the_dL said:
Okem said:
What about non English language tv? Any of you down with some of those Scandinavian crime thrillers? Or Korean Doramas..?
I've been watching an Italian tv show based on the Gomorrah book. I've never read the book, but it's entirely separate to the film of the same name. It's been compared to The Wire in the way it follows organised crime from the street level on up. Although it's reach is nowhere near broad and possibly because it focuses pretty much on the action of a group of Naples mafiosa, it has none of the lightheartedness or humour you find in The Wire, so it gets pretty brutal. They're don't pull their punches, it's kill you, your entire family and anybody who happens to get in the way. There's no 'victim of circumstances' or romance of a ghetto businessman come drug dealer, just the grim reality of making it in such a, literally, cut throat world.
was that http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1242773/
we watched both series a little while back, highly recommended!
I was not aware of Romanzo Criminale I will have to check it out. The show I was talking about is just called Gomorrah, the second season has just started airing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomorrah_(TV_series)
