Suburra - La serie

Suburra is simply awesome. I was lured into watching it after some frenetic Netflix advertising and am glad I did.

This series, although not without flaws and the occasional cheesy indulgence, is highly entertaining and addictive. What's better than a double cross? A triple cross, of course! Watching the various factions (Mafia, Vatican, politicians and local crime families) battle it out is exhilarating. Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer!

Suburra has everything you'll need if energetic, fast paced entertainment is your thing. Watching the players sinking in the quicksand they've created is just an added bonus.

In summary I can say only one thing: Come on Season Two!

There are precious few film projects that are as well done as this series. #1 You are going to want want to watch the whole thing. #2 This is epic storytelling at its finest, the plot is cohesive, the dialogue extremely well written and the acting is first rate for every character in every scene. #3 The production values and cinematography are as as good as what you would expect in a golden globe nominated film. With all the money that gets spent on producing titles for television one wonders why more are not as good as this one. In its second season this series will draw you in and , for me , never disappoints. It is , IMO, a rare gem indeed. Competing and conflicting interests and desires from assorted characters in a complex plot that you can easily follow. It is a real thriller.

For some reason, Netflix is particularly adept in producing Mexican and Italian series. Suburra was just about perfect. I know some of it is not real world but if you suspend belief for a view hours this is a hugely entertaining show. Great actors, good story, Rome scenery is wonderful and the story moves along at a satisfactory clip. Finished season 1 in on Sat and Sun morning and have watched 2 episodes of season 2. Firefox tells me that Netflix is the number 1 site I have visited. It took Yahoo financial's first place spot without a sweat. I think Netflix is on to something good here.

This show brings an impressive combination of intrigue, tension, and complex characters, skillfully filmed in both the seedy and the beautiful parts of Rome and Ostia. The only problem is that the Italian is virtually incomprehensible, even with subtitles, which are often too fast to follow. Sometimes the issue is a very heavy Romanesco, other times I think it's youthful slang. But everyone, no matter their age or background, uses forms of the word "cazzo" in a breathtaking variety of parts of speech and inflections. I can't think of any profanity with that level of flexibility in other languages. If you are reading this, then this review made it past the IMDB mod bots, but I don't plan on employing my newfound knowledge elsewhere...

First two seasons were amazing but after watching season 3 I have to downgrade the rating from a previous 10 to a generous 8 because of season 3 failure. I don't understand why they have decided to end the series just ONLY using six episodes. Everything was solid from two previous seasons, so, Why? Shame on Netflix that knows how to ruin an amazing series. Stupid decisions to conclude poorly an amazing show.