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SOPRANOS IS THE BEST

October 26th 2008 22:56
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I’m watching The Sopranos, currently being screened on one of the Foxtel channels and it is just as good the third time round. *For anyone who hasn’t seen it, The Sopranos is a US television series that, over six seasons follows the activities of a New Jersey crime boss. * We meet Tony Soprano, a high ranking member of the Jersey mafia, at a defining time in his life. His daughter is about to start college, his adolescent son is in trouble at school and his wife is dealing with a crisis of conscience. In Tony’s other family the boss is dying of cancer and the threat of FBI surveillance is looming. * In many ways Tony seems like a normal middle-class, suburban, Italian-American dad but the moral ambiguities that filter through the mesh of his life intensify every ordinary day. * James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Robert Iler are absolutely convincing as the Sopranos; a family whose relationships and problems are identifiable - just given a heightened dramatic context. Almost without exception, even the smallest role delivers authenticity. * The series focuses more or less equally on Tony’s real family and on his criminal activities. Although the violence is often graphic, there is never a sense that it is gratuitous and, through his sessions with his psychiatrist, Dr Jennifer Melfi, we learn about Tony’s childhood influences and about his attitudes. * In one episode Tony talks to Dr Melfi about his nephew Christopher, who has narrowly escaped death and who claims to have been at Hell’s gates. He says: He's not the type that deserves hell. The worst people. The twisted and demented psychos who kill people for pleasure. The cannibals, the degenerate bastards that molest and torture little kids. They kill babies. The Hitlers, the Pol Pots. Those are the evil fucks that deserve to die. Not my nephew. We're soldiers. Soldiers don't go to hell. It's war. Soldiers, they kill other soldiers. We're in a situation where everybody involved knows the stakes. And if you're gonna accept those stakes... You gotta do certain things. It's business, we're soldiers. We follow codes... Orders.

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Comment by Cibbuano

October 27th 2008 21:31


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I've only seen one episode and it was kind of lightweight... maybe it's something that I'll watch later...

Comment by Mister Smith

October 28th 2008 06:35


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Like most series, you like it more as you get to know the characters - at least, I did. When I am watching the Sopranos I believe those characters are real and that is rare. But we all have different tastes, thank God, or we'd not have as much to talk about would we?

Comment by Janet Collins

January 26th 2009 02:53


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Teresa

I must have missed this post at the time because I certainly would have commented. I LOVED this series from beginning to end. I don't think you ever tired of it because there was always a huge gap between each series.

Although it was a little too violent (and that is putting it mildly) it just seemed to get better and better.

Comment by Teresa Ralton

January 26th 2009 03:35


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Hi Janet,
It is nice to have a fellow-fan comment. I have just watched the whole series through for the 3rd time and, as happens with the best film, it becomes ever more interesting. I knew the characters better this time -so many and all those Italian names(!). I am such a fan because Sopranos delivers on so many levels and explores the concept of moral standards without judging. It is very violent, and many people find that hard to take, but I don't think it is gratuitous. Just describing a very violent world.

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