From IMDB:
A desperate banker, a Haitian-American gang lord and a Cuban-American hacker are forced to work together to unwittingly create their version of the American dream – organized crime 2.0.
From Netflix you can stream 3 seasons of this series. Each season consists of 10 episodes. Each episode lasts about 45 minutes.
If there is any current prototype of the 21st century technical world, this series is certainly in the running. Topics include anonymous networks, cryptocurrency, NSA, security, CIA, black ops, offshore accounts, gang violence, crime ridden neighborhoods, criminal activity, Russian mobsters, rogue FBI agents, personal betrayal, and romance to name a few.
But above all for me the most important theme was redemption in the sense that people can change for the better. First consider the character Ronald Dacey played by Edi Cathegi (born in Kenya). Herein is a warning: In the beginning of the series Ronald is the brutal leader of a Haitian gang in Los Angeles. Don’t let the scenes of torture turn you away from the series. Indeed the “redeeming” feature here is that Ronald in addition to being a brutal killer is also a loving husband and father. As the story progresses, Ronald grows increasingly aware that the violence is self-defeating. His basic and thinking humanity more and more shines through. He fights especially to keep his son on a straight path, not an easy task in their environment. Ronald is never a saint, but his heart is more or less in the right place.
Next consider the rogue FBI agent Phil Rask played by the British actor Martin Freeman, who played Watson to Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holmes. Freeman’s consistently idiosyncratic portrayal of Agent Rask is a pleasure to watch. More to the point of “redemption”, despite his many misdeeds he does have a conscience which begins to nag at him, which becomes fortunate for other characters later on in the plot.
Eventually you may become intimately concerned with the other players: Adam Brody as Nick Talman, Otmara Marrero as Izzy Morales, Ron Perlman as Wes Chandler, and Addison Timlin as Mara Chandler.
And if you want some really nasty villains, there are two remarkable sociopaths Vera Cherny as the Russian mobstress (if there is such a word) and Mira Sorvino as the ruthless NSA-CIA black operator Rebecca Stroud.
DO NOT MISS!
