The least they could do is find actors with serviceable Italian accents
5 Reviews
Italian?
allen_bryant2 June 2019
This second season opening episode is even better than all of the first season.
Ed-Shullivan8 November 2018
Guaranteed success with actor Kim Coates as Declan deservedly taking the lead in season 2 with the absence of Vito Rizutto (Anthony LaPaglia). This is a sleeper crime series that I guarantee its viewers will blow up with huge ratings success. After watching Declan take the lead in the Montreal drug cartel, and as he trusts no one we see how Declan deals with any competitiors who even attempt to establish their foothold within the boundaries of his controlled territory.
We also get introduced to a new character in the series as Declan is seen driveing up to the prison wall when his sole living nephew Reggie Ross (Ryan McDonald) is released. Reggie suffers from some personal demons after being released from an 8 year stint in the prison, Reggie was previously raised in a number of abusive foster homes we get to see another softer, caring and nurturing side of Declan that we did not know he was capable of possessing.
I especially liked this storyline that rather than the normal cookie cutter crime story where the mob boss takes care of his young and beautiful consort, Declan wants to take care of his troubled adult nephew who was just released from prison and is heavily nedicated to relieve him temporarily of his disturbed parental abandonment issues.
Meanwhile Declan is making plans to expand his drug empire with the Mexican suppliers and he has a plan to control 100 perecnt of the Montreal drug empire until the sister and brother twins Christian and Teresa arrive from Italy with grand scheme plans of their father to expand their worldwide empire.
This is a fantastic opening episode in season 2 and I am more than pleased that Declan is now the boss who learns quickly that he cannot trust anyone other than himself. Declan builds his allegiances with each of the local criminal elements (motorcycle club, Irish, and Jamaicans) and his external drug importer from Mexico but it is clear that they must buy all of their drugs through him alone or suffer the consequences.
I am really looking forward to seeing more of season 2 which has started off really strong.
We also get introduced to a new character in the series as Declan is seen driveing up to the prison wall when his sole living nephew Reggie Ross (Ryan McDonald) is released. Reggie suffers from some personal demons after being released from an 8 year stint in the prison, Reggie was previously raised in a number of abusive foster homes we get to see another softer, caring and nurturing side of Declan that we did not know he was capable of possessing.
I especially liked this storyline that rather than the normal cookie cutter crime story where the mob boss takes care of his young and beautiful consort, Declan wants to take care of his troubled adult nephew who was just released from prison and is heavily nedicated to relieve him temporarily of his disturbed parental abandonment issues.
Meanwhile Declan is making plans to expand his drug empire with the Mexican suppliers and he has a plan to control 100 perecnt of the Montreal drug empire until the sister and brother twins Christian and Teresa arrive from Italy with grand scheme plans of their father to expand their worldwide empire.
This is a fantastic opening episode in season 2 and I am more than pleased that Declan is now the boss who learns quickly that he cannot trust anyone other than himself. Declan builds his allegiances with each of the local criminal elements (motorcycle club, Irish, and Jamaicans) and his external drug importer from Mexico but it is clear that they must buy all of their drugs through him alone or suffer the consequences.
I am really looking forward to seeing more of season 2 which has started off really strong.
Great Second Season!
james-7690829 June 2019
Personally, Just like Season 1, I got hooked and luckily got to Netflix the entire series in just two days! Declan is the Anti-hero that every one of us who has been pushed around by some a-hole secretly fantasizes, in the dark recesses of our mind to be, because he doesn't take crap from anyone, ever! He reminds me of Robert De Niro's Character Neil in HEAT. Cool, Calm, Collected and Vicious but only to people that deserve it.
The show even hooked my wife who generally doesn't like these types of shows and watched it. It's exciting, plot twists and hair pulling moments keep you on edge throughout the series secretly rooting for the supreme bad-guy bad-ass.
The show even hooked my wife who generally doesn't like these types of shows and watched it. It's exciting, plot twists and hair pulling moments keep you on edge throughout the series secretly rooting for the supreme bad-guy bad-ass.
Capisce italiano?
JeffreyPaden31 October 2019
Wonderful show, but the faux Italian accents have caused me to literally turn it off, at times. Kim Wright is excellent, and the rest of the cast are superb, but the pseudo Italian twins are cartoonish in their portrayals. Every episode I was hoping that they would be killed off.
Gave up within the first 2 minutes as it was clearly absurd
Fredex811 December 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Season 1 was great and whilst it clearly played loose with the true story it was at least based within the realms of reason.
Season 2 appears to be set in another dimension entirely where Declan has become some sort of psychotic demigod...
At least that is the conclusion I could draw from the first 2 minutes where he single-handedly kills off all his foes in an 80s action flick montage that looks like it is out of a Terminator movie. No clever maneuvering or plotting... just an absurd one man killing machine.
So now he is just some untouchable crime overlord who also does all his own dirty work? Yeah, no thanks. Season 1 stretched credibility a little in that regard as it was but it could get away with it because the core story was at least good.
Why they would depart from a good story into pure fictionalised nonsense I cannot fathom... besides of course that they felt they could milk this and pander to utter morons who will literally watch anything. At this rate season 3 could just be 8 hours of someone jangling a shiny pair of keys back and forth and still get rave reviews. I despair for humanity.
Season 2 appears to be set in another dimension entirely where Declan has become some sort of psychotic demigod...
At least that is the conclusion I could draw from the first 2 minutes where he single-handedly kills off all his foes in an 80s action flick montage that looks like it is out of a Terminator movie. No clever maneuvering or plotting... just an absurd one man killing machine.
So now he is just some untouchable crime overlord who also does all his own dirty work? Yeah, no thanks. Season 1 stretched credibility a little in that regard as it was but it could get away with it because the core story was at least good.
Why they would depart from a good story into pure fictionalised nonsense I cannot fathom... besides of course that they felt they could milk this and pander to utter morons who will literally watch anything. At this rate season 3 could just be 8 hours of someone jangling a shiny pair of keys back and forth and still get rave reviews. I despair for humanity.
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