Hey guys not sure if there is a topic on this already but I'm watching it right now on AMC wanted to know the NY guys take on how real it is historically?

theres a topic on other mob movies and books,

dont have the channel here,

hope it turns up online

found it full first episode,

The Making Of The Mob New York S01E01 – The Education of Lucky Luciano


http://www.novamov.com/video/caf8ae950a0a5

http://vodlocker.com/s24uq21pbfk8

http://gorillavid.in/cge9d475khb8

http://vidbull.com/12vm1rjztdje.html

I watched the promos on YouTube.

I stopped watching AMC when they started running commercials. AMC was commercial free at one time.

So what do I do when that happened I bought VCR's that had commercial skip I bought three of them. They were a pain in the ass as well.

So if you can't see it on Netflix or buy it on Amazon I don't watch it until you can.

the show is excellent and also narrated by ray liotta from goodfellas fame.

Somebody please part 2.Thanks

There is a discussion on this show in another thread but since this thread is solely dedicated to the documentary I'll let this stand (the other thread started out as a discussion on other subjects).

Personally I think this show is OK, but just OK. It takes some liberties with known facts** but generally it is based on known information about the Mob and most of us on this board probably won't learn anything new.

** two examples that come to mind now are this documetary shows Arnold Rothstein being shot in the street and that's not true; AND Lucky Luciano being kidnapped while walking down the street with Meyer Lansky, and likewise, that isn't true either.

Overall, I think most of us who like mob stuff will enjoy the show.

I agree SC. Many of we Board members are thoroughly familiar with the Mafia's history, so this series is nothing more than a reprise. Yes, some of its content is not factual. In some ways, it treats some Mafia history in a quite cursory manner and its actors don't come across to me as authentic. As you state though, it just barely enjoyable.

Yes I am but on demand though. I keep forgetting its on.

i have been watching it and it doesn't seem to stray off the topic. meyer lansky is portrayed realistically and not as a killer using a Thompson machine gun. i like when they talk to some of the actors that were in the sopranos. rudy guiliani has even been featured along with sonny grasso. grasso was the partner of Eddie Egan i.e. the real popeye Doyle.