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Critic Reviews
Sep 3, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Outstanding .... Happily “Wise Guy” overcomes this gimmickry [a recreation of the office of Dr. Melfi] because the stories and the clips and the outtakes and audition footage are so incredibly addictive, and because one final gimmick pays off, big. But the big draw is Chase. Reluctant though he may be, he’s a master storyteller.
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ColliderSep 6, 2024
Season 1 Review:
If you're a fan of The Sopranos, from its unpredictable beginning until that frustrating end, Wise Guys is a must-watch that will make you want to revisit Tony and his gang all over again. It also has the most perfect ending for a documentary that this writer has seen in a long while.
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Sep 4, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The viewer experience is all the more enriched because the two-part HBO documentary IS about Chase. Over the course of 160 minutes, “Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos” establishes itself as the definitive history of a series that is almost universally regarded as one of the greatest works in the history of television.
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Sep 9, 2024
Season 1 Review:
“Wise Guy” is less biography than investigation, culturally and psychologically analyzing how Chase’s creation met America on the verge of shifting away from the white picket fence dream. But the most fascinating scenes are the ones where Gibney uses his interviewing skills to analyze Chase, or more accurately, has Chase analyze himself.
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Sep 3, 2024
Season 1 Review:
What Mr. Gibney shows us of the audition process for the pilot is oddly, almost morbidly fascinating, insinuating that the final casting was perfect and any alterations would have changed it to the point of mutilation. .... The visuals are always kinetic; the flow is rhythmic. And while “The Sopranos” might be an easy subject, Mr. Chase quite clearly isn’t.
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Sep 11, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The first 10 minutes are saddled with nervous, chaotic, overlapping editing that speeds through Chase’s biography to better focus on the show itself. Once the documentary takes a breath and starts telling a story, it suddenly becomes watchable. But “Wise Guy” ends by mimicking the show’s divisively abrupt final note, which leaves the impression that there’s a deficit of original ideas animating this endeavor.
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