This first episode did a brilliant job at introducing the characters, also giving us a view about what the viewers can expect from the show. For me the pace was really good, didn't even feel like one hour had already passed. The three plots are also pretty interisting. Being honestly, it's incredible that they managed to put all the storylines came up together in just one episode without feeling rushed. I also felt some Gomorrah vibe from the powerful soundtrack and insane photography. Pretty good start in general.
5 Reviews
The Shipment
Prismark1010 March 2021
The roots to shows like Zero Zero Zero go back to 1989 and the British serial Traffik made by Channel 4.
It was later remade by Steven Soderbergh as the Oscar winning Traffic in 2000.
Traffik told three interwoven stories that spanned Britain, Germany and Afghanistan/Pakistan.
In the same way. The opening episode of Zero Zero Zero has prolonged scenes in Italy and Mexico with plenty of subtitles to read.
The opening voiceover is from Edward Lynwood (Gabriel Byrne) as he lies injured.
It then goes to Italy as Stefano wants a giant sow starved. In readiness to eat his grandfather Don Minu, an elderly clan boss. They are the buyer.
In Mexico the military is waging war with with drug traffickers, the seller. Some of the soldiers are on the payroll of the cartel. In a shootout, a young girl is killed. Collateral damage.
In New Orleans, Edward Lynwood ships cargo from the port. His most profitable activity is drugs. Edward is the broker between the drug cartels in central America and the mafia bosses in Europe.
His daughter Emma (Andrea Riseborough) helps him run this side of the business but his son Chris (Dane DeHaan) has so far been shielded from it.
It is a good opening episode where some betrayals are being mapped out already. In my mind it is also derivative of similar shows such as Narcos and movies like Sicario. Even the pigs eating a human was taken from Ridley Scott's Hannibal.
Lynwood's hard boiled narration was full of cliches though.
It was later remade by Steven Soderbergh as the Oscar winning Traffic in 2000.
Traffik told three interwoven stories that spanned Britain, Germany and Afghanistan/Pakistan.
In the same way. The opening episode of Zero Zero Zero has prolonged scenes in Italy and Mexico with plenty of subtitles to read.
The opening voiceover is from Edward Lynwood (Gabriel Byrne) as he lies injured.
It then goes to Italy as Stefano wants a giant sow starved. In readiness to eat his grandfather Don Minu, an elderly clan boss. They are the buyer.
In Mexico the military is waging war with with drug traffickers, the seller. Some of the soldiers are on the payroll of the cartel. In a shootout, a young girl is killed. Collateral damage.
In New Orleans, Edward Lynwood ships cargo from the port. His most profitable activity is drugs. Edward is the broker between the drug cartels in central America and the mafia bosses in Europe.
His daughter Emma (Andrea Riseborough) helps him run this side of the business but his son Chris (Dane DeHaan) has so far been shielded from it.
It is a good opening episode where some betrayals are being mapped out already. In my mind it is also derivative of similar shows such as Narcos and movies like Sicario. Even the pigs eating a human was taken from Ridley Scott's Hannibal.
Lynwood's hard boiled narration was full of cliches though.
is it a joke or what?
searchanddestroy-113 May 2020
This series is the thousandth one about drug traffic, after GOMORRA, NARCOS, NARCOS MEXICO, and so on..And this is not the end yet. I will get back to the whole show after I have seen the first season. There is one laughable sequence in this episode. The scene where the SWAT TEAM is waiting for the hoodlums, in broad daylight, just in the middle of the street....They are as invisible as an elephant in a church yard...is it a joke? And one of the cops asks his colleague: "Do you think they saw us?" ha ha ha
To Slow
craig-890636 March 2020
disjointed storyline
slang1209-271-6068825 March 2020
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