The Many Saints of Newark
Slate's Spoiler Specials
Slate Podcasts
3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. This week, Slate’s movie critic Dana Stevens is joined by Rolling Stone’s chief TV critic and host of the popular podcast Too Long, Didn’t Watch, Alan Sepinwall to spoil the new Sopranos prequel film, The Many Saints of Newark.
The film follows a young Anthony Soprano, growing up in a very tumultuous era in Newark, N.J. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, whose influence over his nephew will help shape the impressionable teenager into the all-powerful mob boss: Tony Soprano.
Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.
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Podcast production by Morgan Flannery.
Hosts
Dana Stevens is Slate’s movie critic. You can read her review here.
Alan Sepinwall is Rolling Stone’s chief TV critic and host of the popular podcast Too Long, Didn’t Watch. You can read his review here.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:04.2 | I want to tell you my secret now. |
| 0:07.0 | I see this. |
| 0:10.0 | Silent freed is people. |
| 0:13.9 | No, I am the father. |
| 0:17.5 | Oh, gosh. |
| 0:22.1 | What's in the box? What's in the box? |
| 0:25.3 | You blew it up. |
| 0:29.3 | Damn you all the hell. |
| 0:32.9 | Hello, and welcome to another Slate spoiler special podcast. |
| 0:36.3 | I'm Dana Stevens, the movie critic at Slate, |
| 0:38.3 | and today we have a special crossover episode. I'm honored to be joined by Alan Seppinwall, |
| 0:43.1 | who is the TV critic at Rolling Stone, also the host of the podcast Too Long Didn't Watch, |
| 0:48.3 | which just finished its first season. It's about to start its second. And also very useful for |
| 0:52.9 | our conversation is the co-author of a book called The Sopranos Sessions, which we'll probably get into in the course of our discussion, but which, among other things, is a compendium of a lot of interviews with David Chase, creator of the Sopranos. |
| 1:04.6 | And that is opposite for today's conversation, because we're talking about the many saints of Newark, the new prequel to the Sopranos. We will talk about its |
| 1:12.5 | relationship temporarily to the show that was created in part by David Chase, written by him, |
| 1:18.0 | produced by him, and came very close to being directed by him, but is in fact directed by Alan Taylor, |
| 1:23.8 | another Sopranos veteran. Welcome, Alan. It's really nice to have you on the show. |
| 1:28.1 | Thank you so much for having me. So I guess I'll start the way I usually do with the spoiler specials. Since this is not a review, but an actual wading into the Sopranos weeds, I just want to get out of the way at the top. Did you like this movie? Are you glad that it exists? And do you think that it augments the Sopranos universe in a meaningful way. |
| 1:46.3 | I liked the movie. I wish. Did you like this movie? Are you glad that it exists? And do you think that it augments the Sopranos universe in a meaningful way? |
| 1:46.9 | I liked the movie. I wish there was more of it, oddly, because it feels like there's about a half hour to an hour of missing material in the movie. And David Chase and I talked about for Rolling Stone, the fact that he wanted it to be two hours or less. That's what he feels like a movie should be. And you can tell that there's a lot of shorthand going on and a lot of the stories that you and I will be talking about. But despite that, I still really enjoyed being immersed back in the world. It felt sopranoes-y to me. Yeah, I have to agree with you. I mean, I didn't feel any need for this movie to |
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