The Sopranos Star who saved Netflix and the beginning of the streaming revolution

By Jonathan Klotz
| Announce 3 days ago

The sopranos It led to the golden age of TV and helped turn HBO into a prestigious TV power station, but no one would have guessed that one of the show’s laziness stars would go on to create history. Steven Van Zandt, the legendary musician New Jersey who raised the fame of playing for Bruce Springsteen, made his first appearance acting as Silvio Dante, Bada Bing manager and one of Tony’s most loyal captains. Years after the innovative series went off the air, Van Zandt took the role of Frank Tagliano’s LilyhammerThe first streaming series available on Netflix.

Big fish in a small pit

The house of the cards Debuted in 2013 as the first original Netflix series, but in 2012, Lilyhammer He made his first appearance as a joint production with Norwy NRK1. The series includes Tagliano Van Zandt, turned into a rat for personal reasons and forced it into a witness defense agency, living in Lillehammer, the same place he assumes the New York crowd will never look for it. It does not take long to Tagliano, who is now going by the name Giovanni Henriksen, the nickname “Johnny,” to befriend a young woman and her son, solving the local wolf problem, and starting to establish herself as the new boss.

Echo the role of Silvio on The sopranos. Johnny’s unique talents made him a very large fish in a small Norwegian pit, but was still a fish out of water, and Scandinavia, crime is treated very differently than in New York. By the end of Lilyhammer Season 1, he has embraced his new life, and it was clear that the mix of a series of crime drama and black comedy was very popular about Netflixwith fans eagerly waiting for season 2.

New Entertainment Life

Lilyhammer very popular on Netflix, not because of Steven Van Zandt or the quality of the series itself, but because it is innovative streamwhich, until then, was treated as a syndicate back in the day and was home to re -run sitting procedures and comedy. Back then, the series faced a battle up for reception and was considered worse than a “normal” show because it was only available on streaming. Today that sounds like a crazy take, with a big chunk of the best shows of the last decade existing as digital media only.

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It is a tribute to Van Zandt’s talented, creative thinking, who not only starred in the series but co-created, worked on scripts, and even directs some of the episodes he could go from guitarist Rock Hall of Fame to an actor brought his vision to life on what would soon become the biggest step in history. More people today use streaming than cable or even television broadcasting, and Lilyhammer Not only is the lost connection between media but one of the most important shows in Netflix history. To anyone watching The sopranos Annually, it is worth looking at the absurd comedy of the Van Zandt submitted series.

Lilyhammer Still available for streaming only on Netflix.