If you're doing a documentary and more than half your talking heads have written books on the subject they're discussing and have already appeared in multiple documentaries on the same subject, chances are good that the project you're working on, while it may be interesting, isn't going to be particularly fresh.
As evidence, I give you Netflix's new three-part Fear City: New York vs. the Mafia, an occasionally entertaining and never revelatory offering that dares to walk where countless documentaries have meandered before.
Fear Citygets bonus points for offering a slightly different perspective on the attempt to topple organized crime in the '80s, but loses points for its gallery of testimonials from people who almost all look like they're.
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