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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Does anyone else like the sopranos..i am addicted..watching the series for the 3rd time now..gutted james gandolfini died..

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By *ersey GirlCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

It was my favourite tv series. Nothing has came close to that. I did watch it again years ago but wasn't the same

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Huge fan ! Rewatch regularly.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pine Barrens still the best episode, imho.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes! Epic!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Favourite characters probably

Adrianna and Paulie. Liked Bobby in the final series.

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By *tephTV67TV/TS
over a year ago

Cheshire

They’re make a prequel, so something to look forward to, also James Gandolfini son is playing the younger Tony Soprano

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By *arsharkMan
over a year ago

Burnley

"Pine Barrens still the best episode, imho."
deffo

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

"Does anyone else like the sopranos..i am addicted..watching the series for the 3rd time now..gutted james gandolfini died.."

I saw it, I felt cheated by the ending. Won't watch again

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Have you been to NYC and done The Sopranos tour?

My ex loved it - especially the visit to the real Ba-da-Bing and getting to meet 'Vito Spatafore' for a photo op

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Have you been to NYC and done The Sopranos tour?

My ex loved it - especially the visit to the real Ba-da-Bing and getting to meet 'Vito Spatafore' for a photo op "

That sounds fantastic, one for the bucket list.

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By *ondon MikeMan
over a year ago

St Albans

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By *ondon MikeMan
over a year ago

St Albans

Absolutely love it. Rewatching it pretty much got me through the first lockdown

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By *rder66Man
over a year ago

Tatooine

Loved each series from new and rewatched so many times, love it and can't wait to see the prequal movie. His real life son play the young Tony.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Does anyone else like the sopranos..i am addicted..watching the series for the 3rd time now..gutted james gandolfini died..

I saw it, I felt cheated by the ending. Won't watch again

Ah but that’s only one episode!

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By *rder66Man
over a year ago

Tatooine

"They’re make a prequel, so something to look forward to, also James Gandolfini son is playing the younger Tony Soprano

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Absolutely love it, watched it when it first came out. Got the box sets that I've watched over and over, also watching the reruns on sky Atlantic now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Pine Barrens still the best episode, imho."

Definitely the funniest

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By *inister_SpinsterWoman
over a year ago

North West

Absolutely love it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Pine Barrens still the best episode, imho.

Definitely the funniest "

Paulie always cracked me up, some brilliant lines in that one.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Loved each series from new and rewatched so many times, love it and can't wait to see the prequal movie. His real life son play the young Tony."

The Many Saints of Newark, out in Autumn hopefully.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Does anyone else like the sopranos..i am addicted..watching the series for the 3rd time now..gutted james gandolfini died..

I saw it, I felt cheated by the ending. Won't watch again

The ending was amazing! Took me a while to figure it out, though.

It truly was one of the best, if not the best TV shows ever made. The character development was absolutely first class.

There is only one TV series that does a very good job at giving The Sopranos a run for its money, and depending on the day, I have a hard time deciding which was the best: Gomorrah.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’ve watched the whole thing twice now. One of the best TV Series ever made in my opinion

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Pine Barrens still the best episode, imho."
absolute classic this one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Superb, is brilliantly scripted.

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By *ingadinga2319Couple
over a year ago

Stoke

The best TV show ever ... nothing has come close before or since.

Watched it over and over again - and it gets better and better

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By *opilotMan
over a year ago

Heathrow

I'm currently re watching it, just started season 4

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've probably seen each episode over half a dozen times and still after 20-odd years I'm never tired of it.

I've also been listening to the Talking Sopranos podcast with Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa - aka Christopha and Bobby! It's very entertaining and insightful and a must for anyone who loves the show.

For my money Pine Barrens is a very funny episode but in terms of the show's full repoitaire it's not the best. College, Amour Fou, Long Term Parking and Whitecaps are all emotionally richer and artistically more complete episodes.

