What is McMafia about?
McMafia is a high-octane crime drama following a man torn between his honest life and his family’s shady background.
Based on the non-fiction book, McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime by Misha Glenny, the series follows the globe-spanning story of Alex Godman, an investment fund manager in London.
Having made a legitimate career for himself away from the Russian crime family he was born into, Alex is happy with his girlfriend, Rebecca, and plans to settle down and live a quiet life.
However, after drug lord Mr Vadim is killed in Mumbai, a chain of events is triggered as Alex is pulled back into his father’s attachments to the Russian criminal underworld in order to protect those he loves. Soon, he’s falling down the hole of money laundering and corruption that organised crime is based in.
Spanning across the world, McMafia tracks the story across London, Mumbai, Prague, Tel Aviv, Cairo and Paris.
Created by director James Watkins (Eden Lake, The Woman in Black) and writer Hossein Amini (Drive, Our Kind of Traitor), McMafia was initially released in 2018 and
Who stars in McMafia?
The main cast of the initial season of McMafia are:
- James Norton (Happy Valley, Little Women) as Alex Godman
- David Strathairn (L.A. Confidential, Lincoln) as Semiyon Kleiman
- Juliet Rylance (The Knick, Perry Mason) as Rebecca Harper
- Merab Ninidze (The Courier, Conclave) as Vadim Kalyagin
- Aleksey Serebryakov (Leviathan, Anora) as Dimitri Godman
- Mariya Shukshina (Terroristka Ivanova, Indigo) as Oksana Godman
- Faye Marsay (Game Of Thrones, Andor) as Katya Godman
- David Dencik (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Top of the Lake) as Boris Godman
- Oshri Cohen (PMTA, Save The Date) as Joseph
- Sofya Lebedeva (Tetris, Vikings: Valhalla) as Lyudmilla Nikolayeva
- Kirill Pirogov (The Courier, Doktor Zhivago) as Ilya Fedorov
How many episodes of McMafia are there?
McMafia ran for one season totalling eight hour-long episodes.
When the show debuted in 2018, 9.8 million people tuned in, with a series average of 7.1 million.
Following the success of the initial season, a second was initially commissioned in May 2018 for both UK and US audiences.
However, the show faced delays to production due to conflicting schedules, and then the coronavirus pandemic.
It was reported the show was cancelled for good in 2022 in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine given the subject matter of the series.
What is the age rating of McMafia?
McMafia is officially certified 15 by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).
Reasons for this rating include:
- Scenes of violence, including sexual violence
- Scenes of a sexual nature
- Use of profanity
- Intense scenes some may find distressing
- Some scenes of alcohol use, smoking and drug references
How to watch McMafia
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