Just finished the Sopranos. It was a really good show. Great acting, great cinematography, and great dialogue. As far as TV shows go I can see why it's so highly regarded. However, as a mafia narrative, or a mob epic if you will, it falls pretty damn flat. I do not think it belongs in the same category as the Godfather, Goodfellas, Once Upon a Time in America or even the Irishman.
My main issue with the Sopranos is that it's basically a soap opera for men. The main focus on any given episode is usually how the characters feel, what they are bitching and moaning about, and who they are sleeping with. At the beginning of the show Tony says something like "I get the impression that the best is behind us", which led me to believe that the show was an examination on the decline of la Cosa Nostra. While the show does this, it can almost be seen as background noise to the other issues the show focuses on. It's not really until the last 4 or 5 episodes that this really comes into focus, and in the last episode it practically beats you over the head with the shadowy lighting and the 'totally not assassination scene'
The main problem is the criminal element is not well written nor particularly convincing. Murders are committed in broad daylight, by people showing their face, in public places in white suburban neighborhoods, and yet the perpetrators almost face no repercussions. Murder victims are barely mentioned after the episode they were murdered in. Neither the feds nor the cops seem to even give a shit that bodies are dropping in broad daylight on busy streets, and don't even give me that "Tony has cops on his payroll" shit. Having a cop on your payroll means you get intel and can get some people to look the other way on some things. That does not include spraying bullets in crowded streets in broad daylight. The effect this has is that it's hard to take Chase's portrayal of Crime in American society particularly seriously
>Ton’ goes to the hospital in an early season and gets the “go about in pity for myself” note on his hospital room board >tells everyone “AYYYYYY YAKNOWWHAT YA GO ABOUTIN PITY FUH YASELF” for the next 4 seasons
Juan Bailey
Breaking Bad is much better but I'll let you pseuds pretend it's not
Jackson White
That was season 6 numbskull
Nolan Powell
No it's not.
Cont.
The irony is that the feds focus on the one murder he actually pulls off competently. The Matt balaquaia or whatever the fuck his name is guy. That actually felt like a mob hit. Then they dig up a dead bookie from 1982 for some dumb reason. Never do they focus on the trail of missing people and bullet riddled civilians left in public places.
While Meadow and Carm being in denial of their friends and family going missing does make sense because they are basically undercover mob hoes, the same doesn't go for the friends and family of the deceased. You think Ade, who was generally a well liked person in both the civillian and crime world, would have caused a little more of an uproar after she went missing seeing as she had a well known woman beater and murderer for a boyfriend.
Then there's the kids. I know, I get it. You can't raise a normal family when you are a mob boss. I've seen the Godfather. The thing is Tony gets as close as possible. Meadow will have an independent stream of income, so she wont' become a goomar, and AJ will probably OD effectively killing any chance of succession of the Soprano bloodline, which will do the entire world a favor. Tony kind of succeeds at ending a bloody legacy. And that's really fucking boring. Why was so much show time spent on these two brats when nothing interesting really happened to them? The tension that you saw in The Godfather and The Goodfellas just isn't there, so what stopped them from compressing this into a 4 hour movie? I would love it in that format, because honestly it did very little to justify it's extremely log run time.
Bentley Richardson
Breaking Bad is good, BCS has the potential to be better but, The Sopranos is the best show ever put the television.
Lucas Jones
Lotta balls
Camden Miller
Not sure if bait or certified mongoloid
Connor Brooks
>My main issue with the Sopranos is that it's basically a soap opera for men. The main focus on any given episode is usually how the characters feel Next level filtered
