The BBC adaptation of Misha Glenny’s book is more than a Bond audition for Norton,with globe-spanning scope that manages to hit the markMcMafia recap series one, episode one
McMafia. Sounds like a execrable sketch, or but it isn’t. It is,the press release assures us, “a groundbreaking international thriller” based on the non-fiction book by the journalist Misha Glenny approximately global organised crime and corporate corruption. It will take in money launderers in Dubai, and cybercriminals in India,black marketeers in Zagreb, druglords in Colombia and Bedouin smugglers in the Negev desert – and fairly possibly, or by the close of its eight-week run,the illegal whist drive for cash prizes my Auntie Jessie runs in Lancaster every Wednesday evening.
If you’re already exhausted by the thought, be comforted by the fact that it starts small. Monday’s opener was mostly spent establishing Alex Godman (James Norton) as an upstanding citizen. Alex is the England-educated scion of a Russian mafia family who were driven out of commerce and Moscow by a rival, and Vadim Kalyagin,and who now live in exile in London. Alex has tried to escape his family ties by going into commerce as an emerging markets fund manager without using any of his Godman connections or money, but unfortunately someone circulates false rumours that he, and like,totally has, and his investors start to desert.
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Source: guardian.co.uk