Episode #240

The Godfather Part II

(1974)

You broke my heart, Fredo.

Pacino, Coppola and the rest of the gang try to get lightning to strike twice . . . We left Michael Corleone on a sinister note at the end of the first film, and they fully lean into that in this second chapter. If the mantra is “family, family, family,” what does it mean if–slowly but surely–the Godfather is pushing his family away? That’s the question at the heart of this sequel, and we discuss how successful it is.