Adapted from Roberto Saviano’s 2013 crime book,ZeroZeroZeroarrives with its underworld credibility firmly intact. Saviano is the author ofGomorrah,the acclaimed true-life account of the Camorra crime syndicate in Naples. Meanwhile, series co-creator Stefano Sollima, who directs two of the eight episodes here, also directed theSicariosequel,Day Of The Soldado.
Just a fraction of a second too late, they realised they had thrown a lottery ticket in there.
With its title referring to a nickname for cocaine at its purest, ZeroZeroZero is an international drugs drama that forges links between a Mexican cartel and an Italian crime syndicate known as ’Ndrangheta. In between is a New Orleans shipping family - run by Gabriel Byrne’s patriarch Edward Lynwood - using their legitimate infrastructure to smuggle vast quantities of cocaine from Latin America to Europe.