100 years ago, prohibition went into effect

Re:100 years ago, prohibition went into effect by simplicio on Thursday January 02, 2020 @12:39PM (#21937588)

I really liked the first season, which gave a wide view of the intersection between political machines, the wealthy, mobsters, ethnic communities, WWI veterans, reform groups, etc that made up the prohibition era in a much more interesting way than a lot of treatments of the time, which tend to focus on the mobsters to the exclusion of all else.

Sadly after the first season, it pretty quickly degenerated into "all mobsters, all the time" show. Even the FBI guy joined the mob.

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Re:100 years ago, prohibition went into effect by MrZongle2 on Thursday January 02, 2020 @12:55PM (#21937789)

That was my take as well. I really liked it as a period piece, but after S1 it seemed like the showrunners kept some characters merely because they liked the actors. Michael Shannon was wasted in later seasons, IMO.

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