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The Sopranos is the greatest TV show ever

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  • #32
    EverythingGood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,003 ✭✭✭EverythingGood


    Surprised that no one has mentioned The West Wing yet - great writing from Aaron Sorkin, seasons 2 and 3 are some of the best TV ever made.

    The Wire season 2 is top drawer stuff too. McNulty is one of all time favourite characters.


  • #33
    Unearthly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,715 ✭✭✭Unearthly


    Skylinehead wrote: »
    I love that show. If you haven't watched Justified yet, do. Walton Goggins is even better in that than in The Shield.

    Started that on Friday. Im halfway through season 2. Very good show. Heard it gets better to


  • #34
    James Bond Junior
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    Sopranos follows by the wire. Breaking bad, I just don't understand the hype behind it. I don't think it features in the same breath of great tv shows


  • #35
    MightyMandarin
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    This thread



  • #36
    Skylinehead
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    Unearthly wrote: »
    Started that on Friday. Im halfway through season 2. Very good show. Heard it gets better to

    From memory 4 and 6 are the best. 2 is great though.


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  • #37
    EverythingGood
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    Justified is excellent, another really good show is Banshee - it can be very violent, but is also top drawer.


  • #38
    [Deleted User]
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    The Soprano's The Wire, brilliant shows, but for me, HBO's OZ is a masterpiece

    If you havent seen it, I would highly reccomend it.


  • #39
    osarusan
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    Santa Barbara!

    Cracking afternoon fare on RTE in the 80's.


  • #40
    Logo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 723 ✭✭✭Logo


    The Sopranos, Frasier. Seinfeld, Curby, Withnail and I, then maybe Breaking Bad. There are nine settings on my oven. I use one. Why use an apostrophe when quoting dates e.g. 1980's? (it should be the 1980s. and yes I'm bored).


  • #41
    The_Valeyard
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    Logo wrote: »
    The Sopranos, Frasier. Seinfeld, Curby, Withnail and I, then maybe Breaking Bad. There are nine settings on my oven. I use one. Why use an apostrophe when quoting dates e.g. 1980's? (it should be the 1980s. and yes I'm bored).

    Fraser was class.


    Anyhow GOT is better than sopranos and The Wire.


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  • #42
    Pidae.m
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    Thought meadow was a bigger pain.
    Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »
    Carmela Soprano really is one of the most unlikeable despicable characters in television history.


  • #43
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    It's either the Sopranos or Fade Street

    https://vimeo.com/36475138


  • #44
    Cina
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    Top five:

    The Wire
    The Sopranos
    Mad Men
    Rectify
    Band of Brothers

    I think those five are the pinnacle, with The Wire being the absolute pinnacle.

    Honorable mentions:

    Deadwood, Breaking Bad, Arrested Development, Game of Thrones, The Office (UK)

    We are really lucky in that we are truly living in the Golden Age of TV, it's incredible the amount of brilliant content that's been churned out this century.


  • #45
    Logo
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    Got Better Call Saul as a Christmas present. Is it worth watching?


  • #46
    learn_more
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭learn_more


    I have never watched the Sopranos because the lovable ole mobster type never appealed to me and never will.


  • #47
    Pidae.m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 851 ✭✭✭Pidae.m


    You need to watch it so. There's so much of the series where I hated tony
    learn_more wrote: »
    I have never watched the Sopranos because the lovable ole mobster type never appealed to me and never will.


  • #48
    noodler
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    Just came in to say Battlestar Galactica.


  • #49
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    Loved the Sops. Christopher was my favourite character. Loved Ralphie and Steve Buscemi's character too. Hated Janice, also hated AJ but he was good in the last series or two. I'm still upset that JG is gone, I don't really care when celebs die but that was and still is really sad. I watched the Sops as it was on TV over the years, before I knew how to watch online etc, and for an hour a week it was total escapism for me to a world of gangsters and strippers and cannoli. RIP James G.


  • #50
    Unearthly
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    Logo wrote: »
    Got Better Call Saul as a Christmas present. Is it worth watching?

    I presume you have seen Breaking Bad? It's a slow burner. I think it will be one of those shows that gets better as it goes on


  • #51
    trashcan
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    Logo wrote: »
    Got Better Call Saul as a Christmas present. Is it worth watching?

    Oh yes, very much so.

    On the original question/ opinion - I'm a Wire fan, all the way. So far ahead of the rest it just isn't true. I enjoyed the Sopranos, but it's not as good as the Wire.


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  • #52
    Dr Crayfish
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    I actually enjoy BCS more than Breaking Bad, it's a lovely show.


  • #53
    Logo
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    Unearthly wrote: »
    I presume you have seen Breaking Bad? It's a slow burner. I think it will be one of those shows that gets better as it goes on
    Really enjoyed Breaking Bad (although didn't watch last disc). From what's posted on here I expect that Better Call Saul Season I isn't great - even though I liked the shifty, slimy, creepy Saul character in BB


  • #54
    The_Valeyard
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    noodler wrote: »
    Just came in to say Battlestar Galactica.

    So say we all


  • #55
    red ears
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    Pidae.m wrote: »
    You need to watch it so. There's so much of the series where I hated tony

    He was a great character as there are times I liked him, times I really disliked him.


  • #56
    paralysed
    Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    Nip/Tuck


  • #57
    Unearthly
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    Logo wrote: »
    Really enjoyed Breaking Bad (although didn't watch last disc). From what's posted on here I expect that Better Call Saul Season I isn't great - even though I liked the shifty, slimy, creepy Saul character in BB

    In the tv forum the majority like it a lot. Great ratings on imdb and rotten tomatoes to. Would definitely say give it a shot


  • #58
    VonLuck
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    Band of Brothers is in my opinion the best TV show I have seen. Made all the better because it was entirely a true story.


  • #59
    holy guacamole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭holy guacamole


    Love The Sopranos and consider it among the greatest TV shows of all time.

    However it really tailed away toward the end and definitely went on for a season or two longer than it should.

    The last half-dozen episodes in particular were a real disappointment and somewhat sullied the entire experience for me.

    But for four of five seasons it was without peer; it changed television and revolutionised the way TV series are produced.


  • #60
    Logo
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    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    it's a lovely show.
    That doesn't exactly inspire confidence:(


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  • #61
    Atoms for Peace
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    :)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsxthFO-HWs


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