If you liked Sopranos, you’d love Breaking Bad. I have run into a few people who genuinely dislike the show, but they those folks love The Big Bang Theory and The Housewives of the OC so your basic moron segment of the viewing public. It can be very cerebral, but as a lover of Vince Gilligan for a while since the X-files days the guy has really honed his craft.
I didn't like Sopranos.
I already knew that mobsters were - at best - ordinary schlubs. I already knew that members of La Cosa Nostra have to deal with many ironic moral inversions in their private lives. Neither of these insights are profound or particularly useful.
I'm sure that if you could have looked into the home life of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, or for that matter Saddam and Samira Hussein, you would have found that they had all the usual banal problems anyone else has. OK, they could deal with those problems using lethal force or torture, but those methods bring their own sets problems you wouldn't want to have, can't learn anything from, and cause nightmares. Who needs to know? Pfui.
Not so....IMO.
The Sopranos was heavy on the sex, gooombas and infidelity....not very sympathetic.
BB is initially about setting up the family in case of death, unintentionally making meth that is really good stuff and brings top dollar, out smarting the “bad guys” and getting too greedy. And that’s just Walt....
While pretty violent, it’s a great study in human development and strategy.
The characters are great and well-created.
And I like and watch OC Housewives, Game of Thrones and Walking Dead, for what it’s worth.