Tag: Michael Gandolfini
REVIEW: Daredevil: Born Again – Season 1, Episode 2, “Optics”
I was, to put it mildly, less than thrilled with the first episode of Daredevil: Born Again. Its follow-up, “Optics,” is better, perhaps benefiting from getting past the season’s setup and jumping into a plot that keeps Matt busy. It also has some nice small touches, particularly one I didn’...
Read MoreREVIEW: Daredevil: Born Again – Season 1, Episode 1, “Heaven’s Half Hour”
Daredevil: Born Again may be the last straw for a lot of people when it comes to Marvel. The revival of the amazing Netflix series that introduced Matt Murdock and his street-level crime cesspool to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (don’t listen to all that “Now, Daredevil is part of the MCU” n...
Read MoreDaredevil: Born Again Adds Cast Members
The cast of Daredevil: Born Again is taking shape, though not in the way fans want. A few days ago, Deadline reported that Michael Gandolfini, son of Sopranos star James Gandolfini, was joining the Disney+ series in an undisclosed role, though Deadline thinks he may be playing “an ambitious guy fr...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Many Saints of Newark (2021)
The Many Saints of Newark was a risky proposition from the get-go. To follow up something as beloved and intricately constructed as The Sopranos is one of the clearest examples of a fool’s errand imaginable. It becomes greater in the wake of El Camino, which added nothing to Breaking Bad and ruine...
Read MoreDo We Need The Many Saints of Newark?
The Many Saints of Newark is coming at a serendipitous time for me. From late April into early May of this year, I finally watched The Sopranos. (I’m not sure how an Italian from Staten Island avoided it for so long, but here we are.) It was one of those rare instances where mountains of … ...
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