AMC's McMafia has a slow pace that might've worked better in 2015 than in 2018
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A slow-moving show isn't a sin, "but there's no getting around the fact that pacing is an issue in the Peak TV era," says Tim Goodman. "McMafia is a somewhat sprawling, interconnected mystery in which it becomes clear after the fourth episode that it's aiming to keep its biggest reveals for the end, but there's sufficient worry that some people may never get there," he says, adding: "Within its twisty confines is a languid pace that seems to suppose — maybe because its origins are British? — that viewers will come back eight weeks in a row at the same time each week and settle in for a little international espionage, bouncing lithely but not quickly from London to Moscow to Mumbai to Israel and a few ports in between. But will they?"
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