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Summary Alex Godman (James Norton), the British-raised son of an exiled Mafia man, has honest career as a fund manager and happy life with girlfriend Rebecca (Juliet Rylance) when he is forced into the international crime underworld to protect his family in this drama created by Hossein Amini and James Watkins (Black Mirror, The Take) and inspir...

Created By: Hossein Amini, James Watkins

  • AMC
  • Jan 1, 2018
  • AMC
  • Jan 1, 2018
McMafia
Season 1
Season Premiere: Jan 1, 2018
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
59
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 49 User Ratings
6.7
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Summary Alex Godman (James Norton), the British-raised son of an exiled Mafia man, has honest career as a fund manager and happy life with girlfriend Rebecca (Juliet Rylance) when he is forced into the international crime underworld to protect his family in this drama created by Hossein Amini and James Watkins (Black Mirror, The Take) and inspir...

Created By: Hossein Amini, James Watkins

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Episode 1 • Jan 1, 2018 • 57 m
Episode #1.1
After a tragic event, Russian exile Alex Godman is drawn into the murky world of global crime as he tries to protect his family from their dark past.
Episode 2 • Jan 2, 2018 • 55 m
Episode #1.2
Semiyon convinces Alex into a venture designed to harm Vadim's business in Prague. Meanwhile, a young girl is taken on a very different journey.
Episode 3 • Jan 7, 2018 • 53 m
Episode #1.3
A mysterious figure, who is not all he seems, reaches out to Alex. While Dmitri deals with grief, Oksana learns of a secret that could rock the family.
Episode 4 • Jan 14, 2018 • 59 m
Episode #1.4
Alex discovers a way in which he can attack Benny Chopra and Vadim in Mumbai. Alex and Rebecca announce their engagement, but she begins to think that he may be hiding something from her.
Episode 5 • Jan 21, 2018 • 56 m
Episode #1.5
Alex and Rebecca's engagement celebrations are disrupted when Semiyon is arrested in Tel Aviv, forcing Alex to fly out to Israel to try to expose his accusers. Katya unravels a shocking secret.
Episode 6 • Jan 28, 2018 • 55 m
Episode #1.6
Alex fears for the safety of his family as Vadim learns the truth about him, so he increases the family's security. Rebecca is torn and moves out as she struggles with the choices that Alex has made.
Episode 7 • Feb 4, 2018 • 59 m
Episode #1.7
In the wake of recent events Alex is forced to finally admit the truth. Peace negotiations between Semiyon and his enemies in Istanbul get underway. Vadim is conflicted over the violence he lives with and his love for his daughter.
Episode 8 • Feb 11, 2018 • 59 m
Episode #1.8

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
59
23% Positive
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77% Mixed
10 Reviews
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Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
59
23% Positive
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77% Mixed
10 Reviews
0% Negative
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70
Feb 23, 2018
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.
By Dorothy Rabinowitz FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 16, 2018
Alex, who has tried to live a by-the-book life as a businessman, gets pulled into a family crisis in a believable way that doesn’t feel like a ridiculous TV plot twist.
By Rob Owen FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 49 User Ratings
6.7
67% Positive
33 Ratings
16% Mixed
8 Ratings
16% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 49 User Ratings
6.7
67% Positive
33 Ratings
16% Mixed
8 Ratings
16% Negative
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10
acricketer
Mar 1, 2018
USA reviews seem to have panned this show. It is a little more sophisticated than Miami Vice or The Simpsons. European and World culture does not resonate with the majority US world view with unrecognisable characters that aren't either macho or vacuous. (even recognizable is highlighted as spelt wrong according to the US spellchecker that does not recognise English) It's jolly good and deserves a tickety boo rating.
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10
Rust_Cohle
Mar 1, 2018
Very good cast, great action, good plot. Highly recommended to watch. Critics are wrong.
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60
Feb 26, 2018
It's durably made, thoughtfully written and well-acted. It’s also ... methodical, to put it nicely. Others might call it plodding.
By Melanie McFarland FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 21, 2018
"Where is all this going and should I really care?" is the question that plagues the series, despite some compelling elements and a gifted international cast. In McMafia, the ambition is there but the interest to see it play out may not be.
By Tim Goodman FULL REVIEW
55
Feb 27, 2018
While there are strong moments in this globetrotting international series, it plays like a retread of earlier mob tales -- albeit with a timely tie-in to the Russians and money laundering -- in a way that represents an offer you can safely refuse.
By Brian Lowry FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 26, 2018
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
By Robert Lloyd FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 15, 2018
You'd think with all that scenically dizzying travel, the storytelling would be a little less inert. [19 Feb - 4 Mar 2018, p.15]
By Matt Roush FULL REVIEW
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9
AReedy
Jul 1, 2018
Great story line and very multi-national characters & settings reminiscent of Sense8. Only gave it 9 cause Episode 1 was a bit slow and the father should have got killed with his brother cause he was such a sad sack. I hung in for Episode 2 and it just got better and better and ended up binge watching.
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6
Al5421
Apr 27, 2018
The series is just passable ... they made a soap out of Misha Glenny's excellent book ...
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steveyme
Mar 5, 2018
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Q0paz
Jan 31, 2019
This is the best "drama" TV for a very long time. Yes it's dark and involved, like life sometimes actually is, instead of the fluffy or ultraviolent unrealistic tripe that is mostly served up as tv shows these days. The fact that it is based on a book written by a journalist shows.
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raykl
Apr 26, 2018
Great series .... Of course the critics don't like this series. But they are't from earth so who cares what they think ? Please renew for the unchosen
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