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Sneaky Pete was so much better than I expected it to be. It was one of the first series for Amazon before it became such a powerful streaming service so it was promoted the way it would be today so a lot of people haven't heard about it. Giovanni Ribisi plays a con man named Marius Josipovic who takes on the identity of his cellmate and goes into hiding with his estranged family from a gangster. The way they set up and execute the cons are fascinating. Ribisi is just phenomenal in this, it's probably his best role of his career. This series is so good that I binged all three seasons as fast as I could and it left me wanting more. If you haven't seen this yet then do yourself a favor and watch this as soon as you can.

Sneaky Pete is such an excellent and entertaining series! It's a show about cons, lies, deception, family, relationships, etc., etc. And tells it in such an amazing way that you can't wait to see the next episode! It was one of the best Amazon originals and got cancelled after 3 seasons for god knows why? Even though it ended it on a cliffhanger it's still definitely worth watching, it's not the kind of cliffhanger that will ruin the show for you. Once you start this amazing series you won't be able to stop watching it until you've binged the entire series so make sure you give yourself enough time to watch it. I promise you that it's worth every second!

I have been looking forward to S3 for a while since I binge-watched the first two last year. Those 20 episodes contain some of the most fast-paced, tense and almost anxiety-inducing elements in a TV show since - dare I say it - "Breaking Bad". Lots of tremendous acting especially by Giovanni Ribisi, great characters, setups and mini-payoffs building up to a grand finale for each season.

S3 was off to a great start and I whipped through the first 4 episodes in a row but honestly, I started losing general interest halfway through. Ribisi and McRae visibly grow tired of their respective characters and there are lot of strange, forced throwaway scenes. Overall the acting/writing sort of just fizzles towards the end with each mini-payoff just barely necessary to a climax half as exciting compared to the previous seasons.

I noticed a complete lack of return of the writing and production staff from those first two seasons - especially Graham Yost, a master screenwriter of the fast-paced action-thriller genre. There are a couple of great moments especially in the beginning but overall not nearly as good as the first two seasons. The show needs to do itself a favor and get Yost back in the screenwriting chair for the next season if there is one.

Unfortunately S3 knocks my IMDb rating down to a 7 for overall show - S1/2 are a solid 9.

I'll make this short.

You know that feeling you get, when you bought something you were unsure about, then you open it and instantly regret having spent money on that?

I felt the same way about spending time to watch television series the last decade.

You get invested in the first episodes and then the plot just gets thinner and thinner and after a few episodes you notice what crap you're wasting your time on.

Well there was no remorse on this series for me. This is on a whole different level. This series makes other series look like "The dark Knight" made old comic book movies look like. It's just that good. I didn't think I'd see something this good ever. This will blow up and it's justified.

The plot starts as a family drama and slowly weaves in a con plot while rapidly picking up pace and creating the tensest experience I ever had while watching TV. It's masterfully crafted.

Watch it, you won't regret it.

Any show with Margo Martindale in it is well worth watching I have never seen her in a less that outstanding show. Just finished season three of Sneaky Pete which I thoroughly enjoyed. Hope it has a few more series to run. Acting is uniformly excellent, story is great and moves along at a clip to keep you engaged in what is going on. Great all around show AMazon. AMZN is good at making series like this.

If they don't choose to make this into a show I'm going to boycott Amazon.. Simply Amazing. It felt so real, so raw, you could truly feel the stress and excitement the entire way thru this pilot episode.

Giovanni Ribisi IS Amazing. His best role yet. I don't want to give away any spoilers so I can't say to much but he's playing a double life and plays it amazingly.

Marin Ireland as Julia is very believable and works great with Pete/Marius.

Bryan Cranston is a writer on this show and you most definitely tell. NOT a single show has had me excited and impatiently waiting for the next episode since his previous " Breaking Bad".

This show has Amazing potential to be a big hit. I only hope there are more episodes to come.

Unfortunately I'm afraid many won't make it long enough to see how good this show really is!! At episode 3 I was nearly ready to call it quits and I'm glad I didn't because the show really evolved into something unlike anything else I've ever watched. Sneaky Pete is a slow starter but wants it gets going you'll find it binge watch worthy with its interesting story line and characters you find that you're growing attached too. Giovanni Ribisi is excellent and at his best, and Bryan Cranston plays a great supporting role as he never disappoints.

Although I find Netflix the better value I respect Amazon's quality over quantity perspective. I've found that I am entertained by almost every show they create have created.

The show got an amazing story .. the plot is so original and catchy , upping the level of Thrill and Drama as this could be one of the best Summer/Fall shows this year.

The script is so fast and connected ,, there is not even a single minute where you feel bored or less intrigued specially on (when Walter White is gonna appear :D ).. David Shore bravoo ,, he's so damn experience .. did an amazing job on "House M.D." and on the prematurely and insanely cancelled show "Battle Creek" >> so he knows how to make a show interesting and high rated.

