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Having seen The Sopranos Season 6 episode 17 (aired May 6, 2007) for the first time in a long time (in a hotel room) since watching Season 1 on rental DVD, I remember why I never cared about the so-called television phenomenon that is The Sopranos.

It all comes down to utterly contemptible nature of the characters -- virtually comprised of principal and supporting -- that is reprehensible to tolerate, at least from my point of view as a humanitarian misanthrope. None of the characters portrayed is remotely sympathetic to me. Any attempt to depict these despicably remorseless characters through sympathy is emotional manipulation that exploit the viewers' naivete.

After that recent (albeit offensive and dispiriting in unadulterated nastiness) episode I saw, I found it pointless and empty to keep watching the series episode after episode, season after season. Why be subject to the continuous stream of gratuitous nudity, revolting violence and endless vulgarity? I know, change the channel, but I take exception to the intentional obliteration of morals (if any) in this show which warrant this comment.

I am amazed the TV critics lavish praise on this turkey as if it's the work of art, like USA Today, Entertainment Weekly and numerous publications did. The Sopranos is in fact a mind-numbingly pretentious dribble that go on and on with frequent intervals of violence and wall-to-wall swearing as prerequisite content to entertain the viewers like it's clever and ground-breaking. Please spare me this facetious absurdity.

David Chase and his team of telewriters must be pretentious Hollywood (hello, Don Simpson) egotists if they think The Sopranos is meant to depict the facts of mob life in exacting accuracy like it's a geek show. And I get tired of looking at the pretentious advertisement of The Sopranos with the cast staring at the reader in an ad space featured in big name magazines and newspapers splashed with exuberant quotes of critical acclaim. And there are the books and interviews with the creator and the cast. I find the interviews with David Chase amusing owing to his penchant for narcassitic charade as a pompous individual in dead-serious tone and demeanor.

The Sopranos represent David and his army of hack writers' sense of tvland fantasy as they pile meaningless after meaningless story arc and flat, emotionally manipulative character development punctuated with the roll of grisly violence and depravity passed off as "meaningful" entertainment that appear to justify glorification of Italian-American mob thuggery. I found Summer of Sam patently offensive for its nakedly stereotypical Italian portrayal, yet The Sopranos take the cake in unabashed Italian-American stereotype and for this I'm close to feeling animosity towards certain Italian-Americans for condoning thuggery, even after they announce -- albeit hypocritically since some complain loudly about negative stereotype -- that this particular show is their favorite. It serve nothing but Hollywood defecation on the supposedly noble & morally upholding Italian heritage. Thanks a lot Dave.

It amazes me The Sopranos found wild success and carried with the wind (courtesy of the media critics brainwashing the public that The Sopranos is "WONDERFUL...MASTERPIECE...GROUNDBREAKING!") to continue its run for years. I'm glad The Sopranos is in its final season, so it won't be missed because it sets an example as a television series that pretends to be brilliant philosophy-wise but which don't really mean *beep* but bloodythirsty entertainment for the viewers to pass time every Sunday night reminiscent of the Roman Coliseum.

I consider The Godfather one of the best movies ever made for its perfect structure and impeccable mood. Yet The Sopranos tries to out-do Martin Scorsese's mob movies by going over the top in terms of perverse content and shoots itself in the foot by referring to The Godfather like it aspires to rise above the standard through the run of several seasons dispensing philosophy of life & family while killing innocent people now and then with the methods of ripping bullets and torture for the most trivial reasons besides shock value.

The Sopranos is truly the most mean-spirited television series in existence (reality shows not included) as evidenced by its disrespect for anything remotely noble in the code of conduct reflecting the reality. The creator and producers thrive on the mean-spiritedness of the story concept to appeal to the audience that evil equals good and so it must be entertaining, irrespective of the innate depraved nature in inhumane attitude and dispiriting animosity towards all that is decent.

It's also the most overrated television series of all time. It's praised for all the wrong reasons -- virulent misanthropy probably massively appealing to the critics who secretly hate the audience for the sheeps they are as they get paid handsomely for writing flattering reviews and articles.