I'm so stoked for Many Saints which has been delayed for too long now...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

One of the best series for me, to come out of HBO. The late Mr Gandolfini was mesmerising in it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I've probably seen each episode over half a dozen times and still after 20-odd years I'm never tired of it.

I'm so stoked for Many Saints which has been delayed for too long now..."

Top post. I love that podcast too.

All great episodes you mentioned although Long Tern Parking is a tough watch. I don’t think the show was quite as good once Adrianna left, she was a crucial character to me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Was awesome do rewatches ever now and then meadow was awesome for number off reasons

Wow listen to mr mob boss

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fantastic series. All the characters were incredible. I’m rewatching again at the moment.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

One of the best tv series out there.....along with the worst ending out there!

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By *asilForty77Man
over a year ago

a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road

Great series watched it countless times anyone remember tour of duty?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

So many people hate the ending. I thought it was brilliant! There was so much going on in the final season that the ending could be interpreted in many different ways. Maybe it was just our (the viewer’s) time to separate from the story and move on to something else. But I like to think the following;

In that final scene, Tony is out in public. This is really risky after the power struggle going on with Paulie Walnuts, Silvio in a coma, the FBI on Tony, and Phil Leotardo’s death. A war is breaking out, and the big guys are getting hit first. So there is Tony, sat in a public restaurant with some shady guy sat at the bar. The shady guy gets up and goes to the bathroom, the door rings as Meadow comes into the restaurant, and then the scene cuts to black for 11 seconds before the credits roll. I think that the shady guy was a hit on Tony and he went to the bathroom to get a gun.

In the season six episode "Soprano Home Movies," Bobby Baccalieri and Tony are chatting about the nature of death, when Bobby theorizes that death is simple, quick, and that "you probably don't even hear it when it happens."

The shady guy came out of the bathroom, and Tony caught one in the back of the head. The cut to black is Bobby’s theory of death come true.

For me, that is an amazing ending. There’s no resolution for the viewer, and it is incredibly frustrating, but that’s the whole point. The story was always centred around Tony. He manipulated everybody he spoke to and even Dr Melfi stopped seeing him because she realised that his Sociopathy had manipulated her too. And you, as a viewer, had also been manipulated by Tony. He was an awful guy, he killed people, he exploited people, but the viewer was still enamoured by him, and we loved him! But the truth is that Tony didn’t care about anyone else but himself. The cut to black in the final scene was a reminder of this. The TV show doesn’t care about the viewer. It isn’t there to offer a satisfying resolution at the end. The TV show is about Tony. When he dies, you don’t get any more.

Absolutely brilliant.

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By *moothdickMan
over a year ago

stoke

Watching when I can on Atlantic, didn’t watch it first time rounds so trying get it in order now is difficult but really enjoying it.... got a total crush on Tony’s wife .... and her arse in th episode where she sleeps with the tutor .... mmmmm peach in heaven .... great series

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By *ensual 2Couple
over a year ago

Blackpool

For us the Sopranos is the tops ...story lines...realistic ..brutal...funny..Tony is so believable ..watched it many times ...and rate everything else by it...thats the bench mark...such a shame it couldnt run on in another way ..

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By *oubletroubleCouple
over a year ago

South West

So good, watched this again and again. The characters are just so well written and the acting is unreal. The ending is the best or the worst depending on how you look at things.

Tony probably the greatest character ever screened

RIP James Gandolfini.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"So many people hate the ending. I thought it was brilliant! .... The TV show is about Tony. When he dies, you don’t get any more."

I felt so disappointed when I watched the ending for the first time. After building so much tension in the final scene to just cut to black seemed like a such a cop-out.

But you're right it's the perfect time way to end it. Whatever happens next the show is over. I personally agree with you that the shady guy shot Tony dead, but even if he didn't it's all over for him anyway. His crime family is decimated and the law is about to finally catch up with him. Earlier in the series Tony predicted the outcomes for a guy like him: either dead, in jail, or still the boss but giving orders only through a number 2. The third option went tits up when he suffocated his nephew, so that only leaves the slab or the can for Mr Soprano!

