Set in Montreal between the early 2000s and early 2010s, Vito Rizzuto, the boss of the real-life Rizzuto crime family, seeks to bring peace to the criminal world in the city. For his leading performance, Coates won the Best Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role at the Canadian Screen Awards, while Konyves won the Best Writing, Drama Series. The series was critically acclaimed by critics at the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail, and was nominated for Best Dramatic Series at the Canadian Screen Awards. The narrative is structured chronologically from the early 2000s, in a real-time fashion, also relying on flashbacks to fill in gaps from the past. The first season was largely set in Montreal, with the second season also including Hamilton, Ontario. The second season introduces Domenic Cosoleto ( Louis Ferreira) and Enzo Cosoleto ( Daniel Kash) of the Cosoleto crime family in Hamilton, and Teresa Langana ( Anna Hopkins) and Christian Langana (Gianni Falcone), children of a mob boss in Italy who wants to expand their territory.īad Blood was filmed in Montreal, Quebec, and Sudbury, Ontario. The first season also features Vito's father Nicolo Rizzuto ( Paul Sorvino), the patriarch of the family, along with Vito's son Nico (Brett Donahue), who hopes to take over as boss. The Rizzuto crime family consists of crime boss Vito Rizzuto ( Anthony LaPaglia), high-ranking member Declan Gardiner ( Kim Coates), consigliere Bruno Bonsignori ( Enrico Colantoni), and associate Gio ( Tony Nappo).
The second season departs from the book and is fully fictional. The first season is a dramatization of the rise and fall of the real-life Rizzuto crime family, a Montreal-based organized crime family, and is based on the 2015 book Business or Blood: Mafia Boss Vito Rizzuto's Last War by Antonio Nicaso and Peter Edwards.
Initially intended as a miniseries, it was renewed by Rogers Media for a second season in March 2018, which was broadcast on Citytv and FX Canada. A French-language version of the show premiered on Novemon Ici Radio-Canada Télé under the title Les liens du sang. The series ran for two seasons totaling 14 episodes until November 29, 2018. The show premiered on Citytv on September 21, 2017. Bad Blood is a Canadian crime drama television series created and produced by Simon Barry.
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