This was surprisingly very good. I was expecting a desperate prequel but it had a purpose behind it and was about something, giving a credible background to Tony Soprano and the wider historical environment of the Mafia in their heyday. It is occasionally thrilling and unpredictable and though it’s nothing really like The Sopranos in tone (no psychoanalysis or dream sequences), it revels in characterisation.
The only thing about it that really annoyed me were the two shoddy acting jobs by the actors playing Paulie Walnuts and Silvio Dante. It was something out of Saturday Night Live but a particularly bad episode.
But overall, a pleasant surprise, and it reminded me a little bit of A Bronx Tale (1993).
And this has one hell of an ending. I recommend.
Wanderings and ... wonderings. 