Whatever happened there nobody can say he didn't get what he deserved.

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By *an4funMan
over a year ago

london

"It was my favourite tv series. Nothing has came close to that. I did watch it again years ago but wasn't the same

I think you will find it was exactly the same

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By *tephTV67TV/TS
over a year ago

Cheshire

"So many people hate the ending. I thought it was brilliant! There was so much going on in the final season that the ending could be interpreted in many different ways. Maybe it was just our (the viewer’s) time to separate from the story and move on to something else. But I like to think the following;

The shady guy came out of the bathroom, and Tony caught one in the back of the head. The cut to black is Bobby’s theory of death come true.

Absolutely brilliant."

Agree totally, seem quite a few YouTube videos about the ending and I think you’ve captured it perfectly.

Also remember it also mimics The Godfather when Michael goes into the Bathroom of a restaurant to get a gun to kill the Police Chief.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

On the famous ending, I respectfully disagree with other posters !

A hit on Tony would be walk in and out as quickly as possible, not hang around looking suspicious ! And a hitman would have no need to hide a gun anywhere; this only happened in The Godfather because Michael was searched before sitting down.

I think the whole point of the ending was to allow everyone to imagine it for themselves.

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By *an4funMan
over a year ago

london

"On the famous ending, I respectfully disagree with other posters !

I think the whole point of the ending was to allow everyone to imagine it for themselves."

Or to leave it open for another season

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Great series watched it countless times anyone remember tour of duty?"
yes..brilliant..the rolling stones track..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"On the famous ending, I respectfully disagree with other posters !

I think the whole point of the ending was to allow everyone to imagine it for themselves."

If the hit was ordered by New York then its likely they would have wanted it to be in front of his family as retribution for how Phil Leotardo was killed. This would explain the shady guy's hesitance as he would have known Meadow was due to join them.

I don't think a gun was concealed in the bathroom because as you say it was not necessary. However it is an obvious reference to one of the most famous mob hits in cinema so the allusion is intentional. Regardless of there being no concealed gun however, the bathroom did provide a perfect opportunity to approach Tony unnoticed and to "blindside" him for the hit. Not to mention the approach angle was 3 o'clock, which is a recurring portent throughout the series....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes to all of the above.

The fact that the series finished in 2007, and we are here still discussing it and trying to work out the answers together in 2021 is a testament to the brilliance of the show.

Remember when Game Of Thrones was the new steaming shit on the block? Who is still talking about that in 2021? Not many.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Yes to all of the above.

The fact that the series finished in 2007, and we are here still discussing it and trying to work out the answers together in 2021 is a testament to the brilliance of the show.

Remember when Game Of Thrones was the new steaming shit on the block? Who is still talking about that in 2021? Not many."

Also I think it shows the end was a good idea - we all still put our own theories on it but no one is right or wrong. Anything is possible.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We think it was rather good too!

The ending was superb, 20 years later and we are still talking about it, that’s very clever of David Chase.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We think it was rather good too!

The ending was superb, 20 years later and we are still talking about it, that’s very clever of David Chase."

Haha, hello Tony and Carmela

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hi there

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Which Sopranos character or couple would you most like to swing with?

I'll kick off with Furio and Carmela... Just hope Tony doesn't show up!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Which Sopranos character or couple would you most like to swing with?

I'll kick off with Furio and Carmela... Just hope Tony doesn't show up! "

Lol, good question ! Definitely Adriana but not sure about Chrissie !

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Which Sopranos character or couple would you most like to swing with?

I'll kick off with Furio and Carmela... Just hope Tony doesn't show up!

Lol, good question ! Definitely Adriana but not sure about Chrissie ! "
..adriana..fuck me she has a cracking body..

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

"Does anyone else like the sopranos..i am addicted..watching the series for the 3rd time now..gutted james gandolfini died..

I saw it, I felt cheated by the ending. Won't watch again

Ah but that’s only one episode! "

Still, a story needs a good ending as that is the last impression one has. For me at least

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