This is not a show about crime or the "mafia", it is a story about two families and especially two sisters who live with some criminals and have to cope with it. There is not much happening on the crime-side of the story and the title is absolutely misleading and wrong. It is no thriller, it is a family-drama about bad, stupid, sad and helpless people. And it gets really tiresome after a while, because Tom Hardy plays a major idiot-bad-ass and you know from the very first scenes that this guy will achieve nothing and ruin everything. And then you can watch the decline of two families ... Yes, the performances are all great. Great and depressing, because there is nothing in that drama that will lighten your mood or entertain you in a friendly way. And it is absolutely predictable, except for the very end, that contained a small surprise. Don't get me wrong: The series is not bad at all, no, but the label is wrong and I expected something else. I did not plan to see crying and desperate women who are doomed by a psycho played by Hardy. This is what comes out when women write about the "mafia". Sorry, but that's the sad truth.
