[goldstategop]

The show that put HBO on the map. A high quality drama. Very addictive and you just had to see the next episode.

Company has “Game Of Thrones” but it will be remembered for “The Sopranos.”

HBO is premium entertainment for good reason.

[Captain Peter Blood]

You mean it's premium entertainment because it can use the F word gratuitously ad nauseum,throw in all the nudity also ,and that makes it something special.

Pulling people down to the lowest common denominator rather being moral and uplifting and showing that crime to an extent pays?

[Rockingham]

“The Sopranos” also changed the TV business by pioneering a production model that yields a great deal of control to the creator-writer-show runner. This permits more coherent and sophisticated story-telling that draws and holds viewers. As critics have noted, we are enjoying today a golden era of television that combines great writing, acting, and production values across a whole range of shows. And “The Sopranos” started it off.

[canuck_conservative]

A high quality drama

Like most mob movies, it painted a pretty glorified view of gang life ... the women, the parties, prison was a luxury joke, etc.

Never any real indication of the misery created by, or the consequences of, that "lifestyle".

Wonder how many dupes were encouraged to become criminals by The Sopranos?