David Chase, the producers & the telewriters -- shame on them for the garbage that's condescending and regressive that serve no point at all but make gold for HBO in promoting the profound contempt of civilized humankind and mold the public's attitude to favor the mean and nasty. No wonder America is one of the meanest and dumbest nations on Earth, especially on the East and West coast where there is considerable cult following of The Sopranos for another variety of Tony or one of the associate thugs biting off a live chicken's head every Sunday night each new season.

Tony Soprano and his band of thugs being caught, indicted and imprisoned, with the majority of them sentenced to the death row would be a fitting end to this dismal, morally braindead series. There's nothing human about them -- they are monsters disguised as mere human beings deserving of heroic compassion as envisioned by David Chase and his cigarette-dangling, laffe-sipping hack writers wearing black turtleneck shirts & hip frame eyeglasses hammering out drafts packed with creative mob violence in the safety of their cozy Hollywood Hills homes.

Zero star out of four

I had never heard of this show until a couple of weeks ago when someone started raving about it at a party. Soon others joined him in the glorification of the, what soon got to be called, 'show of the century'. I must say, I was intrigued.

I was even more intrigued by the big fat 9.2 this show gets here on IMDb. I mean, that was a first for me.

I found the complete first season on Usenet and started to watch anxiously as soon as the first episodes hit my harddrive.

I watched....and watched some more. Suddenly I woke up from the incredible loud hiss of my headphones which tend to make this sound after being inactive for too long to warn its owner its batteries are being sucked dry. I had fallen asleep like a baby. Talk about firsts.

I must have been tired I thought to myself so the next day I watched another episode and another one the day after that, etc etc. I got to about 5 of them.

Is it just me? (yes, apparently) or is there really nothing happening in this series which is even slightly compelling? It must be just me, all I see is just another episode of As the World Turns only this time using every goddamn mafia-cliché in the book.

The characters are Só cliché that it's simply impossible to find any of them likable (or even slightly interesting) and because of the whole mob-setting, I'm expecting a suspenseful watch only to be disappointed by a soap-with-the-f-word which to my surprise is dragged out over 7 seasons???!!

For a completely depleted theme, which to me the mafia had become after regretfully seeing 'Analyse This', to resurrect in a series where humor is lacking, originality is exiled and suspense has been replaced by Golden Girls caliber drama to be voted a 9.2 is truly beyond me.

Was the voting only open to teenagers who never saw the classics?

I am so sorry to say but this disgusting piece of turds is the most overrated and hyped thing in the history of the American television. Come on, nine and one half out of ten? This is almost genial! Let Kurosava comes out of the other land to commit again harakiri looking at these series! Let me count out the low downs:

• First, the script. Almost all the episodes consist of violence which is put there just for the entertainment; the mob bosses are present as normal human being, there is absolutely no reality in none of the episodes with minor exceptions. All in all, this is inept remake of Good fellas + Scarface + The Godfather (may God forgive me for the blasphemy of putting this sh*t in line with these fine movies!)

I don't know why the common intelligence in the American audience has fallen so low to accept this turd as an entertainment and to praise it as if it is the totem of film making, the only thing ever created since God created Earth.

The sole idea of depicting criminals as good fellas and to glorify them as heroes is rotten from the bottom of it. Having wrong ideas of the whole cosa nostra is idiotic. Having them mystified and glorified is moronic.

Don't say you haven't been warned.

well, i hate talking bad about things. but even more i hate wasting time following hypes.

giving it a second trial after years i must say, its no secret why this crap is successful in nominal ways. its flat, its average, it deals with crime in a way people would get who never touched beneath the skin of a crime. it comes like a cool thing, illegal, conspiracy, but somehow ideologic and stylish. maybe establishing ideas like the mafioso have at least the same moral stakes as politicians or most people. for those whose shorts get wet by that, there you go.

anyone else, maybe people who have taken the possible quality of American entertainment, the possible depths of possible subversion and the precision of complex, but accessible composition, just get overebored by ANY dialogue or monologue, by any face, any camera setting whatsoever. its a failure from the top of it which takes it down to the bottom, you can feel the same lack in nearly every concern. the main protags look and act like the most boring sidekicks in good shows (breaking bad, mad men, true blood, x-files, etc.). its like that kings of queens bullshit compared to al bundy. its fake.

therefore, 3 points. oh well, no. one point.

