The Sopranos (HBO) TV Show • Page 16

Happened to catch the last half of Blue Comet on HBO now and it’s up there with the best episodes but Bobby’s death might be the most heartbreaking for me in the series

 

absolute masterpiece of editing though, one of the best of all time

 

the writing and characters, and how they all blend, for sopranos, is terrific.

Cheers was a good one, with all the characters, and writing, too. It was different time though, and to me, Sopranos brought out the vulgarities like never before.

 

Ladies and gents, I’m about to start this for the first time ever (in about 20 mins).

I know it’s the mafia and I know Gandolfini is the main character and that’s it. I’ve literally never seen even ten seconds of this show.

It’s finally time to correct that.

 

Godspeed

 

You’re in for a hell of a journey. Enjoy!

 

Don’t google anything! Hope you become obsessed like the rest of us!

 

YA HEAR THAT T? HE SAID HE'S NEVER EVEN SEEN TEN SECONDS OF THE SHOW

 

The Sopranos is a pretty good consensus choice for best television show. In terms of influence and impact, most of the other big names don't even come close. The Wire has the questionable last season, and people forget how boring and cliche a lot of the domestic stuff (McNulty and his ex, Kima and her girlfriend) is. Deadwood was better and better each season, but the lack of a proper ending ruins it for a lot of people. Mad Men feels constrained by its budget and the censorship of basic cable. Breaking Bad didn't really get good until its third season. The Shield has too much nu-metal. Stuff that I would place highly, like John from Cincinnati, is too weird for most people. The new Twin Peaks is a masterpiece, but I look at that as more of a long film.

 

The newest TP is also too weird for most viewers. Which is a shame because how fascinating it is.

 

I would agree with that, but fans of the original show and fans of Lynch knew that going in. People thought John from Cincinnati thought it would be a surfer version of Deadwood and then when they saw what it was almost no one watched it. In a way I like that it is a show I have almost entirely to myself.

 

Isn’t Deadwood a western? If I’m not super into that genre, would I be into it?

 

To me, The Americans is the only thing that comes close to being as good as The Sopranos. But even that's still pretty far off.

 

The western aspect of it shouldn’t dissuade you from it, no.

 

Deadwood takes place in the "west" (relatively), but it is not a western. It is much more of a political drama.

 

There was an old interview with Terry Gross and DC that they ran on Friday for NPR. Might go on their website, and listen.

 

Always wonder how much better shows like mad men and sons of anarchy could have been if they werent on cable channels. Feel like SoA still got away with ALOT but i still wonder haha

Not to say either show was bad either, theyre both top shows for me.

 

Dude, SoA had the ability to really be something huge. Way bigger than it already was. Phenomenal cast, great premise that actually gave the "biker life" an interesting story to invest in. I'm still quite salty about the last two seasons. It's like Sutter got bored in the midst of a story he had set all along. Like he had all the pieces in place and just couldn't capitalize on a full-circle ending, or get there in a way that felt as fluid and gripping as the early seasons did. I will still argue to this day that the season 3 ending is possibly one of the best episodes of television i've ever watched, but you'd definitely need to have seen everything up until then.

 

If you have time on your hands, you can get really wrapped up on Wikipedia and how the history/timeline of the series plus biographies of even the obscurest background characters

List of The Sopranos characters in the Soprano crime family - Wikipedia

 

S3 ending is the best way that show ended a season.

 

Maybe there are more people watching GoT, Sopranos, BB, etc - then there was for CHeers, Mash, etc...

Or more social media for them, and thats why it seems they are 'all over media' now...

 

Absolutely. The way social media brings advertising to people in a way where it is unavoidable, as well as the accessibility of shows on streaming services now makes for a huge difference in viewers. Still hard to knock any of those shows on whether or not they wouldn't be that popular though, because they are very good. Do I think a show like Game Of Thrones would be as interesting or as much of a smash hit if it were done back when the Sopranos was still going on, most definitely not.

 

put Vera in everything

 

It still feels surreal to see news about new Sopranos material in the works. I’m so excited!!!