David Chase says 25-year golden period was a ‘blip’ and he is being told to ‘dumb down’ productions
  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I tried to get into it because of all the praise it has received and was confused about why it received said praise. It tells a story of a bunch of sleaze bags, with king sleaze bag emotionally wounded because of all his sleaze bag actions. Okay… That was already done a dozen times before The Sopranos came along. What’s the big deal?

    • beardown@lemm.ee
      3·
      10 months ago

      Youre missing the point if that’s what you got from it

      It’s a metaphor about the decline of America. The mob stuff is just window dressing used to tell that story. Just as how the tortoise and the hare isn’t actually a story about two animals