{"id":42578,"date":"2026-09-16T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42578"},"modified":"2026-09-16T00:09:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:09:39","slug":"american-godfathers-the-five-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42578","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;American Godfathers: The Five Families&#8221; (2024) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z091626review_amgodfathers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"505\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>American Godfathers: The Five Families <\/i>(2024)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pouria Baladi, Jason Wright <\/strong>(eps. 1-3)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Teleplay:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Selwyn Raab<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(eps. 1-3)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Narrator: <strong>Michael Imperioli<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tagline:\u00a0None.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Members of the Sicilian Mafia immigrate to America and set-up\u00a0 shop in New York City.\u00a0 Prohibition provides opportunities for increased wealth and power.\u00a0 There is a tradition of honor and omerta (a strict code of silence and non-cooperation with legal authorities) that protects the crime families.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As time passes and American born crime bosses rise, the old traditions are lost.\u00a0 Some mafia bosses are more concerned with their personal wealth and public persona.\u00a0 This attracts attention from the FBI and politicians.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI uses RICO statutes for the first time to bring down mafia families.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michael Imperioli is an excellent choice to narrate the series.<\/p>\n<p>The series does an excellent job of covering the century of organized crime.\u00a0 While there isn&#8217;t much new ground broken, there is a lot of acreage to cover.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>American Godfathers: The Five Families <\/i>(2024)<\/strong> rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z091626review_amgodfathers2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Godfathers: The Five Families (2024) Director: Pouria Baladi, Jason Wright (eps. 1-3) Teleplay: Selwyn Raab\u00a0(eps. 1-3) Narrator: Michael Imperioli<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,72,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-history","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42789,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42578\/revisions\/42789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}