Season 1 opened to 95% on Rotten Tomatoes and an 8.6 IMDb series rating, with critics singling out the Neapolitan street-level texture and the cold-eyed moral universe as something genuinely new in European crime TV.
Renewal: Five seasons, ended December 17 2021 after a total of 58 episodes; a prequel film L'Immortale (2019) and spin-off series Gomorrah: The Origins announced for 2026. (Wikipedia)
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| Season | Released | BollyMeter | Critics | Audience | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 12014 · 12 eps | 6 May 2014 | 9.0 | 95% | 8.6/10 | MUST-WATCH |
| Season 22016 · 10 eps | 10 May 2016 | 8.7 | n/a | 8.6/10 | MUST-WATCH |
| Season 32017 · 12 eps | 17 November 2017 | 8.6 | n/a | 8.6/10 | MUST-WATCH |
| Season 42019 · 12 eps | 29 March 2019 | 8.2 | n/a | 8.6/10 | WORTH-IT |
| Season 52021 · 10 eps | 19 November 2021 | 8.1 | n/a | 8.6/10 | WORTH-IT |
Season 1 · episode BollyMeter rhythm
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The opener drops viewers into Scampia with zero orientation - a drugs-territory dispute, a clansman's burial, a boss's prison conversation. Roberto Saviano's world arrives fully formed: no heroes, no grace notes, just the weight of a criminal economy pressing down on ordinary streets. Pace is deliberate; dread is total.
Full episode review →The midpoint of Season 1 tightens the screws on Ciro's dual loyalty - to the Savastanos and to his own survival calculus. A sequence of violence in a sunlit courtyard crystallises the show's thesis: in Scampia, daylight offers no protection. The episode marks the turn from procedural setup to full-tilt consequence.
Full episode review →The season finale reshuffles the power structure with brutal efficiency. No speech, no monologue - just the transactional finality that the show has been building toward across twelve episodes. It leaves the clan transformed and the audience with the unnerving sense that the story has barely started.
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