Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities (Season 2)- Review

Taken between the streets of New South Wales and Victoria, season two of Underbelly introduces the viewer to a series of familiar faces responsible for the developing drug trade throughout the country and presents the Mr. Asia syndicate in a grotesquely real and unsettling manner. Despite introducing fiction in amongst real events, such people like "Kiwi Terry" Clark and "Aussie Bob" really roamed the streets, leaving a path of destruction behind them. This season is a prequel to the first season and explores events between 1976 and 1987.

I found it a little difficult to engage with this season. I liked the idea of the prequel being the second season as it allowed information taken from the first season to be linked in a linear manner to this season, however I did notice that most of the problems I had actually stemmed from the cast. Sure, the actors are all very talented but I didn't really find any one person to stand out performance wise. Upon finding out that the majority of this season was fictitious and 'loosely based' on real events, I've found it hard to even imagine how these criminal bosses really operated and how they appeared to others. As characters they're mostly bland.

I'm expecting much greater things from the other seasons following this one in hope that they effectively make use of facts and spin a story using that information rather than only including a basic level and the rest fiction.

Score: 6.5/10.