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Summary: You'll Get Addicted
Review: My husband and I watched the first series of this show on recommendation of a friend. As soon as we finished, we had to go to blockbuster and rent the next season, and the season after that. As an Italian-American, this series pressed all of my cultural buttons. You can't watch it without getting hungry, for one. And I feel like I'm personally related to almost every character in the show (even though my family hasn't any gangsters in it). The writing is superb. Dialog superb. Very interesting show that makes you identify with bad guys and root for them, without ever taking the cheap way out and playing down their villainy. The show asks interesting questions about society and government, and thought provoking questions about psychology.
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Summary: Don't miss these!!
Review: My wife bought the first season for me for Christmas because she had "heard" that the show was "pretty good"... Understatement of the decade! We finished the first season in one weekend and bought the second two seasons immediately. I'll admit that the first episode started a bit slow, but the addiction quickly catches on and the show keeps getting better and better. Highly recommend!
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Summary: One of the Best
Review: Great acting, writing, directing...you name it the Sopranos has it. The show manages to depict some pretty nasty happenings with a blend of humor and compassion. At a time when the creative potential of television is being debased by " reality television ", it is refreshing and encouraging to watch a program that represents the wonderful end product of the collaborative efforts of many talented people. This is one of the few times that the actual lives up to the hype.
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Summary: Breath of Fresh Air On TV...
Review: Truly a great TV series. It makes even the best shows on network TV pale in comparison. Great writing, complimented by convincing acting creates an intense, funny, suspenseful, action oriented story about a very complex man and his two "Families." Nothing is black and white here, and often times is not what it seems. This is a show that will be revered for years to come, just like the movies that inspired it...
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Summary: Greatest TV Show Ever
Review: The only TV show that came close was the unfortunately unavailable (due to music liscencing issues) "SCTV" which aired sporadically from 1976-1984. What both shows share is a psychological depth to the characters unlike that seen on other shows, a real focus on what makes people tick and what the patterns of life are. All of the ranting and raving that Sopranos fans do about this show is justified. This show is good in too many ways to count. It acheives a standard of excellence and relevance that no television show yet had. Anyone who hasn't watched it yet has missed out in a big way.
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Summary: 5 Stars +++++++++++++! Best Source of Entertainment Ever!
Review: This show is the greatest show ever made. I have to watch it everyday. A must own! Great Acting, Writing, Directing! This show is everything you heard it is. Anyone who doesn't like it doesn't like entertainment!
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Summary: A masterpiece
Review: If I could give Season 1 more than 5 stars, I would. I hadn't watched these episodes since they first aired, and I was absolutely blown away (again) by their brilliance. Each individual episode has a structural integrity and a theme of its own, with incredible acting and writing (often very, very funny), but they also fit together as a cohesive whole. "College" and "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano" stand out in particular. A "must-have" for any Sopranos fan.
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Summary: Sopranos AMAZING!
Review: I can only think of one word to describe the incredible HBO show known as the Sopranos: amazing. This show has everything necessary to be the best show on television. After every viewing of these awesome episodes, i leave feeling great and want to share the Sopranos with everyone i know. You have to check this show out if you haven't already. And if you have, you already know what i'm talking about.
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Summary: The first season and the best season--buy it.
Review: For most TV shows, the first season is the best. While the Sopranos' other seasons have remained at high standards, this was still the best. The main reason--because ideas and concepts were fresh and new. The idea of a New Jersey mafioso, both of whose families give him heartburn, forcing him to a shrink. We delight as they explore things for the first time--Tony adjusting to talking about what he doesn't want to talk about, his embarrassment as he is invited to the country club for the amusement of his neighbor, his relationship with his children, wife, mother, and other "family" members. As well as Gandolfini's Tony, we watch as Edie Falco's Carmela develops. It's doubtful if, in following seasons, she would grab a gun and head out to confront an apparent intruder as she does in Episode 1, or take such obvious verbal delight in Tony seeing a shrink. The character develops, and we get to watch. Nancy Marchand's hideous Livia is the highlight of the first season, the only season in which she was healthy. Watching it for the second time, we get a real sense of this damaged and damaging woman--as, after Tony gets a flesh wound to the earlobe, she greets him with "Your ear's disfigured." Livia is not prepared to go gentle into that good night, she's going kicking and screaming, and prepared to take as many people as she can with her. The production values are great, and embellished by the director's interviews. DVDs are the form that these shows will go down to posterity with. This is obviously in creator David Chase's mind, and he's giving them to us in their best form.
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Summary: Must-Have For Everyone!
Review: First of all, I must say that I am a hopeless romantic chick that loves ruffly pink shabby chic stuff, Friends, Felicity, Sex and the City, and all that [stuff], so I really didn't think The Sopranos would be my cup of tea. Oh My, was I wrong? Yes I was-I LOVE this show. It is addictive. I can't stop watching. There are so many things going on that you just can't stop watching!! James Gandolfini is not a great-looking man, but Tony Soprano is hot. Yes I said hot. Maybe it's the power and the wealth and the weapons. Yeah, it's all that stuff. The cast is unbelievable. The chemistry between characters is unrivaled. Do not continue living a life without The Sopranos. Rent It. Enjoy It. Buy It. You must have this collection. There is no need to discuss it further.
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