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10
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Critic Reviews
Feb 23, 2018
Season 1 Review:
It’s a testament to this series (created by Hossein Amini and James Watkins, and inspired by Misha Glenny’s book of the same name) that its seductions succeed as well as they do in overcoming its flaws. Among which we can count a pervasive tendency to moralizing babble bearing small resemblance to human discourse.
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Feb 23, 2018
Season 1 Review:
That a miniseries can create characters and environments that seem so tangibly real is an exceptional feat. Unfortunately, in its back half, McMafia seems to forget about the worlds it’s inhabited in order to focus on the rather frustrating characters at its core. It’s still a compelling journey, and many ways the narrative arc is an inevitable one.
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Feb 23, 2018
Feb 26, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Norton plays Alex with such committed blankness that his rare outbursts of emotion are almost humorous. He’s best during the action set pieces, which create the propulsive tension the series sorely lacks. But he can’t convey the motivations of a character who doesn’t have any.
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Feb 26, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The larger set pieces feel reasonably well populated and a computer-assisted heist (those shipping containers, mentioned above), accomplished by minor but vividly portrayed characters, is more convincing than such sequences usually are. What's difficult is caring what happens to most of these characters for any amount of time
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TV Guide MagazineFeb 15, 2018
Season 1 Review:
You'd think with all that scenically dizzying travel, the storytelling would be a little less inert. [19 Feb - 4 Mar 2018, p.15]
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