Why Martin Scorsese claims to not "get" the acclaimed HBO series The Sopranos

David Chase, the creator of the classic American drama series, HBO's The Sopranos, reveals an interesting fact about the legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese. During a recent conversation in the podcast It Happened in Hollywood, hosted by The Hollywood Reporter, David Chase revealed that Martin Scorsese, director of movies like The Irishman, Goodfellas, and Taxi Driver, doesn't 'get' HBO's The Sopranos (1999-2007).

Here's everything that Chase revealed about Martin Scorsese and why he does not get his series.

Martin Scorsese does not get HBO's The Sopranos, as revealed by David Chase

David Chase was recently in conversation with filmmaker Alex Gibney (director of HBO's 2024 series Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos) in a podcast interview by The Hollywood Reporter. In this conversation at the podcast, It Happened in Hollywood, Chase revealed that Martin Scorsese didn't like the legendary classic American show as he failed to relate to it:

"Marty Scorsese doesn’t like the show. He said, ‘I don’t get it – it’s like all these trees and shit.' "

When questioned if Scorsese ever admitted officially that he didn't like Chase's show, Chase replied that he did and went on to explain that The Raging Bull director could neither understand the show, nor relate to it, as he talked about in a 2019 interview with Sight and Sound Magazine.

Chase details that the fact that the mafias are all living in big houses in New Jersey just felt unrealistic to Scorsese. Chase also reveals that Scorsese said he couldn't watch more than one episode of the show.

"I think I only saw one episode … because I can’t identify with that generation of the underworld. They live in New Jersey with the big houses? I don’t get it. They use language – four-letter words – in front of their daughters, at the dinner table? I don’t get that. I just didn’t grow up that way,"

However, Chase takes the comments in full stride as he replies that the environment he grew up in was different from that of Scorsese's, so what he is portraying in HBO's The Sopranos is something that he himself can relate to, even if Scorsese cannot.

"It’s very simple, He grew up in New York in Little Italy, and there is Five Families organized crime there. That’s what he depicted. I grew up in New Jersey and there was branches of suburban New Jersey and there was branches of Five Families organized crime, but they’re different from the ones in New York, a different culture. People go to the suburbs to build fancy houses and get trees and stuff. It’s that simple. It was real for that place. Like his is real for his,"

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