Die Paten von Amerika

I enjoyed watching the series and thought it was well done and well presented. Most of the presenters were very good except Claire White who has a horrible voice and waved her arms around like a trained seal. Hard to believe she has any credibility for a docmentary like this. Other wise it was well done. I found it interesting as to what happened to some of these mobsters and who actually killed who. I believe that in the past some of this information was not known--eg. Sonny Black. Sad to see Rudy Giuliani today compared to what he was in that era amd the contribution he made to justice later to betray it all.

If flawed look at the five families of New York. For those that have taken a more than a casual interest in all things Mafia, then a lot of this will be part of the endless regurgitation of the same old stories that we've heard many times. There is also the same commonly held mistakes repeated here-the Gallo's killing Anastasia for example. Fortunately, they throw in a lot more rare footage here to render this show a bit more interesting for the long timers: we get Vito Genovese playing bowls, we get Joseph Colombo chatting away on the Dick Cavett show, etc. We also get a detailed look at Joe Massino, someone who I wasn't overly familiar with. So, worth a watch, but lets throw this energy at some lesser known mob stories: Chicago, Roy Demeo- I mean, even Carlo Gambino doesn't get a whole documentary to himself while John Gotti has a million. Someone obviously thinks these things are worth making, so let's mix it up a bit.