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  • 2018
  • TV-14
  • AMC
  • 2018
  • TV-14
  • AMC

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

  • 2018
  • TV-14
  • AMC
  • 2018
  • TV-14
  • AMC

McMafia

Season 1 Premiere: Jan 1, 2018
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
59
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 51 User Ratings
6.8
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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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Metascore
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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Metascore
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
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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Generally Favorable Based on 51 User Ratings
6.8
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16% Mixed
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16% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 51 User Ratings
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16% Mixed
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16% Negative
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Production Company:
  • Cuba Pictures
  • British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
  • American Movie Classics (AMC)
  • Twickenham Film Studios
Initial Release Date: Jan 1, 2018
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
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Awards

International Emmy Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
• 1 Nomination
British Screenwriters' Awards
• 1 Nomination

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