Yes, ‘Vaffanculo’ is The Right Word for ‘The Sopranos’ Prequel

‘The Many Saints of Newark’ is tasteless spaghetti with a recipe that David Chase should burn.

Akos Peterbencze
Vulnerable Man
4 min readOct 5, 2021

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Alessandro Nivola as Dickie Moltisanti, standing at the house.
“I just want to know who wrote this shitty script.” Photo: HBO Max

Many years ago, David Chase said, if he gets to make The Many Saints of Newark one day, it won’t be about Tony Soprano. I guess we just didn’t listen — or remember it.

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Akos Peterbencze
Vulnerable Man

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