I wonder sometimes when I'm watching if the show is less appealing to others that don't have my long standing interest in 20's-30's gangsters. Everyone has heard of Capone but how many know Joe Masseria [One of my favorite characters- if he doesn't look and talk like a Sicilian gangster who does?] was real and killed just as depicted? I almost watch the show as a historical reenactment , fleshing out people and events I've read about for years, then as a pure made up story.