Last King of the Cross

Decent cast each playing a personality of a real person in most cases. They look and sound just like the real people.

Cleary some of the details are fabricated or dramatised.

For an Australian based TV series this is world class.

Don't listen to the haters. Watch a couple of episodes, don't treat it like a documentary and you will enjoy it too.

Decent cast each playing a personality of a real person in most cases. They look and sound just like the real people.

Cleary some of the details are fabricated or dramatised.

For an Australian based TV series this is world class.

Don't listen to the haters. Watch a couple of episodes, don't treat it like a documentary and you will enjoy it too.

Am halfway through the show now and enjoying myself! The Cross feels like a seedy place where anything can happen and because the show is a fictionalised version of that era they can add in plenty of violence to keep it entertaining. The leads are both great, John played by Lincoln Younes as the successful businessman and Sam played by Claude Jabbour who you think is a stiff older brother but turns into a dangerous loose livewire adding genuine electricity to every one of his scenes. And of course always nice to see someone like Tim Roth onboard adding that extra touch of Hollywood to the whole thing.

Looking forward to more episodes.

First two eps were slow, however the following eps has been a rollercoaster ride keeping me on the edge of my seat. Intriguing plot, complex characters dealing with trauma and their masculinities. I love Sam & John's entanglements. Sam is a scary guy indeed. Tim Roth character is a bit of a larrikin. Not sure if he belonged in Kings Cross or moved to the wrong suburb (or country). Also, I read the book. There was no Vietnamese female gang leader, however I found the character Tien, a stand out. She's very intriguing and hard to tell what she's thinking. And I'm always looking forward to what happens to her and her tribe next. Looking forward to the upcoming eps on how she rises against John Ibrahim.

A downgrade remake of Underbelly made for the US market. Bland, very bland. Australian strip clubs made to look like boring US ones, with people throwing notes on the stage (lol) and strippers dancing in their underwear (lol again). And casinos in the Cross? (Lol even more). Even the cops in this show look half respectable. Aside from John Ibrahim trying to make some money out of his reputation, this series looks like it's made by people who were all born in the 21st century. And who never visited the Cross in its heyday. A very sad indictment on the state of Australian media today. (Lol) Underbelly did it so much better.

Yes it's good, works for where and when it was.

Still feels like it's not quite all there.

As there is no mention of Ibrahims driving days/nights with- George David Freeman (22 January 1935 - 20 March 1990) was a Sydney bookmaker, racing identity and illegal casino operator.

He was linked to the Sydney drug trade during the 1970s and 1980s, was named in several Royal Commissions into organised crime and had links with American crime figures. Freeman served several prison terms for theft between 1951 and 1968 but was never brought to trial for any of his later alleged crimes, receiving only monetary fines for SP bookmaking in the mid-1980s. Freeman survived a murder attempt in 1979, was married twice, published an autobiography and died in 1990 of heart failure related to asthma and pethidine addiction.