 ridiculous characters of Christian and Teresa. And the cherry on top - Kim Coates. I actually loved his performance of Tig Trager. I thought that performance was so remarkable, but now I realize that's just how Kim seems to behave in real life, since it's the same way he portrayed the role of Declan in this show. It was like Tig moved across the border and became a Canadian gangster.

Garbage even by this genre's standards.

Casting is cliche. Production is almost comical.

Don't waste your time.

Thoroughly enjoyed series 1, great acting and story line and my rating is torn between the two series. So this review is relates to series 2, with my 4 stars as an average over the 2 series. The characters and acting in this series was so over the top it became laughable, the Italian brother and sister and the character Luca were simply terrible. I can only assume some of the positive ratings have been written by people who were so absorbed and enjoyed season 1 so much they couldn't bring themselves to say anything negative about this. The writers and production crew from season 1 must have been under pressure to reproduce the quality of series 1 and missed the mark completely, it is truly terrible. I kept watching, hoping it would get better. Save yourself some time and watch something else.

Poorly made and acted. When are they going to make quality shows instead of quantity?? Could have been good.

No character depth, lacklustre performances. Script is beyond poor. If this was done in the early 90's it may have been ok. However, after the golden age of television, one expects more. There are no memorable lines or episodes. Music pathetic, even the wardrobe and extras lack character. How anyone can rate this above 4 is beyond me.

Boring ... boring .... boring. Total waste of time. Don't bother!!

Anthony L. Is a terrible actor. Enough to not watch it but I tried. Garbage.