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I didn't enjoy the second season as much, and I'm not sure where the third season will go. It is in danger of going on too long I think.

agree it should have been a one season show of 15 or so episodes. There cannot be many more bad people to kill off or shady deals to make.

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3rd season - ok but not cole dunmire

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he needs to be whacked  to use the slang but since he is in luv and informed on the bomb he will get off and live happily ever after. Cole comes across as a neanderthal, all I keep seeing is his muscles that he flexes all the time. Further more we keep on seeing Jeremiah making his moonshine????? what is he some kind of redneck hick

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merc wrote:

3rd season - ok but not cole dunmire

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Further more we keep on seeing Jeremiah making his moonshine????? what is he some kind of redneck hick

My head canon for the show and filling in the story aspects not seen on the show:

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We know that Dunmire has an entire distillery and national clients, and we know he's worth a bundle but we never see any of that big business side to his operation. He always feels like a small time moonshiner without seeing any of that business.  He went on and on about how the Montague 50 was something he was *owed* and his birthright and belonged to him.  And that always just felt like theft of someone else's good fortune and good product.

Then they run over this part pretty fast with only a single line really...

Dunmire wrote:

Montague made a fortune using a recipe he and I developed together

and I think that's a vital part of his motivation that needed to be brought up bigger and earlier.

I think the bit about him working on his 100 year old family still is him developing.  yeah there's a big operation to him, but working out new recipes to him is a tradition to be done the same way it has been for 150 years.  To him that's what separates his product from the mass produced shyte pumped out by the corporate operations.
And... Its his 'me time'/'zen time'... when he can get away from the (unseen) distractions of running the distillery operation, everyone in his ear about everything, contemplate, think, plan his next move(s).  Working the still is his version of Gibb's building the boat, on NCIS.

And as far as Cole goes... Yeah - this actor feels exactly the same in every role.  I felt this way about when he was in SEAL Team... and when the actor was on FBI: International.  Part of it is body language: The way he stands and walks hunched, shoulders rounded over and arms hanging makes me think either ape or neanderthal.  The actor could be a great guy, but these roles with their IQ=47 dialog aren't doing him any favors.

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Badly in need of English subtitles whenever Stallone attempts to speak.........does my head in. lol

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Badly in need of English subtitles whenever Stallone attempts to speak.........does my head in. lol

Subtitles are linked on the show page smile

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Never really appreciated Stallone - he always sounded some one who has been whacked in the head a million times and has brain damage, struggling to put together a sentence. Seems ok here. Deacon the bomb maker is unconvincing lacks any degree of cunning

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One thing that really bothers me at the end

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why did he not tell Dunmire about his son betraying him?

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One thing that really bothers me at the end

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why did he not tell Dunmire about his son betraying him?


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too busy bashing his head in like a sadistic monster. Burning Dumire a bit too graphic, makes me wonder what American society is really like

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Burning Dumire a bit too graphic, makes me wonder what American society is really like

Well... Dunmire had

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burned the other guy alive in his house at the start of the season.  So this is basically a "live by the sword, die by the sword" justice.

> makes me wonder what American society is really like
I don't think anyone, anywhere, thinks that every day real life society is what the entertainment industry portrays for the underworld element. You might as well think that the world of John Wick is real life.

Real life South American and Jamaican cartels do so much worse, within their own criminal world.

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First episode 3rd season made me loose interest totaly....

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I enjoyed the first season of this. Unfortunately it went downhill fast thereafter. The cringeworthy way the cast 'laugh' at Mr Stallone's 'jokes' made me want to turn off the telly. Agree with others, should have been one series  only (Like so many!).
It seems to me that Mr Sheridan has a knack for creating interesting stories, but ones that don't have legs smile

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as everyone has said
first season was good, great even.
( if you ignore reality and just assume everyone just rolls over for any Italian with an attitude and a shape suit)
second season was ok, but lacking great but had some good parts.
season 3 was suffering from the start.

i hope they rethink it for season 4 get back to the basics the way it should have stayed.

i was hoping it would be a goodfella with old world values showing how they still matter
in modern times while learning modern technology.
but that hope was all gone by episode 3 or 4...