Netflix has been doing quite well with their docuseries selection over the most few months. It looks as though the streak is set to continue with their latest, Fear City. The streamer has released the trailer to the three-part series about the Mafia takedown in New York City during the 1970s. The series premieres July 22nd.
The series was created by the same production company as the docuseries Don’t F*ck With Cats, Fear City explores a time New York’s history, where the five Mafia families took control of Manhattan. Fear City director Sam Hobkinson tells Rolling Stone.
“I grew up in the ’70s and ’80s in the UK. For me, New York was a mythical place — violent and exciting,”
“You wouldn’t go there, because everyone said it was too dangerous — and for that reason, it was exotic. So this was an opportunity to tell a panoramic tale of New York, from the wiseguys on the streets all the way up to the lawmakers in City Hall, at this most dramatic point in its history.”
“Most mob stories are told from the point of view of the mobsters but we decided the main thread of the narrative would be the FBI investigation. Then, generically, it becomes a techno-spy thriller with all the bugging and surveillance… Our incredible team of researchers managed to unearth amazing surveillance tapes that haven’t been heard before and hundreds of photographs that haven’t been seen.”
