Best MAFIA gangster TV Series?

Well, drink turned my grandmother's father into a raving lush in that era...and it turned her into both a rabid abolitionist and the most egregiously pious matriarch I ever met.

I carry a gene of alcoholism from both sides of my family that makes us susceptible to the same ravages that ended my own mother. My brother saw in time, and went cold turkey 20 years ago. I only drink on occasion, or mild refreshment.

Cheers yourself.




Buuuuut, hey - how 'bout that Bugsy...whatta role model, huh.

 

Still think you enjoying crime family tv and movies doesn’t mean you support that stuff. Walter White is my role model but I’m still against that stuff.

 

The Sopranos
then, Gomorrah, the great Italian series

 

And just the fact that the point needs clarified is mind-boggling.

Jeez. God forbid someone catches you enjoying a war movie.

 

Your mention of family tv implies a general classification standard of drama, generally I stop enjoying when the balance shifts to glamourisation of individuals involved with organised crime. Stories dramatised such as Donnie Brasco are immensly enjoyable, not least because it hits the realism factor spot on.

 

Already mentioned Gomorrah, series about the Camorrah, the mafia like organisation based in Naples.

Another Italian series worth a mention is Suburra, based on organised crime in Rome.
Third and final season is about to screen on Netflix.

 

Underbelly from Australia is my new #1. It’s a true crime anthology series about real life Mafia figures but told like a Guy Ritchie crime comedy and narrated by a police officer. I much prefer crime series told from the police point of view with them as the protagonists.

 

The Sopranos

 

Third season of Suburra was entertaining enough, but ultimately disappointing. I think it was always flirting with the edge of credibility, but went over that edge this time round. Lost its way after the below spoiler, I thought.

Spoiler

Samurai was killed

 

I'll add Romanzo Criminale (set in the 70s/80s) to the list here, worth a watch.

 

Yes I would have to agree with that.
Good show overall but behind Gomorrah.

 

Another good series from Italy is Mafia Only Kills in Summer, which I guess isn't a mafia gangster series per se but, while taking an overall comedic tone, manages to show the pervasiveness of la Cosa Nostra in everyday life in Palermo in the late 1970s.

It's told from the point of view of the youngest son of a family of four (civil servant father, supply teacher mother, capricious adolescent sister). There's also his uncle (who's kind of on the fringes of criminality) and his girlfriend. There are two seasons and while the situations tend to get a bit repetitive towards the end (family member gains some benefit which they would not have got otherwise were it not for some either direct or tangential mafia involvement which tests ultra-incorruptible father's unbending position and the fallout therefrom; family member has to resist getting involved in romantic tryst with third party and the fallout therefrom), it takes in real events in Sicily of the time to good effect. Recommended. It's on Channel 4's catch-up service in the UK, so unlike Netflix you have to put up with a load of adverts unfortunately.

 

Sopranos for the win, followed by Boardwalk Empire.

 

The Gangster Chronicles was pretty good, from what I remembered. Centered around Bugsy Seigel, Lucky Luciano, and others. i think i saw that before i even watched the Godfather series.

 

Paule!! anybody who remembers, celebrates, and includes Wiseguy in a reply alongside The Sopranos has a lifetime of free beer at my house. easily one of my all time favorite shows. i'll be watching the whole series, again, sometime this year. the scene at the end of season one with Sharkey and Wahl in the bar is an all timer. especially with the original music. it does lose steam as the seasons progress but god damn i love that show!

 

Ok, who's the winner?

I say Sopranos.

 

That’s only because no one here has seen Underbelly. If you know how tough regular Aussie blokes are, just imagine their gangs.

 

how do I see this? sounds great! love Aussie blokes!

 

The Untouchables By Far.
Watch 8 Hours Every Sunday On Heroes + Icons Cable Channel.

 

It’s available to stream on Amazon Video.
Watch Underbelly | Prime Video

 

OK, thanks...don't do prime...how many seasons?

 

6 seasons. Season 1 is about the real life Melbourne gang war in the 90s. 37 murders.

 

I'm that way with SEINFELD.
Not kidding.

 

thanks...