Alright you.
1. The Sopranos is brilliant in every way imaginable. You must see it more than once.
2. Characters don't have to hang around if they don't matter.
3. Meadow was awesome and she provided a great amount of content (okay, the suitcase scene is an exception, so what) and she was never afraid to tell Tony off. Got to respect that.
4. Carmela is a queen and her voice gets me off. Got it? Falco rocks! Repeat that!
5. Lois Griffin's voice also gets me off, so don't talk *beep* about Lois
6. AJ was the son of a mafia boss. We'll see how well you do in that position.
7. Tony Soprano was unpredictable because he was complex - you need to pay attention.
8. The ending makes you feel like YOU got shot instead of Tony. So it's brilliant.
9. Paulie's highlights are great. You should try them. Also, Paulie was integral to the show. He was the bread and butter of the mob mentality.
10. Season 6 was the most personal and intimate season and I don't understand why each final season and each finale must be about car chases, showdowns, gun fights and extraordinary situations that have nothing to do with the tone of the rest of the series - that's what messed up the seinfeld finale and countless others. That's why most finales suck. But this one was in tone with the rest of the series and so - it is okay. Not brilliant, I admit, but it was okay. The ending WAS brilliant, for the reason stated above.
Okay. Now go watch it again! And come back and post 10 reasons why it's brilliant. And here, i'll help you out :
1. Amazing director work, camera work and OUTSTANDING cinematography. Pure ART.
2. More symbolism per episode than most college creative writing essays
3. OUTSTANDING acting from the cast and guests, with Gandolfini crafting a legendary character and having more nuance in his acting than most film actors. Scarily believable and he was nothing like Tony in real life, which is something you should contemplate.
4. OUTSTANDING musical soundtrack that fits and expands the meaning of each episode at the end, also cult opening song
5. Gritty, realistic, mature themes and it explores and examines the state of society today, which is about as relevant as it gets.
6. Great humor, great memorable lines. Hysterical moments that could find their way into a sitcom.
7. Fantastic restraint - no excess, no lame car chases and triad mob war *beep*
8. Characters that go through some of the most dramatic possible moments in life, including death, funerals, marriage, murders, reconciliation, redemption, failed redemption (the main theme it could be argued) and incredible, shakespearian levels of psychology.
9. HBO became a titan and The Sopranos began a new era of storytelling on television, previously reserved only for film.
10. The overwlemingly sad fact is that no show will ever touch this one, not boardwalk, not breaking bad, not game of thrones. This show was absolutely unique.
And an 11th reason : that moment, Kevin Finnerty's final moment when he's glimpsing through what only can be described as 'heaven's gates', is not only one of the most artistic, creative and heart wrenching moments of television OR film history, but Gandolfini's acting and the look on his face put him up there with the likes of Brando and Daniel Day Lewis. With one look, he describes a man who wants to get in, is YEARNING to get in, but knows that he doesn't belong, that he probably WON'T get in. At the same time he's shocked that he's seeing them , that they're real, that they DO exist. Brilliant does not even describe his acting. Now you name me another show that even bothers to explore things like that.
So yeah, i dont' know WHAT you're talking about.
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petepi3
8 years ago
Explain why Tony would even risk his entire *beep* family like he did in the finale. Suddenly no bodyguards or hitmen protecting? It was *beep*Paulie was a back stabbing, selfish *beep* He'd have sold Tony out at any time if the money made it worth it. Of course he was portrayed perfectly and very entertainingly.Meadow was in constant mourning. She was a whiny ungrateful brat, as was Aj, but of course they weren't normal children.And if you get off on the voices of Lois and Carmela then fair enough, but for me their nasal, shrieking, monotone speech left me glad I dont have to hear voices like that ever in real life.Of course the Sopranos is one of the greatest shows of all time. I just think they could have done the ending a lot better.
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evets_lives
8 years ago
There was zero reason for Tony to be worried about being in public anymore.
"Holsten's is the consensus" is what Carm says, which actually meant "Holsten's is where I want to eat." Maybe you're confused because we often see Tony - and ONLY Tony - dining out at lavish restaurants. We don't ever see the whole family doing this. And it's not like it was a Denny's, it was a nice family place that had been around a long time, possibly someplace Carm and Tony went to when they were kids.
It's easy to get sucked in and binge watch the Sopranos, but it was never meant to be viewed that way. Watch any show in that fashion and you might start to get annoyed with certain things.
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twelveboar
8 years ago
I think it's true with the binge-watch thing. As entire series are immediately available nowadays, the viewing public (and show writers) are increasing;y gravitating to watching/making shows that are essentially elongated movies.
I've been binging the Sopranos- rewatching for the first time since it aired- and yeah, cracks begin to appear. It doesn't flow as well as, say, Breaking Bad or The Wire. It stops and starts and characters and events come and go.
So I think the Sopranos is best watched with gaps between the episodes. THough obviously there are season and series story arcs ('I'll tell you who had an ark- Noah!'), there is a lot of emphasis on every episode being self-contained, if not with a story, than at least with a mood and theme.
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CrbCrtx
8 years ago
Well, that depends on whether or not you're looking for flaws, or looking for the good things. The show contains trillions of little details on several different levels (visual, narrative and acting) that the more you watch, the more layers and facets become apparent, the more meaning it all begins to have, beyond the mob thing and the family thing - it just begins to be life itself, pure and unabated. that's why i love the kevin finnerty stuff and was so glad to see gandolfini actually play a non criminal , who gets to explore aspects of life. Breaking bad began to be that way later on, it began to be about life itself, not about what happens in a certain story line. The story lines in the sopranos were pretty good, but the underllying meaning of it all is what the show's true contribution is, in my view. Andwhy it's the greatest tv series of all time - in fact, only seinfeld rivals it by the amount of life exploration both shows are shows about everything, not just about the main theme of their narrative. And so on.
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