As for the cast; The last i'v seen Giovanni Ribisi was on Ted but on a show it was on "Dads" and it was good but it was a whole lot different character yet here !! gosh this guy is freakishly talented ... and i love Margo Martindale she's amazing and finally let's not forget to mention the genius Bryan Cranston where just mentioning his name made a huge publicity to the show months before the pilot.

Overall,, Amazon is on the verge of great chance to making a TV new Hit show and yes they have the right to only order a pilot to see how the viewers will respond .. i can assure you Amazon or CBS that we want more .. we wanna see the full story of "Pete" the sneaky fox ;)

Excellent cast and script. Doesn't disappoint. Great choice for your next binge.

One of the most clever, entertaining, and gripping series I've seen since Breaking Bad. And the acting was just as good. There was so much story left to tell. I get that some people feel like season 3 fell a little, and that it was a wild goose hunt for the mom but at least Carly got the closure she longed for since the beginning of the series. The big picture has and always was about watching the cons and how they all played out, and THAT did not disappoint! I would have loved to see more development between Julia and Marius. Amazon, clearly there's a fan base, if you don't pick it back up, I hope Netflix will. Such a shame.....it deserved an award, not a cancellation.

Sneaky Pete has kind of built itself on extremely unlikely situations and coincidences, but in the past seasons it was easy to suspend belief as the the plot lines were compelling and actors engrossing, especially season 1.

Season 3 is a big letdown, with a horribly written also-ran story concerning the Bowman siblings' parent, which is a HUGE yawn, led by completely charisma free Libe Barer (Carly); it's almost painful to watch. I found myself fast forwarding during any parts of that storyline, and even the actors involved looked like they couldn't care less about Carly's mission when interacting with her. I felt bad for Margo Martindale (Audrey), a wonderful actress, who had to be tied down to that super tired dead weight of a plot.

Giovanni Ribisi seemed robotic and bored this season, almost looking like he'd rather be anywhere else. The writing was off kilter as well, with Ribisi making a ton of very questionable moves for someone deemed to be so clever. His new love relationship was a chemistry fail. Was really looking forward to bingeing this season, but ended up being pretty disappointed.

Season one was great. I loved the premise and storyline. Then all the decent actors disappear and Giovanni is stuck surrounded by a sub par cast and unbelievable story line for season 2 and 3. The characters act like morons until a exigent circumstance arises then they're the most brilliant friggin minds this side of the Mississippi. Save yourself a lot of time and skip this show.

Whatever it is that is stopping you from tuning into this very well written and extremely engaging series...please rise above and/or let it go; so you can sit back and be entertained by the quickly well developed characters and evenly paced twists and turns of this exceptional TV programme. Think Usual Suspects crossed with The Pink Panther and a little piece of Bloodlines.

You'll soon feel so attached to the main cast, that you're rooting for them all, in their own individual trials and tribulations. Never one to repeat binge watching, this series might just have to break my duck...and I'll consider a rerun...but only in the run up to S4!!

Amazing plot in the 3rd season as well. However, felt a bit hurried in the 9th and 10the episode. Anyways, finished it all in one go. Completely hooked! Cheers to the actors, directors and producers!

EN: Sneaky Pete is one of those shows that hooks you right from the start. I found myself binging multiple episodes back-to-back without even noticing. The story follows Marius, a con artist on the run, who takes on the identity of his cellmate, Pete. What really drew me in was the clever cons. Each scheme was like watching a well-planned puzzle come together, full of surprises that kept me on the edge of my seat. It's a pity the series was canceled after just three seasons because it had so much potential.

While the third season wasn't as strong as the first two, the show overall is definitely worth watching. The characters are well-developed, the schemes are smart, and Bryan Cranston, as always, is excellent. He brings the same kind of brilliance to this series that he did to Breaking Bad. Even though the third season was a bit weaker, Sneaky Pete deserved a proper ending. At the very least, a movie could have wrapped up the story. Despite that, I highly recommend this show. It's an entertaining and addictive series with a talented cast and some truly clever cons.

So I tried watching this because it has an 8.2 on IMDB and fantastic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. Many reviews on here suggested to "give it a chance" and "keep on watching, It'll get better".

So I did just that. I love binge watching quality shows like the Sopranos, Breaking Bad, and so forth, but when it came to this show had to struggle to watch the entire first season. I think I stopped either at the last episode or the second to last episode of the first season. I don't even remember, because I just don't care. I spent much of the time looking at my phone as I waited for it to get better. But it never got better. This show had potential to be something great, but it really fell flat compared to the positive reviews I see on IMDB.

