The Sopranos makes Breaking Bad look like a fucking sitcom.
The Sopranos
seanc80 spot on that.
What the absolute fuck? Can anyone confirm if my sky q box went on the blink? I watched the final episode last night. Is this how it all ends?
No Si, theres 8 more seasons.
Yep. I remember being really underwhelmed with it at the time - quite a lot of people were. The director explains it all in an interview he did afterwards where it makes a lot of sense, but it certainly divided a lot of opinion
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Have already started on the fucking vast array of articles and theories, dutch! Must find the directors view on it. Very interested to read that…
….its a fucking sham of an ending, that’s what it is, and even fucking Chase himself can’t convince me otherwise.
Certainly not what i was expecting, mate! Reading some of the articles and theories you can understand the ambiguity of it, leaving people to make their own minds up, and referencing the subtle nods during the final episodes towards death, if you want to take it down that route. They also seemed to stick to their guns right until the end, in terms of veering away from any of the expected mafia cliched endings but fuck me, i was hoping for something more final than that, for fuck sake!
Yeah think it was a shame that pretty much everyone agrees it’s up there with the best TV shows ever made but the ending really goes out with a whimper
I never had a problem with it. The show and Tony’s character became so big and popular that it seems like they were on a hiding to nothing with writing the ending, impossible to please everyone. Leaving it open to interpretation worked well for me in that sense. For me, Tony is still out there chewing Paulie out and eating those tasty looking sambos from Satriales.
-si- …yeah, I get that, if the style of the show was ethereal, Twin Peaks-style viewer interpretation… its a brilliant show in so many ways, but it was never that IMO
It just veered too far away from the language of the show for my liking… struck me it was a way that Chase could easily deliver something that would cause a massive hoo-ha, but v little satisfaction.
I love the ending.
…its shit FFS
YOU’RE SHIT!
…harsh 
I never had an issue with the ending either. The fact that people are still talking about it nearly 15 years later. The ending is open to interpretation and there are clues all the way thru the final season to suggest that he was killed as Meadow walked in the door or nothing happened and they continued having dinner. The point is that it could happen anywhere at anytime and not Tony nor the viewer would see it coming. It would be over before he/you knew it.
“Perhaps the best way to look at it is that we the viewers get whacked, not Tony.”
Out of interest what would have been a good ending in your opinion?
SM001 Out of interest what would have been a good ending in your opinion?
I have no idea, shane. I genuinely thought the way the final series was headed that tony was going get whacked. Or something bad would happen to one of the family. I suppose he may well have done, you have basically reworded what i posted above already about the ending. Just thought it was a bit meh! On reading the articles i have so far, i can see how it works in terms of an ending. Always leave them wanting more…
Or are we now getting offended at people upvoting a post like LT’s, which was funny?
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I like the ending. It’s probably the most shocking thing in tv history. I remember watching it live and everyone thought their cable box had gone down.
I’m not sure how you go about ending a show of that breadth so being weird about it is fine with me. It’s also an incredibly well done scene. Meadow being late. Playing Journey which shouldn’t work but does. I remember being on the edge of my seat that Sunday night.
I get people not liking it as it is a bit of a cop out. But nobody ever forgets it.
Will say the ending of Six Feet Under is incredible. The Wire was meh despite them being really good at closing montages (season 2, specifically). The Shield, while stupid to some, has a gut-wrenching last episode. Oh! Generation Kill. The closing episode with them watching the video and the Johnny Cash song….so well done.
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jonattonyeah i loved that ending …..it works for everyone - one one level he got whacked by NY or the remnants of NJ having done a deal with Little C and Butchy …on another level he just carried on and stood trial based on Carlo’s testimony. He’d had a good run tbf, with the feds never quite having the material to pinch him but the arrest of Johnny S must have told him that they would get him eventually. I keep watching it and it keeps giving me new things - the seance scene, for example - LMAO!!!
I don’t know how else they could’ve ended it. It’s a NJ Mob show, sure, but it’s really about the Soprano family. Carmela could be annoying but that was the point. AJ sucked but that’s how it goes raising a son. Meadow was perfect so nothing to say there.
To end it with some sort of mob thing - a death or whatever - would miss the what the show was trying to humanize. It ended with the family together and that’s no accident.
jonattonyeah good point - made sense to end it with the focus on the family - now why am i now craving some onion rings???!!!!!
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Yep, lovely thought to have your wife and kids witness your brains being blown out as you sit down to dinner
jonattonyeah The Wire was meh despite them being really good at closing montages
The Wire didn’t really need a proper finale in the same way that others did though.
It was very much 5 separate seasons, woven together loosely with some common characters.
jonattonyeah Generation Kill was cracking - good shout there JTY
the sopranos ending is one of the reasons i put it behind oz and six feet under. it’s a complete cop out, they didn’t want to fuck it up by writing something concrete that would have to make sense in context. people can interpret it all they like and enjoy it, but it’s shit writing and the show deserved better. and i say that as someone who loved it and thinks it’s one of the better shows ever made.
Twin Peaks: The Return has the best ending of any TV show ever.
Lynch masterclass.
Episode 17 utter dogshit, then pulled out the bag with an utterly mindblowing final episode.
Fairly sure I’ve never watched an episode of Twin Peaks, looks like pretentious bobbins to me.
An avant garde clusterfuck.
Anyone remember the final episode of the A-Team?