Although I think The Sopranos perhaps should
have ended a season or two earlier, and I disliked the finale, I was a huge fan
of the classic crime series.
Michael Starr at the New York Post offers a
piece on The Sopranos.
On Jan. 10, 1999, a
little-publicized drama series called “The Sopranos” premiered on HBO,
chronicling the domestic and professional life of a ruthless North Jersey mob
boss living in suburbia with his wife and two teenage kids — and seeing a
shrink for his anxiety.
Its large ensemble cast,
including James Gandolfini as titular mob boss Tony Soprano and Edie Falco as
his wife, Carmela, was largely unknown — as was series creator David Chase,
whose TV résumé included “The Rockford Files,” “I’ll Fly Away” and “Northern
Exposure.”
“The Sopranos” changed the
landscape of cable television and won a slew of Emmys (including three apiece
for Gandolfini and Falco) during its six-season run. It ended with an
ambiguous, WTF? cut-to-black series finale in June 2007 — panicking 12 million
viewers who thought their cable crapped out and leaving Tony Soprano’s fate
forever open to interpretation.
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