Gradually you start to question his motives and wonder whether he really is the last bastion of justice.
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There’s a revelation later in the series that threatens to blow wide apart his reputation as an unimpeachable man of good. His habit of constantly referring to himself in the third person, as if he were a brand, starts as an eccentric quirk then blooms into something more pathological. His own sister claims he just wants to be famous. Gradually, you get the impression that Maniaci is his own worst enemy. If the mob has its tendrils around the government and the media, what’s the point of fighting any more? At times, the weight of the consequences of this become almost too much to bear. The bulk of Vendetta, then, takes the form of a courtroom drama, where Maniaci fights to clear his name against charges that he, too, has succumbed to the evils of corruption. Watch the trailer for Vendetta: Truth, Lies and the MafiaĪs soon as Maniaci started prodding around the higher echelons of local government, a tape appeared in which he is apparently seen attempting to extort hundreds of dollars from a local mayor. It wasn’t entirely unexpected to see Maniaci spit: “You pieces of shit,” while jabbing his finger at the camera, which you have to admit isn’t something you would expect from Huw Edwards. Fronted by Pino Maniaci – a small, chainsmoking man with a moustache so huge it makes him look like a Pixar character – Telejato news bulletins often took to calling out specific members of the mob directly. Vendetta tells the story of Telejato, a tiny, local Sicilian television station that made its name with a virulently anti-mafia stance. Indeed, there is a bracing lack of romance here rather, it is a slow procession of old, tired men and women smoking indoors, worn down by the relentlessness of it all. But while the latter is an offshoot of a TV show that went out of its way to deglamorise the mob, compared with this new documentary it stinks of Hollywood artifice. W hether deliberate or not, the release of new Netflix series Vendetta: Truth, Lies and the Mafia very neatly coincides with that of the Sopranos prequel, The Many Saints of Newark.
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