If in recent years you've tired of watching "the Cartel" crime exposes it might be a hook to see something that came before? You might find something new about The Mafia as an interesting diversion. I imagine this is what the producers of "Fear City" are thinking as in remember when the government actually did go after crime and make much needed wins. This is what this three-part series is all about. Our NYC reduced to The Mob's piggybank and how it was taken back.
This, in spite of the multi-parts, is very much a quick overview that for what it tells could probably be edited much tighter. It doesn't go into the myriad violent crimes or rackets concentrating on mostly the construction and services industry that in hubris were taken over. We're given just enough of the methods and the actual folks involved to give both sides somewhat of a face. It doesn't go into but a very compact part of the major violence and murder as such and what is left after the dismantling of the five families is the vacuum in which The Mob refused to just go away. I guess the point is that "the fear" that was so prevalent in the seventies into the mid-eighties was squashed and a semblance of law and order was restored. There is, obviously, a lot more to this and within these limitations I'd say the series is definitely worth a watch after being clobbered over the past five years with the various south of the border cartel stuff. While the U.S. prosecutors and FBI did an outstanding job it can't help but be said The Mob did their own selves in as well. It is said crime never sleeps though and it's a sure bet The Mafia like a virus mutates.
This, in spite of the multi-parts, is very much a quick overview that for what it tells could probably be edited much tighter. It doesn't go into the myriad violent crimes or rackets concentrating on mostly the construction and services industry that in hubris were taken over. We're given just enough of the methods and the actual folks involved to give both sides somewhat of a face. It doesn't go into but a very compact part of the major violence and murder as such and what is left after the dismantling of the five families is the vacuum in which The Mob refused to just go away. I guess the point is that "the fear" that was so prevalent in the seventies into the mid-eighties was squashed and a semblance of law and order was restored. There is, obviously, a lot more to this and within these limitations I'd say the series is definitely worth a watch after being clobbered over the past five years with the various south of the border cartel stuff. While the U.S. prosecutors and FBI did an outstanding job it can't help but be said The Mob did their own selves in as well. It is said crime never sleeps though and it's a sure bet The Mafia like a virus mutates.