I gave this show entire season's worth a benefit of the doubt. What I saw was a dull, super grim, ultra nihilistic, cliched and joyless excercise in tedium that made me dislike it more with each episode. Nearly every damn character is an irredeemable one dimensional piece of trash and an imbecile to boot. The only possible enjoyment there is to get out of this is seeing them murdered. But of course, the biggest scumbag is left standing by the end of first season thanks to all his enemies conveniently acting like complete morons. This show is not interested in saying anything new about the life it depicts, it only follows same tired cliches of predictable betrayals. It amazes me that so many people think this trash is anywhere close to quality of "The Sopranos", let alone it being better.

Stunning, brutal, gritty, merciless & superb acting (so many British Dramas fail because you are so aware they are ACTING!) This is a worthy mini series to carry on from the sublime "Spiral" if you are are looking for a proper drama to follow... Will I ever recover from the spectacular "Breaking Bad"? Probably not, but hope springs eternal

Somtimes there are things that, for the sake of human kind,should be deleted from history.Criminals,multiple.murderers should be forgotten. Then we got this series that makes criminals look like heroes(and ,shame of all shames,a lot of young Italian Do use their words and expressions, just to make themselves cool. This program is a danger and should be suppressed asap. Most of all,you could read that it's in Italian language,,,,,wrong .It's the napoletan language,that is not understood by 99% of Italian people. Guess what?!............this garbage is being payed by my taxes contributions. Shame,shame,shame

It has complexity, the cinematography is good and a great deal of effort has gone into making this series, but it has its shortcomings.There are certain common denominators involved with someone's coming up through (or traveling down through) the criminal underworld and it's just not possible for a film-maker to maintain continuity in this respect. Of course, the people who were chosen to bill this series are actors... and you can spot that a mile off for reasons too complex to go into.So, I'd say it's worth investigation this, but a word of warning - at some point the terrible direction with respect to scoring this series is going to hit you. Apparently there are new series in production, well I trust that the people involved in Gomorrah have done their due diligence, watched it all through from start to finish prior to post, and thought "This music with the four piano chords over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over... and over... and over... again... sometimes multiple times in each episode? That's a bit of an oversight. Perhaps we should employ some variation with the music."Or better yet, abandon the music. There's nothing worse than commandeering and shallow attempts to steer the viewers' emotions through the use of music. Look at Serpico, great film, not a piece of music in the whole film besides the one scene where the Director wanted it to matter. Sidney Lumet made the music matter in that film. In Gomorrah its creators make the music torture. Why it would take an aspiring film-maker from the arse-end of this planet to point this out in an IMDb review, goodness knows.Six stars and likely to drop if future offerings show that this mistake hasn't been noticed.See my 'Greats' list (which this series didn't make) here - http://www.imdb.com/list/ls033515993/?st_dt=&mode=detail&page=1&sort=list_order,asc