‘The Many Saints of Newark’ is fine – but there’s a much better mob epic on HBO Max

For everything that’s been said already about The Many Saints of Newark, the long-awaited David Chase-penned Sopranos prequel movie that’s now in theaters and on HBO Max, I find myself nevertheless reminded of an Orson Welles quote about The Godfather that also feels applicable to the Sopranos universe. The Godfather, Welles once complained, “was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.” Similarly, Tony Soprano and the rest of the wannabe punk gangsters with idiotic nicknames have no business pretending to be part of a mob epic, as far as I’m concerned. Not when there’s a different one that you should absolutely check out, that's also on HBO Max. It's the Italian-language show Gomorrah, which is not only a sublimely great mob series -- with much grittier characters and superior storytelling, less cringe-y dialogue, and a boss in the form of Genny Savastano who makes the head of the New Jersey mafia look like a used car salesman.

But Gomorrah is also, in fact, one of the best TV shows available anywhere right now.

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