It’s better than The Sopranos imo and I loved The Sopranos. It’s kinda the polar opposite of it though, no cheesy characters or cliche mafia stereotypes that you see in American mafia flicks etc... it’s just raw, incredibly realistic and as brutal as anything I’ve ever seen. It looks a million dollars as well and rivals any modern US series in terms of production quality. I know a couple of people who couldn’t stomach it though, they just found it far too bleak. There’s no good guys or heroes, only sociopaths who make Tony Soprano look like a care bear.
Is it better than The Wire ? This is something I’ve mulled over a lot and I’m going to have to say at this moment in time... not quite, but if it maintains the quality of the first three seasons it’s going to come very close.
For me it’s the second greatest show ever with potential to perhaps become the best depending on where it goes from season 4 onwards.
The bleakness is what I love about it.
Not one person in it, has any redeeming qualities at all.
It doesn`t try to dress them up as anything other than they are - murderous pyschos, who kill women, children, their own family / wives, as willingly as they kill their rivals.
The single word - Gomorrah, couldn`t sum the series up any better.
It doesn`t do the city of Naples any favours either.
It`s simply brilliant, especially when you think that this genre has been done to death.
