Yes, I guess there is a difference in viewer response between seeing a story in small doses and seeing it all at once. Somebody should take these long sagas and edit them into, say, a three- or four-hour sit down.
On the other hand, the Sopranos movie, The Many Saints of Newark, was one of the worst films I've seen in years. Horribly disappointing prequel written after-the-fact of a successful tv series.
I speak Italian and had lived amonst the mob before I moved to where I am now; so The Sopranos had a familiarity to me; there were a number of "asides" in Italian or the American half-Italian figures of speech, and a particular kind of absurdity and dark humor that I enjoyed. I watched it on cable well after the original broadcast, but serially.
Yellowstone looks interesting.I read they had some squabbles with Sam Elliott in the prequel, 1883, over the historically inaccurate gay stuff and woketude. Would like to catch up with the saga one of these days. Helen Mirren's wardrobe in 1923, for one thing!
The series appears to have influenced her in real life. She wore a beautiful prairie-style dress recently when she took part in the Willie Nelson 90th Birthday broadcast, which was amazing, btw. It's still available to stream over the internet on CBS.com/
Your perspective is an interesting one.
Even though there are things you saw in the Sopranos that as someone with Italian heritage or at least, immersive exposure to Italians that you no doubt recognized.
My wife who is half Italian, had the same experience-there were things she understood quite well.
One of the things I try to stay on guard against is to keep in mind what I watch in “Yellowstone” is entertainment, and it needs to stay in that box. It isn’t history, and I think a lot of people who have watched it did not sandbox it in that fashion.
They think because they watched it, they understand Montana, cowboys, horses, cattle, reservations, Indians, etc.
They forget it is not only meant as entertainment, but is also someone trying to indoctrinate people to their viewpoint. Entertainment and indoctrination are not mutually exclusive for many people, and they are certainly doing it in “Yellowstone”. I have lost a lot of respect for Kevin Costner, because his fingerprints on it are very telling to me.
I wish it weren’t so.
That said, I find the performance of the Beth Dutton character in “Yellowstone” pretty amazing. That role is very well acted.