sopranos

badgerk

Heard a,lot of great things about the sopranos and was wondering is it as good as all the hype

Dr Turk Turkelton

The problem with the Sopranos is that it is so good you will find it hard to watch another series after it.
Two years on after buying the boxset i still haven't found anything to replace it with. :-(

lva2013

It is absolutely amazing,the acting is superb,the characters are perfect,there's so much going on you'll be hooked!!I actually started watching it again from the start a few months ago could not recommend any series more,pure class!!

badgerk

Really should start watching it. Everyone has told me it's awesome

DyldeBrill

I full on wanted to join the mafia after watching the sopranos

Best show of all time!

AnonoBoy

Yeah. It's great.

Watch it.

Riddle101

It's one of the best tv shows ever. However my favorite tv show would have to be Oz.

briany

I'm sad now 'cause I've seen all of Breaking Bad, The Wire, Twin Peaks and now, The Sopranos too. Lot of good television but for me I don't think episodic storytelling gets better than those 4 in the television medium. Hope I'm wrong*.



*Not interested in Game of Thrones.

FloatingVoter

briany wrote: »

I'm sad now 'cause I've seen all of Breaking Bad, The Wire, Twin Peaks and now, The Sopranos too. Lot of good television but I don't think episodic storytelling gets better than those 4 in the television medium. Hope I'm wrong.

Still half a season of Breaking Bad to come this summer.

barneysplash

In my opinion, The Sopranos is very over-rated. I found the series
very formulaic and predictable. Here is a post I made a few days ago
in another thread, discussing good and bad shows to watch.

I'm probably going to get some stick for this but I wouldn't
bother if I was you. It just goes stale after a few episodes and turns into a
"dysfunctional family" drama with the occasional murder and organized crime
sub-plot thrown in.
Each season works like this:
Look out Tony, you've got a new rival / oh you've killed him /
Your marriage is in trouble / your kids are becoming adults /
Your henchmen are unreliable / You are worried you are going soft
Someone from your past threatens your position / Yawn.

That's my opinion.

briany

FloatingVoter wrote: »

Still half a season of Breaking Bad to come this summer.

Yeah. I said I'm sad now but more Breaking Bad to come will be happy making. Should be good.

briany

barneysplash wrote: »

In my opinion, The Sopranos is very over-rated. I found the series
very formulaic and predictable. Here is a post I made a few days ago
in another thread, discussing good and bad shows to watch.

I'm probably going to get some stick for this but I wouldn't
bother if I was you. It just goes stale after a few episodes and turns into a
"dysfunctional family" drama with the occasional murder and organized crime
sub-plot thrown in.
Each season works like this:
Look out Tony, you've got a new rival / oh you've killed him /
Your marriage is in trouble / your kids are becoming adults /
Your henchmen are unreliable / You are worried you are going soft
Someone from your past threatens your position / Yawn.

That's my opinion.

And you're entitled to it. To be fair, you can boil any of the other series mentioned down to bulletpoints and make it all sound like no great shakes. I believe that a show really lives and dies on the performances of the actors and the nuances of the writing. After all, the great plot points are rehashed time and time again throughout the history of storytelling but it's how that story is told that is important. I think the Sopranos did that well. Kids tend age and grow, people can be unreliable, people want to usurp positions of power especially in a business like the Italian Mafia. That those plot points recur from series to series doesn't surprise me.

dulpit

Have watched Sopranos all the way through twice over past few years. It's amazing, right up there with The West Wing (which I have only recently watched), Oz & Game of Thrones as best TV series (have yet to watch the Wire or Breaking Bad).

Watch it. Now.

Rastadoyle

loved this

ben.schlomo

The Sopranos is simply one of the greatest tv shows ever made. Never mind anyone saying otherwise, the acting, the humour, the violence, the twists are all superbly done.

Atlantic Dawn

Great show, Tony's visits to the shrink allow you to see what's going through his mind. If there's one show you watch before you die this is it, have yet to meet a person who didn't like it. Buy yourself the box set, looking around €50 for it, best money you will ever spend

Sugarlumps

Some nice broads too.