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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8572295"><p>My last post jogged this thought, but I had that reaction to the Many Saints of Newark. I had heard there was a lot of political subtext (and it isn't like the Sopranos never had political subtext anyways), or that it was pandering to current political issues. I waited to watch it, and while politics was in it for sure: the Newark Riots are an important backdrop, the character Harold, who is black, is pretty important to the story, I can't say it really struck me as being all that much different from anything the Sopranos had done before (Honestly the episode Christopher was way more didactic than the Many Saints of Newark). I liked the movie quite a bit. The riots worked well as a backdrop because they did five it this atmosphere and a growing sense of tension. And Harold was a really good character. The actor was someone you wanted to watch on screen and he added a real sense of stakes for the main character, Dickie Moltisanti. I think my only quibble is they could have made Harold a little less tied to the political landscape he inhabited and given him more personal motivations like the other characters but that is fairly mild and I may change my mind about that on repeat viewings if I notice more details about his character.</p></blockquote><p></p>