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I won’t watch the depiction of mob activity for leisure enjoyment. The victims of mob activity, deserve more than that from me. It’s not the slightest bit entertaining. No character is going to be entertaining enough for me to watch. If they were, it would in part humanize them. There is no humanity in these people. I have nothing against Gandolfini. I am sorry he died so young.

Thank you for your post. I've never seen the Sopranos or the Godfather-type movies for just those reasons...I don't like the glamorization of evil. I used to listen to a talk show host here in Massachusetts for politics but got tired of his incessant plugging of his books and gleeful stories of Whitey Bulger and his mafia brethren, even going so far as to tease the "gruesome crime scene photos" of their victims on his web site. I'd hate to see Bulger's name kept alive in history like Bonnie & Clyde's are. The names of those killers are forever (in)famous, but the names of their victims and the sufferings of their families are hardly an afterthought...or worse, entertainment. That type of moral compromising has done nothing to benefit our nation.