Season 1 finale in December 2019 left some unanswered plot points, since the dramastarring Forest Whitaker as real-life Harlem gangster Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson, hadn’t yet been renewed (that happened in February 2020).
Now, after a long COVID delay, “Godfather of Harlem” returns on Sunday (April 18) at 9 p.m. and picks up right where it left off, shaking off the rust with an intense premiere episode catching us up on where Bumpy stands — and on the road on which he’ll travel as the season unwinds.Season 2 picks up in February 1964, three months after the events of Season 1.
Bumpy, the target of New York’s five crime families, is still in Harlem but moving around furtively (he’s grown a beard) to avoid assassins’ bullets.
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