From Jonathan Klotz
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The sopranos The golden age of television was initiated and HBO made it into a prestige television power plant, but nobody would have suspected that one of the second stars of the show would continue to write history. Steven van Zandt, the legendary New Jersey musician, who was famous for Bruce Springsteen, gave his acting debut as Silvio Dante, manager of Bada Bing and one of Tony’s most loyal captains. Years after the groundbreaking series went out of the air, van Zandt took on the role of Frank Tagliano in LilyhammerThe first streaming series that is available on Netflix.
Big fish in a small pond
House 2013 debuted as the very first Netflix original series, but in 2012, Lilyhammer celebrated his debut as a joint production with NRK1 in Norway. The series shows van Zandt’s Tagliano, became a rat for personal reasons and forced himself to the witness protection authority, which lived in Lillehammer, the only place where he assumes that the New York Mob will never search for him. It doesn’t take long for Tagliano, now under the name Giovanni Henriksen, with the nickname “Johnny” to make friends with a young woman and son, to solve the local wolf problem and to establish itself as a new boss.
The role of Silvios on the role of The sopranosJohnny starts a night club as his surgical basis, the Flamingo, and quickly shows why he was referred to as a “fixer” in New York by transforming the local motorcycle crew from rivals into allies. Johnny’s unique talents made him a very large fish in a small Norwegian pond, but he was still a fish out of the water, and in Scandinavia the crime is treated very differently than in New York. Until the end of Lilyhammer Season 1, he accepted his new life and it was clear NetflixWith fans who are looking forward to season 2.
The new age of entertainment
Lilyhammer was an unexpected hit on Netflix, not because of Steven van Zandt or the quality of the series itself, but because it was pioneering work StreamingUntil then, as before, like syndication and homeland for repetitions of procedures and sitcoms. At that time, the series was confronted in a tough struggle for acceptance and was naturally considered worse than a “normal” show, since it was only available during streaming. Today that sounds like a crazy attitude, with a large part of the best shows from the past decade only as a digital media.
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It is a tribute to the talented, creative spirit of Van Zandt, who not only played in the series, but also worked together on scripts and even led some of the consequences that he from the Hall of Fame rock guitar to an actor who brought his vision to life could be brought to life in history. More people today use streaming as cable or radio television and Lilyhammer is not only the lack of connection between the media, but one of the most important shows in the history of Netflix. For everyone who is watching The sopranos Every year it is worth checking the absurdly comedy of the criminal underestimated series by van Zandts.
Lilyhammer is still available to just stream on Netflix.
