Suburra: Blood on Rome

Amazing acting, amazing characters, addictive plot! Rome as you've never seen it before. 9/10. A must watch for every mafia-related movie fan! Has a very interesting and underground vibe, and a new perspective of the different families of Rome. Its available on Netflix, there are 10 chapters. I'm definitely waiting for a new season.

This show brings an impressive combination of intrigue, tension, and complex characters, skillfully filmed in both the seedy and the beautiful parts of Rome and Ostia. The only problem is that the Italian is virtually incomprehensible, even with subtitles, which are often too fast to follow. Sometimes the issue is a very heavy Romanesco, other times I think it's youthful slang. But everyone, no matter their age or background, uses forms of the word "cazzo" in a breathtaking variety of parts of speech and inflections. I can't think of any profanity with that level of flexibility in other languages. If you are reading this, then this review made it past the IMDB mod bots, but I don't plan on employing my newfound knowledge elsewhere...

For some reason, Netflix is particularly adept in producing Mexican and Italian series. Suburra was just about perfect. I know some of it is not real world but if you suspend belief for a view hours this is a hugely entertaining show. Great actors, good story, Rome scenery is wonderful and the story moves along at a satisfactory clip. Finished season 1 in on Sat and Sun morning and have watched 2 episodes of season 2. Firefox tells me that Netflix is the number 1 site I have visited. It took Yahoo financial's first place spot without a sweat. I think Netflix is on to something good here.

I loved these mafia series about the conquest of the Roman coast Ostia by the Mafia. It is one of the best Italian productions I have seen since decades. Very good actors, romance, intriguing stories and nice locations around the eternal city of Rome. But be prepared on very brutal bloody scenes and lot of never ending dirty words. Congratulations to all the actors and the staff. If you like this genre then check out the other series Breaking Bad or Narcos. It deserves a solid 9/10. Don't miss it and watch it in original language with subtitles, you won't regret.

First two seasons were amazing but after watching season 3 I have to downgrade the rating from a previous 10 to a generous 8 because of season 3 failure. I don't understand why they have decided to end the series just ONLY using six episodes. Everything was solid from two previous seasons, so, Why? Shame on Netflix that knows how to ruin an amazing series. Stupid decisions to conclude poorly an amazing show.