Great points. I finished it yesterday and like your issues with the narrative. I’ll go do some research. I know little about the Philly mob except scarfo, but I knew some of the credibility issues in the earlier New York series. No one can suck a dick like the FBI blowing itself. It kind of took away any suspense when they had to constantly disclaim Joey and the fact he was never charged with a mob crime. I was then watching to see how the fibers going to fuck it up,
the FBI should have been dismantled after Little Bohemia. Or their obvious faked takedown of Dillinger. Fucking keystone cops.
My dad was a postal inspector and their #1 internal theft investigator after being a top mail fraud guy. He had nothing but disdain for the FBI, including most agents or their labs. Hair matching and handwriting analysis he considered mostly witchcraft they came up with to bamboozled juries. His highest respect went to US Marshals, Secret Service (the investigation section), the old ATF, and for science, dept of Agriculture.