I thought at the time that Ciro should have shot Genny in the head - he survives. Meanwhile Ciro's wife is getting nervous - 'Everything's over' Ciro keeps reassuring her, knowing it isn't. As predicted, she doesn't survive the episode. A year later, Genny has built up the Honduras connection, reunites with dad in Germany where they run into a local Calabrian problem; Pietro isn't looking well. There's a lot of glowering in this show, lots of long aggressive looks...
Conte behaves mysteriously, alienates other gang members. Ciro uses this to stoke discontent. There's a power play when we think Ciro's been double-crossed but it's Conte who's slished, in the Basilica (ironically as he's always been a religious nut). Pietro comes back to Napoli, holed up in this mini flat with a tiny door - don't think there's an Alice in Wonderland allusion going on. In an attempt to make peace Gennaro and Ciro meet in Trieste, the former doesn't kill the latter. (All this stuff with the 3D printed gun is a bit silly really - I'm sure Ciro could just as easily have picked up a gun locally.)
Then Don Pietro is being looked after by a feisty lady called Patrizia (Cristiana Dell'Anna), who burns off her tattoo after Pietro has glowered at her enough times. Genny has a bird back in Rome, and a horrible apartment that is supposedly in the height of taste. His mate Principe (Antonio Folletto) is having more success cutting the drugs and selling threefold, provoking jealousy - Pietro (who I'm heartily sick of) comes out of hiding to kill him.
Power play - power play - blah blah.
Patrizia's holding her own with Pietro.. but she's uncovered as the Messenger and is then in great danger - cue good car chase scene ending up going the wrong way on the motorway. She gets Gennaro and Pietro out of danger, herself in it - yet Ciro can't kill her - he says he's killed too much. She ends up in bed with Pietro. The war escalates and Ciro's daughter is murdered. This is too much for him and he quits, but Gennaro seeks him out (he's in such a state he hasn't shaved his face or head) and makes him kill Pietro, leaving a nice power vacuum.
Genna' himself has played a dangerous move, getting his father-in-law in Rome imprisoned so he can take over.
We still don't like anyone and there's no humour, so it's more in the Top Boy ballpark. The design, whether poor or rich houses - is horrible. It seems a lot of this originates in the true account of the Di Lauro clan, described in detail by Vanity Fair.
Remarkably, Patrizio Marone continues to edit every single episode. And Paolo Carnero shot them all also. Stefano Sollima is still credited with 'Supervisione artistica'.
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