<i>McMafia</i> Is a Glum, Brooding Crime Drama
The new AMC series about a financier who gets involved with gangsters is extravagant but dour.
The defining quality of , which debuts on AMC Monday night, is glumness. A crime lord sits on a luxury yacht off the Arabian peninsula, as brooding and weary as Nietzsche pondering his book sales. A deposed Russian mobster swigs vodka out of plastic bottles and stumbles hysterically around rooftops. An Israeli gangster attends bacchanalian seaside parties with all the enthusiasm of someone filing their taxes. And then there’s Alex Godman (James Norton), the show’s hero, who proceeds to break bad with
