Netflix reported a few days ago through Bloomberg what were its ten most viewed original movies, revealing that for example Roma The Marriage story were not among the public’s favorites and that a movie with Mark Wahlberg released in March (Spenser confidencial) had been slightly more successful than the new Michael Bay and Adam Sandler. Also that The Irish Martin Scorsese was just above Triple border, the film that brought together Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac and Pedro Pascal.
The most seen in that list is Rescue mission (Extraction), Chris Hemsworth’s action film in India, released in May, which quickly confirmed the making of a sequel. But has that title generated more impact than Tiger King, The last dance The Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich? In this sense, given the rise of the docuseries, it would be worth a complete top 10 and homologated to the list of films, even with the warning that the company takes two minutes to count as a seen title.
Those three productions this year make up Netflix’s triad of docuseries that have generated the most conversation in recent months, with questions and revelations that have even transcended their release dates.
One on the eccentric Joe Exotic and his enemies, one on the last golden age of Michael Jordan and the third on the tycoon accused of abuse, seem to share the crime and the outlaws (in one of Jordan’s chapters, addresses the controversy with his bets in the 90s). A topic that makes the most of the new premiere of the platform, City of fear: New York vs. Mafia, who travels until the 70s and 80s to portray the time when the Italian-American clans had control of the city.
The production of the creators of Don’t f*** with cats -another success of the genre- is immersed throughout three chapters in the city dominated by the five families that shared power, the Genovese, the Gambino, the Lucchese, the Colombo and the Bonanno. With a domain that ranged from territorial to economic, these names marked an era for decades, but only in the years that the docuserie studies began their deterioration.
As you remember Fear city: New York vs The mafiaHis downfall only occurred when the FBI modified his strategy. In that sense, there is unpublished material that the chapters unfold, as well as Trump’s connections with the real estate business and the mafia, an inclusion similar to that applied by the docuseries on Epstein, with the US president flying over the story, but never being focus of deeper or revealing scrutiny.
Two are the names of the mafia that give testimony on the screen, Johnny Alite and Michael Franzese, representatives of the Gambino and Colombo clans, respectively, in alternation with the multiple agents who participated in the operations. Former city mayor Rudy Giuliani also breaks in, for his role in the Mafia Commission trial in 1985 and 1986, which would serve as a springboard to politics.
It is a journey to a time that continually arouses fascination and has been a permanent motif for documentaries and films. Without being a new theme, the one that explores the production, gives it a turn that makes it agile and, like everything on Netflix, the amplification of its resonance is assured.
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