It's been so long since i did a series review and we are talking about me guys... A year ago i could watch 3-4 seasons in less than week and now....now i just found the time to watch a single episode. Thankfully the series is brand new and only one episode is out, so lucky me!
General Info That Mostly Nobody Cares
Godfather of Harlem is a crime drama series that aired during 29/9/2019 and created by Chris Brancato & Paul Eckstein (writers of the masterpiece called Narcos). It will have 10 episodes in total and by the time i am writing this post only the first episode is out for the masses to watch it. If you work for the press and be a critic or something then you get the chance to see 5 out of 10 episodes in order to write a more objective review. Sadly, i belong to the first group (the masses), although i am a league of my own, so my review will be based on the first episode alone!
Plot
Godfather of Harlem takes place (guess where?) in Poland.....Harlem and is based on the real life story of Ellsworth Bumpy Johnson a crime boss who in 1960 returns to his town from a 10 year imprisonment in Alcatraz. Bumpy Johnson is played by the one and only Forest Whitaker!
So Bumpy returns to his town but not everything is the way he left it 10 years ago. The Italian mafia now rules the city and have taken many of the streets that once was Bumpy's. Fearless as he is, he invade the "hideout" of the "leader" of the mafia in Harlem who is called Vincent “The Chin” Gigante who 10 years ago was a nobody according to Bumpy. Vincent is played by (Vincent D’Onofrio) the same man who portrayed Wilson Fisk in daredevil so i expect a lot.
To also give you a better look on the whole Italian mafia and it's structure think of it like this. Vincent is the face of the mafia and to be more exact, the face of Genovese family. In a way he does what he wants in his territory but for bigger issues he needs the approval of the family or the families! (at least that's how i understood it)
Soon enough a rivalry will begin as Bumpy will try and reclaim his lost ground and due to his criminal experience he would be always one step ahead. In order to achieve his goals he will get in touch with Malcolm X (Nigél Thatch) and Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (Giancarlo Esposito)
My Conclusion on Episode 1
I quite enjoyed the first episode a lot! In most of the series i have watched the first episode has a slow pace as the purpose is to try and explain to us...viewers what we are going to see, in what era and place everything is happening etc etc. In this one though, the pace was extremely fast and it was awesome! I don't know if this will keep up but i felt like i was watching 2-3 episodes.
Also, except the fact that the acting is great, i like the correlation between the Crime boss Bumpy and the Political-Activists-Religious leaders/influencers or whatever else you wanna call them. Remember just a couple of sentences above that i mentioned Malcolm X and the congressman. Apparently, they all had some ties with Bumpy and knew each other for a long time while at the same time focusing and using each other's resources for their own agenda. I don't know ofc if that's the truth but just a tiny fraction of it must be there!
Let me know if you watched the first episode and if the answer is no GO AND WATCH IT
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I dont think our tv provider provides Epix, it is a show I would like to watch
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That will be good episode