I always get flamed by David Chase fanboys when I say that “The Sopranos” is now outdated.
Here’s what 95% of today’s American mobsters are really like:

- current era Tony Soprano lives in a triple-mortgaged home;

- he heads a “cowboy” crew of heist men, home invaders and hardcore cons who heist dope dealers;

- he never has any money;

- the money he does have he kicks it up, gambles it or it goes up his nose;

- he’s divorced;

- he’s done at least 5 (probably more, like a dozen) years in the pen;

- he’d rat without blinking if facing serious time;

- at least one of his kids has an opioid addiction;

- he’s doing what he does because he came of age in the drought era of LCN and didn’t have the brains or the legit connections to get out of the guinea ghetto;

- his buddies run poker machines in dive bars, keep books and do poorman’s shy;

- the new “generation” are pumped-up gym rats running sleazy strip joints where they pimp the girls out, handle their own security and deal with nickel-dime ops like slinging benzos and oxys;

- he, his buddies and the youth are constantly getting shook down by the higher ups, the 5% ;

- the higher up 5% is basically royalty: wary, nepotist, smug and loaded. Old enough to have benefited from better times, lucky enough to be born into established dynasties, or smart enough to have married into them;

- links overseas and to Canada are privilegedly limited and a massive headache to keep up with.

Bottom line is that American LCN is grimy as hell. All over the place, not just smaller groups like Philly and Boston. And it looks like things are this way in Canada as well. The gap between them and the US has shrunk exponentially in the last decade alone.