First, the fake New York style acting was really insufferable. The fake accents, the fake mannerisms, they all were just so off and fake! In fact, all of the characters, from the "gangsters", to Marius' family, and to the cops, they all seemed like actors playing a shallow role. The entire atmosphere feels really kiddish and watered-down. Bryan Cranston is not at all a convincing New York mob boss. Not at all. And I'm not just talking about the fake accent, I also mean that he seems way to soft and stereotypical to be any kind of realistic underlord. This pretty much goes for almost all of the characters; they just weren't convincing or even interesting.

Second, The entire story just isn't that engaging. The idea that Marius can show up, pretend to be someone else's grandson after 20 years, and become an integral part of the family just isn't that compelling or realistic. Somehow this family who is deeply involved in the law is duped by Marius left and right. Anytime they have a suspicion, Marius is ten steps ahead of them. Yet at the same time, Marius talks like a hood, and is extremely familiar with crime. He is so obvious, but of course his new family somehow can't quite figure it out.

Another reviewer mentioned that this show was originally intended for CBS, and that's exactly how it i feels. Like a shallow show that would be shown on network television, interrupted by frequent advertisements. This is not a deep quality drama, or an on your edge suspense show. It certainly shouldn't be rated an 8.2 on IMDB. This show is just an average CBS style show.

Great storyline concept. Clever writing. Brilliantly acted. Knowing little about the series, I tuned in for Margo Martindale. I love her ability to be gentle and nurturing, then turn into a no nonsense truth sayer. This series offers so much more than that! Sneaky Pete keeps you guessing and pulls you in. A fine tale that weaves together family, desperation and criminal thinking when it comes to protecting your loved ones. I love a show that doesn't show it's full hand right away. There were times when my husband and I audibly gasped at a turn of events in a scene. It is totally binge worthy. We finished up the series today, instead of watching football (a first for us).

Every single character becomes involved in their own convoluted plot lines, even the 17 year old 'Nancy Drew'. There was enough content to be found within 'Pete's' world and understandably there were issues that needed to be answered for from Season 1. However, it seems that Pete isn't the only scam artist amongst his adopted family. Things get confusing around episode six where I couldn't keep up with the myriad storylines. In fact, I started to zone out at points. It was a good effort but a little too ambitious.

Sneaky Pete was originally offered to CBS, who turned it down before Amazon gave it a home. This much is apparent from the show's storytelling, as it pads out what could have been a two hour film into a 10 hour series with diverting subplots and busy work to keep supporting characters spinning. There are times when you sense that it would be too quick for characters to move from A to B, so they have them tread water with narrative contrivances (eg the parole officer who has a decent amount of time committed to his presence and then abruptly disappears midway through the show).

The pilot episode, shot prior to the rest of the episodes, had some beautiful visuals but the rest of the program is aesthetically quite flat and procedural. It looks like something you would find on CBS, but with some f-bombs dropped in.

Ribisi is good, although his constant random lemon sucking facial contortions at inappropriate times are an odd choice for the character. To be a convincing con man one would think you shouldn't draw attention to yourself, but he often looks like a bad De Niro impersonator in an SNL sketch. Beyond that, he's fun to watch and brings more to the character than the script affords.

Bryan Cranston was so brilliant in Breaking Bad but one gets the sense that his producer credit on Sneaky Pete caused him to be surrounded by too many yes men that wouldn't tell him to keep things in check. His scenery-chewing gangster is tonally wrong for the show, and every time the main story randomly cuts away to his storyline it really beaks the momentum and doesn't seem to serve much of a purpose. There's a particularly awkward nine minute (!) monologue in episode 4 that you can tell Cranston thought was going to be an Emmy moment, but it simply doesn't work, because his character for whatever reason just never seems particularly threatening or intimidating. He's a bit of a cliché, and I think Cranston is an incredibly gifted actor but I believe he let his ego get the best of him here and perhaps the role should have been reduced or been cast with another actor. Some of the misfiring also comes down to the writing - the dialogue in the monologue, for example, just isn't that good.

I'm being a bit harsh on Sneaky Pete, but that's because in today's streaming era, TV is at an all-time high water mark and shows must push harder than ever before to stand out. Pete comes packaged appealingly - an Amazon original series with a strong cast and talented producers (Graham Yost and David Shore) - but it ultimately feels like a show that would have felt more at home on a basic cable network, and never quite feels like more than just a passable one-time binge.

Sneaky Pete is an original fast moving interesting well done series. I was waiting for series three to come out &wondered if it would be as good as one and two. It doesn't disappoint. It's another Con game with acting that is superb. It's a fun fast moving drama with interesting characters going through different life emotions-- If that makes sense... A roller coaster ride that you can't get off. I can't stop with one episode and it's a binge worthy series. An original top notch show that isn't like any other series. I am tired of the same old detective dramas and hope it has more seasons. I LOVE this show for the originality and characters. It's an Inteligent show for a change. Also the music is fantastic...!

Gotta bring it back!! Loved every single minute of it, great actors, amazing talent all around. Binge worthy.