Why a show about ‘The Godfather’ is the best Jewish TV right now ‘The Offer,’ a miniseries on the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece, emphasizes Jewish resonances in an iconic immigrant tale. Published July 25, 2022 There’s a moment midway through “The Offer” when enraged film executive Robert Evans (Matthew Goode), a senior executive at Paramount Pictures, demands to know why Al Ruddy (Miles Teller), the producer of an as-yet-unknown movie called “The Godfather,” stopped off in New York instead of coming immediately to see him in Los Angeles. “I wanted a good bagel,” Ruddy says. “Just isn’t the...