The Sopranos (1999-2007) TV Series
New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano deals with personal and professional issues in his home and business life that affect his mental state, leading him to seek professional psychiatric counseling.
Cast and Information
Seasons: 6, Episodes: 47 - Episode List
Created By: David Chase
Directed By: John Patterson, Timothy Van Patten, Alan Taylor, Allen Coulter, David Chase
Written By: David Chase, Terence Winter, Mitchell Burgess, Robin Green
Starring: David Strathairn, Michael Imperioli, James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Lorraine Bracco, Aida Turturro, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Drea de Matteo, Tony Sirico, Dominic Chianese, Steve Schirripa, Robert Iler
Franchise: The Sopranos
Country: USA
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loc42 | 100 99th |
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It's like a documentary about a culture or species that is about to go extinct. Tony embodies a shift from the traditional Italian life-style to an American capitalist-liberal one: he always avoids fracases out of honor and focuses on the "cash-value" of issues. He even tolerates Vito's homosexuality cause he gains a lot. Tony goes through an existential journey as he grapples with the "new" world where there is no place for "old" values. It's like reading a dense 19th c. realist novel. Awesome.
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| 4 | sellis | 100 99th |
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Not only the greatest show of all time, but the two halves of Season 6 is up there for greatest achievements in narrative storytelling of any form, period. Performances, visuals, tone. The image of Paulie tanning with the cat haunting him nearby will profoundly affect me forever. And dat end scene.
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Pickpocket | 10 98th |
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Still the greatest TV show of all time. Even the women are well written which is usually not the case in these type of shows. So many classic scenes, James Gandolfini is perfect as Tony, so many great characters, so many hilarious scenes. Paulie still remains one of my all time favorite characters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ8Ts1s4pUI
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mattorama12 | 78 85th |
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A bit of a tough one to rate. On the one hand, it has an incredibly deep bench of strong, well-acted characters. It finds truth in the sociological drivers of organized crime--emphasizing the mundane over the glorified. And it's undoubtedly the founding father of TV's Golden Age. But it also really struggles in its attempts to be philosophically deep, which are frequent. A show I'll always appreciate, but I'm not convinced it belongs on TV's Rushmore.
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Alex Watkins | 5 91st |
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Even though it's probably 20 hours (2 seasons) worth of episodes too long, at its best, there's nothing like it: a surprisingly organic mixture of domestic drama, crime saga, sitcom, and Lynchian, surrealist horror.
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Excelsior | 40 40th |
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Is it just me, or is the so-called Golden Age of Television not all it's cracked up to be? This is the epitome of that fawning respectability which is characteristic of modern acclaimed US prestige dramas, where The Police's "Every Breath You Take" is played alongside the police wiretapping gangsters and where the meaning of surreal dream sequences is outright explained by the characters. If this is the best that the US has to offer, then I'll gladly go back to watching trashy anime.
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hellboy76 | 90 97th |
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The Godfather of high quality U.S. programming, it set the pace for every Breaking Bad and Mad Men that followed it. The role Gandolfini was born for, it has a wonderful supporting cast and manages to make you want to like these monsters. That ending though...
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saudade | 60 87th |
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(Completed) Is it just me, or does every HBO drama seem to constantly insinuate that shit is about to hit the fan, but really the boy doth cry wolf, and tedium is the name of the game? I am right. When something finally happens, I'm like, "huh? Oh, I don't care now. I'm reading the back of this DuckTales VHS" (Edie Falco and Michael Imperioli are so good it's banyaners) (I agree with IMDb. My favorite episode is 'Pine Barrens') (Every female extra plays a stripper!!)
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backwardsuit | 93 99th |
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The best TV drama I ever saw. Mostly brilliant writing & a very rewarding slow burning pace. Even the weaker plotlines are carried by the absolutely fabulous cast & wonderfully classy direction. Really manages to find its own thing and stick to it despite its flaws. Some bits are maybe too slow or less interesting than others but as a whole it's almost perfectly structured for the small screen. The ending really feels like a proper conclusion to a story in a way few TV shows can even aspire to.
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rosenritter | 9 95th |
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What started out as a slightly satirical mobster dramedy in its first season, has by its sixth transformed into an introspective existential drama, a reminder of the viewer's own mortality and a call to action, a thorny morality tale, a thousand other things and on top of that, still a really heartfelt family drama. A ridiculously multi-layered masterpiece of a show that has influenced nearly every other American drama series to follow, and been superseded by none.
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TheDiceman | 95 99th |
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Excellent, TV at its finest. Complete series.
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amerigo | 99 99th |
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Hard to find a show that consistently delivers poignancy and entertainment over the course of 8 years. Harder still to find a show that wraps up the series as perfectly as The Sopranos did.
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| 1 | tef | 90 88th |
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A great show which correctly makes it clear that you should not be rooting for Tony. Unlike say, Breaking Bad, which glorifies in its protagonist's vapid stupid immorality.
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Ocelot | 100 99th |
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The Sopranos fluctuates in quality over the course of its run, but that's how TV works. Episode by episode, imperfections accumulate, but that only leads to an imperfect show if you accept that there's a ceiling of perfection in the first place. For every scene of Vito in a gay bar, there are two more that redefine TV forever; the entire finale may leave a bigger footprint on history than any movie that year, or decade, alone. I saw this for the first time two years ago. It will last forever.
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overrated | 99 99th |
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S6B > S5 > S4 > S1 > S2 > S3 > S6A. There's major clumsiness with the Vito storyline in the last season (S6A) and Buscemi felt like a "special guest appearance", otherwise it's perfect television. Gandolfini and Falco are both phenomenal (arguably the two single best performances in any medium), and the series is not only a masterclass in black comedy, an exploration of social & individual entropy, but also an exemplar of proper pronunciation: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_87pRe1MUwE
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JSchlansky | 77 70th |
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Finally working my way through this. Season 1: tons of good stuff but I cannot stand about half the cast. I hate Tony's mother so much that when an episode opened at an old woman's funeral I cheered "Oh finally!" before realizing it wasn't her. The kids suck ass, and Uncle Junior is a good character but I don't like the performance. The writing is mostly strong except when the dialogue devolves characters reciting essays on Italian heritage to each other
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BownTV | 100 98th |
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The best, most thoughtful, most emotionally intelligent, most well-written and acted, and honestly on top of that possibly the funniest, TV show ever made. Galdolfini's Tony is the best fictional character in history.
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| 1 | ATiM2 | 90 81st |
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If The Sopranos wasn't great enough just by virtue of the fact that it kick-started the Golden Age of Television, it managed to produce television that still holds up today as some of the finest work the medium has ever produced.
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| Average Percentile 83.82% from 1384 Ratings |  |