Magic City!

Has the new season of Magic City started? If so how is it? Please no spoilers!

Second season starts June 14. Very good show!

Still has not hit our shores yet.

The show...or the bodies?

Either

Watched the season opener last night. It was ok but hopefully it will pick up the pace as the season gets going. James Caan and Esai Morales are supposed to be joining the cast this season so things should get interesting, at least i hope they do. I want more gangster stuff and less of the other personal drama crap.

The season opener was good, the rest of the season has some good potential plots in the works it seems. The first season felt like ages ago that I forgot what had happened, luckily the quick summary in the beginning was helpful. I think the show tries (and does) to strike a good medium between the gangster stuff and the personal lives of the characters, kind of like The Sopranos. So far so good IMO.

Yeah Magic City is pretty damn groovy it has that nostalgic feel

I think James Caan will show up on next weeks episode. I think thats who Ben was talking to on the phone at the end of this weeks show.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/james-caan-sy-berman-magic-city-article-1.1370769

James Caan joins Starz mob series 'Magic City' as Sy Berman, mentor of Ben Diamond

Danny Huston, who plays Diamond, says Ben and Sy have a father-son relationship


By David Hinckley / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
June 13, 2013





THIS TIME, says James Caan with a laugh, “I pretty much am the godfather.”

Caan, whose long and versatile movie career still comes back for many fans to his brutal execution at the Long Beach Causeway toll booth in the original 1972 “Godfather,” returns to the mob world this season in the Starz series “Magic City,” whose second season premieres Friday night at 9.

Caan plays Sy Berman, a Chicago guy who turns out to have been the mob mentor of Ben Diamond (Danny Huston).

Diamond, who is called “The Butcher”and does his best to live up to the name, has seemed to be the big mob shark in 1959 Miami, where “Magic City” is set.

Now, behind him in the water, up swims a bigger shark.

“I had a good time on it,” says Caan. “It’s always good to be the guy in charge, and I don’t think there’s anyone bigger here than me — though Sy’s from Chicago, so you never know.”

Caan says he gets a lot of scripts he can’t use these days. “This is the one that made me say, ‘Wow!’”

And then he did a little tweaking. “Magic City” creator Mitch Glazer “ had written the role a little differently,” Caan says, “as a business guy with a stogie. He let me do some improvising.”

Huston says Ben and Sy have a “father and son relationship,” and Sy visits less to take things over than to offer some career advice.

“Sy comes to see him to tell him to control himself,” says Huston.

So the arrival of Sy doesn’t lessen the menace of Diamond, who is locked in a potentially lethal struggle with Ike Evans (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) for control of Ike’s Miramar Playa hotel.

Ben employs both blunt and subtle power, matter of factly ordering murders at the same time he’s charming Ike’s son Steve (Steven Strait).

“One of the things that makes playing Ben so interesting,” says Huston, “is that he’s not conflicted at all. He is what he is and he knows it. To him, this is just the way things work and he’s fine with it. There’s no apologizing.”

In fact, suggests Huston, Ben is so comfortable with his life that “there’s almost a Runyonesque quality to him sometimes,” like a character from “Guys and Dolls.”

For all his confidence and power, however, Ben has problems.

Fidel Castro has just taken over Cuba and one of his first acts was to close the casinos and nightclubs, which had been the mob’s cash engine for years.

That’s one reason Ben tries to move in on Ike, as part of his effort to find alternate revenue streams.

“He’s like a fallen Caesar,” says Huston. “After what’s happened in Cuba, he has to reorganize.”

Huston will even acknowledge Ben Diamond shares a bit of DNA with Noah Cross, the manipulative father Danny’s father John Huston played in “Chinatown.”

Danny stresses that he demurs on any comparisons, “because Noah Cross is one of the great villains in all of movie history.”

But yes, “There’s a little Noah Cross in Ben. Whatever anyone else thinks of his world, he understands and accepts it.”

Yeah he's the man hopefully they'll play some godfather music when he steps out of the limo big pimpin

Love everything about this show, especially where it seems to be heading.

This season has been pretty good so far imo.

It gets better and better each week. You know that a show is beginning to approach a level of greatness when after watching an episode it leaves you with an anxious feeling where you just cannot wait to see the one airing next week.

The acting all around is fantastic. Jeffery Dean Morgan is great in his role as Ike Evans. But Danny Houston aka Ben Diamond does an unbelievable job playing a gangster. He's so f**king bizarre!

Hoping to see James Caan's character develop into a much larger role on the show.

Absolutely, he wasn't even on at all this week and the week before he was on for a couple minutes if my memory is correct. Hopefully he'll have a bigger part in the coming episodes and a lot more screen time.


What makes you think that? lol! Ben is one demented kinky psychopath and he gets more psychotic every episode it seems. Should be interesting to see what happens when that gambling bill fails. Ben could be in trouble with Sy.

Another loon on cable tv is Jon Voight. Check him out on Showtimes new show "Ray Donovan".

This series is one of the hidden gems of television. The show gets better and better every week and has already got a cult following!!! I'm hooked!