DVD & BluRay

GOMORRAH: COMPLETE SEASON THREE Arrow TV, cert 18 Blu-ray 3-disc set £14.99 IT’S somehow fitting that the biggest Italian TV export ever is a blood-soaked Mafia saga. Italians love it (almost) as much as football, and it’s big in the US and a hit here on Sky Atlantic. Gomorrah takes no prisoners, it’s Goodfellas with bad blood by the bucketful. The setting’s Naples - you know the saying ‘see Naples and die’ and many do. Its seedy streets and badly ageing architecture are the scene of a vicious battle for control of the crime and drugs trade since the powerful Savastano family split into warring factions. One headed by the Brando-esque Don Pietro and the other by his rebellious son Gennaro or ‘Genny” (Salvatore Esposito), a brick outhouse of a fella with a funny hairdo. Big trouble started when Genny enlisted drugs rival Ciro Di Marzio (Marco D’Amore) to carry out a hit on his father to clear his way to the top of the organisation. It’s an evil if fragile alliance because Ciro also killed Genny’s mother, and in retaliation Don Pietro killed his enemy’s daughter. Nice people. The new series is set for explosive situations with the Savestano family’s old enemy Lady Scianel (Cristina Donadio) playing her own brand of doubledouble-cross. Fittingly the series is staged like a grand tragic opera with an orchestra of bullets. Who played Don Corleone in The Godfather? Entries to Alex Gordon, Gomorrah competition by March 22.