Show The Black Donnellys

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The Donnellys are four young working-class Irish-American brothers who live by this motto despite their involvement with organized crime in New York City. Police investigators question Joey Ice Cream, a childhood friend and the unreliable narrator who introduces the Donnelly brothers and sets the scene. Kevin Donnelly is convinced he's lucky, but when his gambling bets add up, his oldest brother Jimmy Donnelly kidnaps the mob-connected bookie Kevin owes money to. When word around the neighborhood connects the Donnellys to the disappearance, Sean Donnelly, the youngest, pays a severe price for sharing his last name. Tommy Donnelly, the reliable one, is forced to make difficult sacrifices for his family when Jimmy's plans fall apart and Sean ends up in the hospital.

Original Air Dates:
Country: US
Genre: Crime, Drama
Network: NBC
Watched by: 1 518 1 007 389
Total running time: 9 hours 19 minutes
Episode duration:
Episodes: 13
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5
07 Apr 2016, 04:42 #
Haggis is in the directors and screenwriters, overall a good cast and a pretty good presentation of the story. But at the same time, it's a bit annoying britpop and a very stretched plot in places, in which the characters start to get dumber than usual. Add to this a high rating on metacritic and imdb from users, and an average rating from critics. NBC, damn it... They actually put either 3 or 4 episodes on the air, the rest on DVD. I also watched it on TV when I was at home. The star seemed to be broadcasting.
Haggis should have gone to HBO, or to any other cable channel, I have a feeling that his original vision of the series was heavily diluted with producer pop, resulting in neither fish nor meat. We haven't finished properly yet. But it's a pity, despite all this, the series is much more lively than many of the current average serial crime dramas, if they had worked on it nominally, they could have already watched season 8.
04 Nov 2019, 10:31 #
It's a great series. It's a pity that it's only 1 season. The cast is good, there were good garters for the series to continue for several seasons. It was possible to calmly stretch the story of the formation of new bosses of Italians and Irish for 5 seasons, and most likely some kind of enmity between them.
14 Sep 2017, 22:15 #
It wasn't enough for the story to be finished. It's not a bad series, I think I'll agree with the speaker above, because it's really much better than modern crime dramas.
11 Sep 2017, 13:19 #
Tucker, it turns out, often holds dying brothers in his arms. Jonathan was pleased, the pilot turned out not to be boring, everything was presented very clearly and interestingly.
19 Apr 2017, 01:45 #
The series are cool, they look like nuts!)))