I’ve stumbled across this show on E! . . . you’d think it would be something cool and mafia-related, but it’s anything but. From what I can tell, it chronicles the boring lives of 3 brothers somehow related to the Gotti crime family. The mother narrates. Apparently she was a model despite the fact that she looks like a man dressed as a woman.
Anyway, none of the brothers are remotely intelligent, interesting, or talented in any way, and they aren’t even intelligible. The show use subtitles to clarify what the brothers are saying, but once you read the subtitles you realize that they might as well have left their words to your imagination because you are dumber after you read it. Their accents aren’t even cool New York gangster accents, they’re an unintelligible mix of New York, gangsta, and down syndrome or something.
The “plot” in the few segments of episodes I’ve seen always seems to revolve around the mother trying to get her moronic sons to go to some sort of celebrity function, to which they resist and say that they aren’t going to attend but by the end of the show they attend the function against their will. That’s it.
Why are these people celebrities? Is it because of their ridiculous haircuts?
My mom loves this show. She thinks it’s funny. She is a native NYer married to a Sicilian so she feels much akin to her I guess. My brothers were also idiots at that age…
I won’t watch it on principle. John Gotti was one nasty bastard who, among other things, murdered people. I have no desire to enrich his children and grandchildren who are seeking to capitalize on his notoriety.
I feel exactly the same way about any film or show that glorifies criminals. As much as I like The Sopranos I feel very uneasy watching it because it does tend to make the criminals into hero figures.
In Australia there was a 19th century gangster called Ned Kelly who has somehow been elevated into a national folk hero. I think that is a symptom of a sick society.
Maybe so, but it happens everywhere. Let’s not forget that its the media that often keeps the story fresh in everyone’s minds and allows the criminal to achieve noteriety.
Apparently and unfortunately quite a few people do. It was A&E’s biggest series debut in 20 years. About 3.2 million on its opener. Of course this pales in comparison to CSI’s 30ish million. Not sure what the numbers are now during its run. Alot of that could of been curiousity.
I’ve never seen this show but I did just see an ad for it last night. If the mother is the blonde woman then I don’t think she looks much like a bloke in a dress. She has rather large hands and jaw-line but then again so do many super models. I think she looks pretty good.
I’m not going to say he was a good guy, but people have sides. Yeah, he was a typical mobster, but he also played Barbies with my mom when she was growing up. He attended my grandfather’s funeral when I was younger (under the guard of two suited guards) and gave young me a lil’ speech about how important living a good life is (he was dying of cancer at this point).
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I’ve said this before, but one time I passed by that show and I thought, “Wow, their family must be SO embaras— son of a bitch.” :smack:
My mom hates Victoria and to this day calls her, “That spoiled bitch” (I swear to Og, the dispute started over a DOLL in their childhood). The show certainly displays the lifestyle in which they live. I feel bad for Victoria mainly because she comes across like someone who really cares about her sons, but just can’t control them. From what I hear from the family, this is the case in real life, not just the show.
Wow, he was your uncle? Do you have any presents that he bought for you with blood money? Any cool pictures with you and him where he might be packing heat?
I love the mobster stuff, all of it. The Sopranos, Goodfellas . . . it’s so interesting. I guess part of the reason why the show is so disappointing. That, and the fact that it’s a horrible show.
I’d love to see a movie or a series on some of the victims of mob crmes. You know, the local shop keeper who has his legs busted because he wouldn’t pay protection. The poor SOB who could cover the “juice” so he gets his head caved-in. The guys who stood up to the extortion and intimidation of these “honourable” men.
Sorry, but Gotti and his ilk are a cancer on society.
If, for nothing else, it only existed to spawn a message board post where I got to find out that bit of trivia, I’d say that the show has paid it’s way.
Ah, no worries for me. They all live way over there :: points east::, so I never see my insane family. I saw everybody a few summers ago and before that at his funeral.
Lemme tell ya something about her three sons’ and their hair- the hair looks even stupider in person. Oh and I’ve never seen such tanorexic males in my entire life.
