Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos (Season 1)

Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos (2024) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Director Alex Gibney traces how one man's instincts grew into the series that reset television in 1999.

The real subject is David Chase himself — the writer who created The Sopranos. He talks through his childhood, his slow road into the business, and how his own fears and a thorny bond with his mother fed into Tony Soprano, the mob boss who keeps a standing appointment with his therapist. Archive footage of James Gandolfini sits alongside interviews with the people who built the show: Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Steven Van Zandt.

Gibney shapes this less as a victory lap than as a look under the hood — where scenes came from, why that ending had to be that ending, what Chase packed into all the things left unsaid. It rewards both the rewatch crowd and anyone still circling the show. Stream Wise Guy (2024) online on iFILM.