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Television

Gomorrah is gangsters without glamour – but it's still not as scary as Dance Moms

If you were a mobster with a reputation to uphold, you'd go after Roberto Saviano too

9 August 2014

9:00 AM

9 August 2014

9:00 AM

Gomorrah (Sky Atlantic, Monday), the new, must-see Mafioso series, started promisingly. We met two hoods — one young, shaven-headed, good-looking; one weary, brow-beaten, middle-aged — filling up at a petrol station in Naples, an unfamiliar (to me anyway) setting that looks promisingly like a cross between Vegas and downtown Gaza.

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