5.850 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestRay comes clean and finds an unlikely ally in his search for the truth.
Two lifelong friends in Philadelphia pose as DEA agents to rob small-time drug dealers. It's a perfect grift—until they choose the wrong mark and become targets of a massive narcotics enterprise.
Acting
Brian Tyree Henry and Wagner Moura's frayed-brother chemistry
Writing
Peter Craig's dialogue—funny until it isn't
Production
Philadelphia as suffocating character, not backdrop
Creator
Peter Craig
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Dennis Tafoya's 2009 novel of the same name, which Craig optioned years before Yellowstone made him bankable.
The DEA impersonation scheme is ripped from actual Philadelphia cases—cops confirmed the grift's real viability to the writers' room.
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