Finished it this evening.
Slightly underwhelmed by the ending really, felt like it was building to something that never really came. A bit anticlimactic?
We spend 7 episodes watching Eddie do everything he can to avoid/get out of being a drug baron, then because of one conversation with his mad brother whose opinion he clearly doesn’t value, he suddenly decides to try and buy the entire thing and stay in after all? I get the whole Walter White/corrupted by power arc, but it all seemed a bit abrupt. Maybe he realised his family knew/didn’t really care? Maybe he just wanted to be more in control/equal? Not sure but it didn’t really come across, and it definitely needed more than one scene for him to change his mind.
It also suffered from a similar ending to a lot of Ritchie projects. The same thing happened in Lock Stock, Snatch, and every episode of the Lock Stock TV series: All the factions introduced along the way that pose a threat to our protagonists arm themselves, while all the stories converge in a finale that sees them all kill each other - except our heroes who are left in the clear, confused how it all happened but happy to be alive nonetheless, usually with a small profit but essentially back where they started.
Definitely feels like I’m over analysing what’s supposed to be a bit of fun, but it’s a bit annoying they all go the same way.
Oh well, it was still really good. I just appreciated what it was all building to a lot more than how it ended. At least it seems ripe for a season 2 though, and a sequel to one of these is something we’ve never gotten. Keen to see where it goes.
We spend 7 episodes watching Eddie do everything he can to avoid/get out of being a drug baron, then because of one conversation with his mad brother whose opinion he clearly doesn’t value, he suddenly decides to try and buy the entire thing and stay in after all? I get the whole Walter White/corrupted by power arc, but it all seemed a bit abrupt. Maybe he realised his family knew/didn’t really care? Maybe he just wanted to be more in control/equal? Not sure but it didn’t really come across, and it definitely needed more than one scene for him to change his mind.
It also suffered from a similar ending to a lot of Ritchie projects. The same thing happened in Lock Stock, Snatch, and every episode of the Lock Stock TV series: All the factions introduced along the way that pose a threat to our protagonists arm themselves, while all the stories converge in a finale that sees them all kill each other - except our heroes who are left in the clear, confused how it all happened but happy to be alive nonetheless, usually with a small profit but essentially back where they started.
Definitely feels like I’m over analysing what’s supposed to be a bit of fun, but it’s a bit annoying they all go the same way.
Oh well, it was still really good. I just appreciated what it was all building to a lot more than how it ended. At least it seems ripe for a season 2 though, and a sequel to one of these is something we’ve never gotten. Keen to see where it goes.