BLACK RABBIT - Netflix Series

BLACK RABBIT | Official Trailer | Netflix
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What a horrible show, horrible like a train wreck, and train wreck that doesn't just crash but keeps on crashing. The train comes off the rails and smashes through one building and you think, well, that was bad, but we'll recover. But no, the train isn't done, it keeps going, smashing the next building and the next and the next.

The story is about two brothers Jake and Vince. Jake runs a very trendy, expensive restaurant in Manhattan and he is doing well. He's having to hustle to keep this operation running smoothly but he is managing, until his brother shows up. His brother is a gambler. At one point he was flying high and developed a line of credit with a local mobster, but then his luck turned, the mobster wanted his money and Vince high-tailed it for the west Coast. Two years later he has gotten himself in another jam and calls Jake for help. He could have gone to Florida or really anywhere, but he didn't. He comes back to NYC where he is quickly identified by the mob thugs.

Now we go through one ridiculous scheme to pay off the mob guys, every one of which turns into a train wreck, but if Vince has one thing going for him, he has the gift of gab, and so in every case he manages to delay his day of reckoning for another few days while he schemes to come up with an even larger payday. Vince is a fucking disaster. Don't like swear words? The F-word is used about a zillion times in this show.

How many people die in this show? Let me count them for you:

• fat west coast thief steals coin collection from Vince, but fails to get out of the way when Vince backs across the parking lot and runs him over.
• young woman, former bartender at Jake's restaurant, when a couple of thugs break into her apartment and she slips and falls and hits her head on the tub.
• at the robbery we get three dead: one thug, one celebrity, and one good citizen with a gun.
• bartender at another bar during the showdown.

Jack & Vince got off to a bad start because they had a bad father. One night when the boys were young, their father lost his temper with his wife and started beating her. Vince took exception to this behavior. Looking over the railing from the third floor, he dropped a bowling ball on the old man's head, killing him. The mobster, same one who is after Vince, 'cleaned up' the mess by taking the body to a bar and pushing sent if falling down the stairs to the basement. Looks like another drunk slipped and fell. All cleaned up.