The Prestige TV Show That Didn’t Need to Be Made Into a Movie
The stakes were high for a <em>Sopranos</em> prequel. <em>The Many Saints of Newark</em> doesn’t measure up.
by David Sims
Sep 28, 2021
3 minutes
Whether you call it a spin-off, a prequel, or a companion film, is inescapably tied to David Chase’s HBO show, , which is still one of the greatest television series ever made. , the blares, with its actual title in a far smaller font underneath. Written by Chase and Lawrence Konner and directed by the mainstay Alan Taylor, the film is set decades before the show and mixes a self-contained drama of 1960s Mafia life with backstory targeted at devoted
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