Carmine Lupertazzi Jr.

Little Carmine is heir to his father's crime family, and the very sound of him tells you it won't be simple. He mangles words with malapropisms, talks in half-baked philosophical riffs, and clearly fancies himself a thinker. He wants respect and power, but he'd rather negotiate his way there than shoot for it.

The show uses him as comic relief with teeth — every scene mines his verbal train wrecks for laughs while quietly tracking a real man navigating a violent business he's not built for. Ray Abruzzo plays the pomposity absolutely straight, never winking at the audience, which is exactly why it lands.