I have summers off from work and actually watched this whole show on HBOGo a couple years ago. This was a show I would watch off and on because it would come on after The Wire or a movie I watched back when it originally ran. I thought it was just terrible. James Gandolfini plays the most unconvincing mob boss of all-time. His character has no personality. He's just there. His crew are a bunch of unconvincing caricatures of Italians. They are 2D. There's no wow factor to the show, no one likable, no one worth caring about. I watched, what, seven seasons of the show and it still felt like the first season. Nothing really evolved or changed about the characters or their lives.

I'm absolutely baffled as to how anyone thought this was great TV. It wasn't. It's actually one of the worst TV shows I've ever seen. Kudos to the great marketing. Shame on Edie Falco for leaving a great role on Oz to play a miserable housewife on this show with nothing to do.

All my life, I've heard "The Sopranos" discussed as one of the greatest shows of all time-a must-watch. A classic. I kept telling myself that I'd eventually get around to it.

I just finished watching all six seasons for the first time. I'm a 32-year-old guy who absolutely loves movies like Goodfellas, The Godfather, Donnie Brasco, etc., and I'm a big fan of many HBO shows.

And let me tell you, I couldn't be more disappointed. I've racked my brain trying to understand what this show offers, and outside of the Mafia aesthetic, a few intense or heartbreaking scenes, and a handful of good performances (though many were almost comically bad), I can't come up with much.

Breaking it up into seasons seemed to serve no purpose other than giving the cast and crew periodic breaks. Asking someone what their favorite season of "The Sopranos" is would be a nonsensical question-they'd have to look it up and dig into various plot synopses to even tell them apart. The episodes and seasons all blur together into a monotonous family sitcom, with an occasional mob hit thrown in to remind you it's supposed to be a mob show, not just a story about a sad, dysfunctional family in suburban Jersey.

The whole time, I was waiting for the show to pick up and finally get interesting. By seasons 3 and 4, I was certain things would start heating up, but no. It's just the same cycle: the therapy sessions, family drama at the Soprano house, scenes with the guys at the Bing or the butcher shop, a little mob conflict-and then repeat the cycle all over again.

By season 6 I told myself that a season-long Mafia war was imminent. Finally, we'd see this story actually go somewhere it hadn't been a thousand times already. No. We got the same cycle over and over until the creators realized they had to do SOMETHING with the last couple episodes and we got a mini mob war that lasted one and a half episodes and was ended with a sit down after a couple hits. No Tony takeover. No all out war. Just the same old thing we'd seen for 6 seasons.

There was no real change or progression in the story at all. With "Breaking Bad," for example, we see a journey-a complete story where the characters' lives at the end are drastically different from where they began. The story and things happening in the later seasons are completely different from the things that were happening in the first couple seasons. The story WENT somewhere. From one place to another.

With "The Sopranos," if not for a few missing characters and being able to tell where A. J. and Meadow were in school, you'd have a hard time discerning a Season 6 episode from a Season 1 episode. They're basically all the same. It's not a journey from one place to another like any good story is. It's just daily life in Newark for this one group of people. Virtually the same life every day.

And don't even get me started on that finale ending. What an absolute disgrace. Total cop-out. A good show or film shouldn't require further explanation and clarification from the show runner through interviews and online articles months after the finale. The show's resolution should be evident on screen in the show itself.

James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Drea de Matteo, Michael Imperioli, and a handful of other actors gave great performances, but many of Tony's crew and other minor characters' actors delivered their lines like they were in a middle school film project. Some of those performances were comically bad. Like if SNL did a skit about mobsters.

What frustrates me most isn't even how monotonous, repetitive, cyclical, and boring the show was, nor the stagnant, unmoving nature of the plot, or even the horrendous cop-out ending. It's that just because it's for some reason considered a classic, people convince themselves it was actually exceptional. They're so afraid of "not getting it" or looking like they can't appreciate good art or entertainment that they pretend-and even convince themselves-that what they just watched was compelling, gripping, or a great story.

