A new Netflix docuseries chronicles how the authorities took forever to bring notorious mob boss John Gotti to justice.
’s new three-part docuseries that tries to breathe fresh life into a story that ended well before there was even such a thing as Netflix. Fast and slick, well-sourced and cogently told, it opens up mostboss who couldn’t stop talking into the bugs he somehow didn’t know were there.
The devil is in the details here, which is fortunate because anyone who cares a great deal about the Gotti story already knows it pretty well, including how it ended. As the title suggests,is about the how, not the what; in a sense this is fine-grained procedural, with a dose of cultural context on the side. The series explains how a well-dressed gangster got away with thumbing his nose at the authorities, while too much of the world cheered him on.