Mitch Glazer is a Miami native. He based many of the stories in the show on experiences he heard about growing up and whilst researching later as a journalist. He originally thought it would be a feature film, but he had too much material so it became a TV series.
Creator Mitch Glazer wrote the role of Ben Diamond with Danny Huston in mind.
Renewed for a second season before premiering the first one, like the other Starz show Boss.
Leland Orser had previously played Jeffrey Dean Morgan's henchman/catspaw in "Enterprise" (2001) {Carpenter Street (#3.11)}.
In the Seabreeze bookie's office Jeffrey Dean Morgan sits opposite a blackboard on which a name has been erased and replaced with "Comedian", the character he played in Watchmen.
Dominik García-Lorido's own parents and grandparents had emigrated from Cuba to the US in the wake of Fidel Castro's takeover of that nation.
When Ike, Jeffrey Dean Morgan visits the bookmaker, highlighted on the odds' blackboard there is a Flagler greyhound called Comedian. The Comedian was Jeffrey Dean Morgan's character in the Watchmen movie.
In the Seabreeze bookie's office Jeffrey Dean Morgan sits opposite a blackboard on which a name has been erased and replaced with "Comedian", the character he played in "Watchmen".