Mob War is a super little series looking at the mob in Philadelphia, sprcifically the battle .between John Stanfa and Joey Merlino in the '90s The series is a refreshing break from the organized crime films that primarily focus on the mob in New York. Blame that on John Gotti who made the New York mob fashionable even as it effectively destroyed it.
Focusing on the period when federal and local authorities decided to try and run the bad guys out of town, the film paints a portrait of a city that seemed to be under the control of the mob. The series follows how the up-and-coming mobsters tried to push out the old crowd as the cops came calling.
I had a great time with this. Living in New York it was so nice to hear a true-life gangster story that wasn’t one I had heard a thousand time before. It was also nice not to hear about Whitey Bulger yet again.
Running a brief 3 episodes the truth is this is kind of too short. There is more history here and it would have been great to hear more stories about the Phillie mob.
Recommended.
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