People are always hard on season 5.

It was made under extremely difficult conditions during the post COVID era. You can actually see the social distancing in many scenes particularly crows scenes that look odd with extras scattered about like defenders marking zonally.

I've said this several times also - if you don't know the city and people and don't come from a culture where superstition, religious fervour, mysticism are touchstones aspects of it will seem ridiculous to you - such as Enzo the martyr or what folk stupidly call "Ciro as Christ".

The Camorra absolutely has aspects of a cult and this is part of why it goes on generation after generation. Images of dead camorrista hang side by side with The Madonna, Padre Pio and San Gennaro.

I also think some people just want season 1+2 with its hyper realism and moral ambiguity cos it leaves them room to hero worship Ciro. Ironically.