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Summary: Forget about it.....
Review: What a wonderful television series. What more needs to be said?Each episode plays itself like a little movie, and each episode gets the same level attentions and the results shine through. Everyone has heard the acclaim on this series and just about everyone has seen it, but this collection is definetly worth adding to your DVD collection. I can't wait until the release of the second season, and I will surely by the third, fourth, and the fifth and final season when they are released. (I know the forth season isn't out and David Chase agreed to do a fifth season, but currently had no plans to go beyond that.)
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Summary: Hooked on the Sopranos for life
Review: What a collection of action and drama! This is the one in the collection that you will keep going back to. If you are a fan of the show, you will relive the brillinace of the first time you met "the crew." With the DVD, there's an interesting interview with David Chase which puts the creator of the show in the spotlight. An interesting and sometimes amusing ride through the swamplands of Jersey - a must get for the piaisan on your list.
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Summary: fantastic
Review: What a great show.Hbo did a fine job on this one.But the real action is at streetbrawls.com. I think every episode is as good as Goodfellas.The whole project from writing to acting to plot and characters is, quite simply, fascinating.The family life, restaurants, etc. depicted in this family are so real.
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Summary: amazing and interesting
Review: this show is one of the best HBO shows i've ever seen. any one who is interested in the mafia story should get this DVD.
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Summary: A Start
Review: How do you rate the most original series to grace TV in many years? The HBO format allows for a more honest presentation than any commercially available venue. The one failing of the set is that HBO waited so long to bring it out. More than a year and a half after it debuted and after season 2. The story are characters all develop well beyond the first year. This may be the best testament to the series is that in year 1 the producers were breaking new ground but still tredding softly. I think HBO perpetuates their mistake as year 2 won't be available until year 4 is about to start. The delay in availability hurts the appeal. For the uninitiated these could be a vehicle to become involved and up to date. The release schedule reduces these to collector items.
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Summary: Did you warble, my little wren?
Review: I resisted watching this show for the longest time. Do I have a spare hour every week to commit to another TV show? I don't even get HBO! After getting rooked into a few episodes, I was hooked. As I usually describe it, every episode is as good as Goodfellas. Plus, if you're from New Jersey, you'll recognize every location. Ba Da Bings? That's Satin Dolls on Route 17 South. This show is endlessly re-watchable, so it's well worth having on DVD.
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Summary: An Aria of Excellence
Review: I admit it -- I don't have HBO. That being said, I purchased The First Season and watched the entire package over the Labor Day weekend. Gandolfini is magnificent, everyman, threatening, sensitive, boorish, charming. His character is fascinating -- you'd like to meet him on a plane, learn about his life, and hopefully never see him again. The rest of the family, including Livia (played by the late Nancy Marchand) and his "other family" are equally complex. My only fault is that the last episode left me wanting to purchase the next set of videos so that I could keep up with the story line. ARRRRRGH -- November is when the next season comes out?
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Summary: The Best Money I've Spent This Year
Review: Like many of the reviewers here, I had heard good word of mouth reactions to The Sporanos and saw some of an episode during an HBO promotion week. Still, I was skeptical about the show, as most things that popular fail to deliver a quality product consistently. I was disabused of this notion when I started to watch this DVD consolidation. The shows are so much better than I'd hoped for that I had to force myself to ration them out at the rate of 2 or 3 a week. The whole project from writing to acting to plot and characters is, quite simply, fascinating. What's more, every bit of the show is absolutely believable. While the Godfather films, excellent as they are, show a sort of mythologized history, The Sopranos has a lifelike quality that television almost never communicates. More importantly, the program develops an interest in the characters and curiosity as to what will happen next that is seldom seen in popular entertainment any more. There is also a good deal of humor, but never the cheap laughs that would seem available. Instead, there is a subtlety in irony that may well go over the heads of less sophisticated viewers. I'm already anxious for the subsequent seasons' compilations to come out and might even subscribe to HBO.
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Summary: Better than "The Godfather!"
Review: When I first saw "The Godfather," it got me interested in the mafia. It was scary, smart, and entertaining. But after seeing the first episode in this fantastic boxed set, I was hooked. The family on both sides of Tony Soprano (the mafia, and his blood family) continue to push him to the breaking point, which is sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and always captivating. He also keeps an interesting relationship with his therapist, that he must keep secret from the mafia, as it is a sign of weekness.
At first glance, his blood family seems disfunctional, but that is mearly the writer of the show doing something we are not familiar with in this industry: being honest. Some shows, like "the Simpsons" look at family like too comicly (but i still love it anyway), and others look at it very unrealistically like "7th Heaven," which makes family life look too happy and clean.
This is the only television show that I would pay [price] for at this time. I highly recomend this show to anyone interested in the mafia. I recomend that you go rent the first disk and if you like that, well, it only get's better.
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Summary: The start of greatness
Review: the greatest show on t.v. comes to dvd. the sopranos are the ideall american family they also give new meaning to the word family.my favorite episode is collasge thats were tony is lying to medow about seeing an old foe.
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