The recently-concluded five-season mafia epic 'Gomorrah' on HBO Max is one of the best-ever examples of the genre on TV.
Thanks in part to actor Salvatore Esposito’s portrayal of Savastano — a crime boss with a menacing scar on one cheek who broods, dotes on his wife and son, and who shoots to kill without so much as blinking — I’ve found myself unable to so easily let this series go, never mind its well-executed conclusion. For me, in fact, there will always only be one godfather. And it’s not the Hollywood version.
So much of this show, in fact, isn’t written so much as acted. And when we see the players wordlessly selling drugs from protected corners, hiding weapons, setting traps for rivals, taking refuge in pre-provisioned safehouses, it all hints at a universe of corruption and malevolence that, I’m sorry — guys who say things like “Leave the gun, take the cannoli” or whine that “You don’t even think to call me Godfather” have almost nothing in common with.
At one point, she shuffles into the foreground to confront a tied-up fool who had a hand in her husband’s murder. With jet black eyes, she glares at him and declares that he has not yet paid enough for his sins. Even before the final season debuted on HBO Max at the end of January, I was still thinking about the prior season’s finale for days after I watched it. This time around, in Season 5, we get a kind of summation of the rot in Genny’s soul, when one character makes a show of refusing to take a payment from Genny:Replies Genny coldly, “All money is dirty. And it makes men do such awful things.”Arturo Muselli, shown as Enzo “Blue Blood” in “Gomorrah” on HBO Max.
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