It sounds like it is multi-part, so I thought I would wait until everything is out and then spring for the $5. We're keeping tabs on our pennies around here these days.
I hear you - and to be honest it's confusing as to how it works. But yeah, it's $5 and you get a month subscription so you can watch anything the Metrograph has running - it's a really great art house.
I was waiting to get the whole thing but looks like I shouldn't sleep on it.
Yeah, it'll still cost no more or less than $5 if you subscribe now or later. After the 10th you'd have 4 days to binge all the episodes. Six and Seven are longer - about 45 minutes each. And after episode 7 will follow a "pizza panel" with me, Scarr, Drew Nieporent, Miriam Weiskind (The Za Report) and Anthony Barile (owner of the Three of Cups where I worked before Lombardi's). That'll run about an hour and it was pretty fun.
It did live up to my expectations! The narrative around the entire thing is so interesting. I'll be honest, as someone who's obsessed with pizza I could probably just watch the entirety of the raw footage for "Eat To Win" and be thrilled, but learning more about your story, Leeds' story, Shapiro's story and how he weaves it all together is truly a feat. I've watched the first three parts with my partner who is no where near as interested in pizza as I am (she's coming around though 
) and she's thrown her hands up at the end of each episode being like "THATS IT?! IT'S OVER ALREADY!?". It's been awesome - like the lost art of watching a great TV show as it airs and having to wait until the following week to see what happens next (in this case a couple days).
It's interesting because the footage of you at Lombardi's and the footage of Leeds and Shapiro cruising around NYC going to L&B, John's etc, got me so excited, and I wondered if it was just because of my deep love for pizza, but seeing my partner be just as glued to the screen as me shows there is something bigger to it.
You mentioned that you didn't like seeing some of the footage of you, but I think it is raw and honest and I love that. I LOVE THE PIZZA TATTOO by the way ha!!
Hope more people here watch it, they don't know what they're missing!
Peter - it is 5 dollars for a month subscription to Metrograph and the entire thing airs within that month. You're getting essentially a glorified mini series, totaling like 4 hours or something for 5 bucks. Worth it!!
Thanks man!!
One of the partners at Joe's watched the first 3 episodes a year ago with his wife and she had the perfect description: she said it was like being in a Beastie Boys video!! I really like that!
There's so much footage that didn't make it into the series. Shapiro shot 100 hours to get 1 hour of footage, so there's about 396 hours on the cutting room floor!!! Including everything with my wife!!! Once it gets picked up, there's a good chance of a "season 2".. .
I was over 300lbs in a few of the scenes and it just disgusts me. I talk about that in one of the episodes, it's self-inflicted mutilation - I just always put myself behind the 8-ball. I'm at 198 today, was down to 188 at the beginning of the pandemic, but at least I'm within striking distance... No way could I open a shop and be there 12 hours a day if I was overweight...
i got the pizza tattoos in the back of Lombardi's after hours. People forget that tattoos were illegal in NYC from 1961 to 1997. A lot of artists had shops in NJ where it was legal and then had private clients in NYC. I got mine done by Dan-O, a well-known artist in the East Village back then.
