# Gangland Undercover (2015)

> A former meth dealer turned ATF informant infiltrates the Vagos motorcycle gang, risking everything to earn his way out of prison.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/55339

## Facts

- Seasons: 2
- Episodes: 14
- Episode runtime: 40 min
- Status: Canceled
- Genres: crime, drama
- Created by: Charles Falco
- Network: History
- Cast: Damon Runyan, Ari Cohen, Paulino Nunes, James Cade, Ian Matthews, Melanie Scrofano, Don Francks, Stephen Eric McIntyre
- TMDB rating: 8.0/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4341996/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: gritty, tense, paranoid, bleak, gripping

## Synopsis

Gangland Undercover (2015-2017) is a American true story crime drama series created by Charles Falco for History. Damon Runyan plays Charles Falco, a meth dealer who becomes an ATF informant to avoid twenty years in prison, and Ari Cohen plays Mike 'Koz' Kozinski, one of the club members he must win over inside the Vagos motorcycle gang. Falco's engine is simple and dangerous: he must keep his cover intact while gathering evidence against men who live by a code where respect is earned through fear. Each episode turns on the constant threat of discovery, tense club meetings, and the moral weight of betraying people who have accepted him as a brother. Across two seasons and fourteen episodes of roughly forty minutes each, the show moves through rivalries, gang violence, and the slow erosion of Falco's sense of who he is. The series is grounded and gritty, built on a memoir and documented historical research, with a bleak, paranoid atmosphere and a sense of real stakes. Fans of Sons of Anarchy, Donnie Brasco and The Shield will find resonance in its portrait of undercover infiltration and outlaw brotherhood. The series was canceled after its second season, leaving its story unfinished.

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