Martin Scorsese is proud of the show, and is sure it will have great appeal.

You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with. It’s [about] the charting of the nature of this world, the underworld. And also the nature of America’s love affair with the gangster as a sort of tragic hero… loving the gangster for doing everything he can’t do, but wanting him to pay for it at the end.

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