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‘The Godfather’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan

The Rewatchables

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The Death of Sonny

"It's hard to even remember all the stuff I knew about the movie before I saw it," she said. "The whole series is about moral complexity. There is no good guy. There isno bad guy. It's a very cynical movie. It's just shades of bad." Vito has this sense of kind of like duty and what is right and what is a dirty business versus what is not a dirty business? To him, running prostitutes is not adirty business. But there's also anachronistic governance in post-World War II America where people are still relying on these almost, are anachronism mechanisms for Governance.

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