Bad Blood is a Canadian television crime drama series, which debuted on City on September 21, 2017. A French language version of the show premiered on November 11, 2017 on Ici Radio-Canada Télé under the title Les liens du sang.
Filmed in Montreal, Quebec and Sudbury, Ontario, the series is a dramatization of the rise and fall of the Rizzuto crime family, a Montreal-based mafia organization. It is based on the 2015 book Business or Blood: Mafia Boss Vito Rizzuto's Last War, by Antonio Nicaso and Peter Edwards.
On 6 March 2018, Rogers Media announced the renewal for a second season which will feature eight episodes in fall 2018.
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Cast and characters
Main characters
- Anthony LaPaglia as Vito Rizzuto (main cast season 1) - boss of Montreal's Rizzuto crime family
- Kim Coates as Declan Gardiner - acting boss of the Rizzuto family when Vito goes to prison
- Paul Sorvino as Nicolo Rizzuto (main cast season 1) - patriarch and founder of the Rizzuto family
- Enrico Colantoni as Bruno Bonsignori (main cast season 1) - Rizzuto family consigliere
- Brett Donahue as Nico Jr. (main cast season 1) - Vito's oldest son
- Maxim Roy as Michelle (main cast season 1) - Vito's wife
- Tony Nappo as Gio (main cast season 1) - soldier of the Rizzuto family
- Michelle Mylett as Sophie (main cast season 1) - Vito's mistress
- Louis Ferreira as Domenic Cosoleto (main cast season 2) - One of the Cosoleto brother's of Hamilton
- Daniel Kash as Enzo Cosoleto (main cast season 2) - One of the Cosoleto brother's
Recurring characters
- Joris Jarsky as Sal Montagna (recurring season 1) - competing gang member and acting boss of New York City's Bonnano crime family
- Angela Asher as Renata (recurring season 1) - Vito's lawyer
- Vincent Leclerc as Jacques Pilote (recurring season 1) - biker gang member
- Clauter Alexandre as Papa Lou (recurring season 1) - Haitian gang member
- Claudia Ferri as France Charbonneau (recurring season 1) - Quebec Superior Court Justice in charge of fighting the corruption within the Rizzuto family
- Simu Liu as Guy (recurring season 1) - France's colleague
- Amber Goldfarb as Rachel (recurring season 1) - France's colleague
- Andrea Senior as Jeanne (recurring season 1) - France's secretary
- Romano Orzari as Toto Bianchi (recurring season 1) - a partner of Sal's
- Ryan Blakely as Marc Desjardins (recurring season 1) - Rizzuto contact with Montreal's snow removal contracts
- Valerie Buhagiar as Loredana (recurring season 1)
- Joel Gagne as Luke - prison inmate (recurring season 1)
- Moe Jeudy-Lamour as Marlon - prison inmate (recurring season 1)
- Franco Lo Presti as Luca Cosoleto - Son of Domenic Cosoleto
- Dylan Taylor as Nats Cosoleto - Son of Enzo Cosoleto
- Lisa Berry as Nellie Bullock - Senior Agent of an Organized Crime Task Force
- Melanie Scrofano as Valentina Cosoleto - Nats wife who turns informant
- Anna Hopkins as Teresa Langana - twin siblings with Christian Langana
- Gianni Falcone as Christian Langana - twin siblings with Teresa Langana
- Sharon Taylor as Rose Sunwind
- Ryan McDonald as Reggie Ross
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Episodes
Season 1 (2017)
In the early 2000s, Vito Rizzuto (Anthony LaPaglia) is the boss of a crime family, seeking to bring peace to Montreal's criminal world. He succeeds, but, after being implicated and arrested for multiple murders committed in 1981, his empire crumbles. While in prison, Vito's son, Nico Jr. (Brett Donahue) and his father, Nicolo Rizzuto (Paul Sorvino) are murdered by his adversaries, while the family was entrusted to his right-hand man, Declan Gardiner (Kim Coates). Shipments of drugs are also picked off by the main antagonist, Sal Montagna (Joris Jarsky). Meanwhile, Quebec Superior Court Justice France Charbonneau (Claudia Ferri) is in charge to fight the corruption within the Rizzuto family. Upon Vito's release in 2012, he shuns Declan for the deaths in his family under his watch, later forgiving him as he sets out on a path of revenge against anyone who ever crossed the Rizzuto family. Declan, feeling betrayed, secretly switches allegiance to that of Sal, before killing him. Declan also later poisons Vito, killing him, as Declan is left as Montreal's drug kingpin.
Season 2 (2018)
Five years after Vito Rizzuto's death, his former right-hand man, Declan Gardiner, is the reigning king of the Montreal drug trade -- until a new breed of mobsters arrive from Europe to wage war in an attempt to wrestle the city from his grasp. Declan comes up against rivals, both old and new, who want to start dealing more dangerous substances; meanwhile, the Organized Crime Task Force gets ready to take everyone down with the help of a confidential informant. Although he prefers to work alone, Declan soon realizes that, in order to remain on top, he'll need to enlist some help. Hamilton's Cosoleto brothers, Domenic (Louis Ferreira) and Enzo (Daniel Kash), and their sons, Luca (Franco Lo Presti) and Nats (Dylan Taylor). On the opposite side of the law is a Senior Agent in the Organized Crime Task Force, Nellie Bullock (Lisa Berry), who is working her confidential informant, Nats's wife, Valentina Cosoleto (Melanie Scrofano). Things turn explosive when Declan refuses an offer to partner with the Cosoleto brothers and the Langana twin siblings, Teresa (Anna Hopkins) and Christian (newcomer Gianni Falcone). Left with no other choice, Declan looks to partner with an unlikely ally, Rose Sunwind (Sharon Taylor), and feels obliged to take a friend from his past, Reggie Ross (Ryan McDonald), under his wing.
Reception
The first season reached a total of 3.2 million Canadian viewers.
John Doyle of The Globe and Mail praised the series, calling it "very superior docu-drama: gripping, richly textured and unfussily focused not just on the violent dynamics of a successful mob operation but on what happens when a strong leader is absent and the centre of power disintegrates."
References
External links
- Official website
- Bad Blood on IMDb
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