If I'm being completely honest, I'd give "The Sopranos" something like a 5.5, but given its undeservedly high rating, I feel compelled to rate it a 1 just to restore some balance.

Such a disappointment of a show. Now I'm terrified to finally get around to "The Wire." I fear it'll be cut from the same monotonous, stagnant, overrated cloth.

The dialogue bores me, the story bores me, the daughter annoys me, Tony sopranos nightclub is never happening, the muscle behind sopranos crew doesn't scare me. Where is the entertainment element to the show ? People are getting shot and i don't seem to care why. This is coming from someone who enjoyed shows like Breaking Bad, Ozark, Better Call Saul, Cobra Kai, The Boys, Animal Kingdom and Iron Fist.

"It's just TV; don't watch it" So that makes it OK then? The answer to that is No. No it's not.

The same old same old. New Jersey Italian guys are not only mobbed up, but uneducated. They speak with NY street accents in sub-vocal grunts.

They also love to portray NJ negatively - as if stupid NJ jokes told by generations of third rate comedians who should be playing Grossinger's were not enough. People who have never been here think that those "gritty" locations are representative of the state. Take a look at comments made on social media sites after hurricane Sandy.

What are the chances that a show doing this to another ethnic group would ever get off the ground?

Even worse is that young Italian Americans are aping these characters. That's how they're supposed to be, right?

I thought that I should give it a try to a show that is 9.2 rated. I regret the day that I made that decision. The producers found a successful formula to feed the masses: gangsters, profanity, sex, gluttony, loyalty, betrayal... From the first episode this show reminded me of a soap opera. There's no plot, there's no story development, the uni-dimensional characters don't evolve, nothing happens. I demand more from my entertainment time, this show does not deliver for me in any way.

I genuinely have never been so mislead and sent off about any movie or tv show like this before ever in my entire life. It's blasphemy that this is a show with anything less than a consistent 6.5 rating, the fact it's at a 9.2.... Words can't even describe, 7 at the most for me but because I watched it going into it knowing it's rating was a 9 and above? Solid 1. The overhype really kills the show for me, the action in it really isn't good, the acting is decent at most and the characters in the show are sometimes too unbearably cringe, I couldn't even finish the 6th season because of the amount of cringe.

Screenplay is way too slow and there are too many useless side stories. I wasn't able to watch after season 1. I have watched many series and this one is seriously waste of time. Story is not that great. 9.2 eh? It's seriously overrated.

After all the hype for this show I started watching it. If you liked Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie then you will enjoy it. You can place bets as to who get whacked next although they are so predictable. The production values are cheap as are the gratuitous naked broads in every episode. The main character's verbal tic of the sound of phlegm in his throat as he begins to speak is really annoying and makes me nauseous. The plotlines seem to have been made up on the spot and written on bits of paper which were subsequently lost by the scriptwriters. Overall a hyped up mess. The only redeming character is the scheming mother but her character is mostly under used in favor of depictions of violence and murders in broad daylight with the whole population of Pennsylvania seemingly vacationing in Wyoming.

Nothing more needs to be said. The ending sucked. Totally, completely, and forever. Ruined the show

This show is terrible. Any guy who says this is a great show is only saying that because the amount of sex and nudity in it. The main character is ugly and stupid . Every episode is about him cheating on his wife. Why would anyone want to watch that? The entire show is about a bunch of unintelligent guys running around cheating on their spouses and tattle telling on eachother to the police. Everyone betrays eachother, no can shoot a gun right to save their lives and most of the show is about sex, about dumb people cheating on their spouses or significant others. Take out the nudity and the male viewers would drop significantly as well as the ratings.

For a series thats 9 years old, it had one of the worst endings in history. I was a fan from day one and followed the series threw the good and the bad. I just watched the final episode to be disasppointed horribaly! What type of ending includes the fear of your cable going out? If and when the movies comes out, I will not go see it, I will not buy the DVD, I wont even watch it on public cable! A series that builds up the hype and to end on such a poorly done note was one of the worst in history!!! It HBO thinks they will make a dime off a movie they are terribly wrong! I highly doubt any hardcore fans will waste a penny to follow such a horrible ending!