Fuggetaboutit: Best Mafia series to binge right now

“Leave the gun, take the canolli,” says the mobster to his partner, moments after carrying out an execution. This bone-chilling scene from The Godfather will forever be etched in our collective consciousness as a true representation of a criminal organisation like the Mafia: unsettling normalcy in the wake of extreme violence, one that would shatter the psyche of any other human being.

Maybe that’s what draws us to crime series. That detachment from reality, the ability to break away...