The Sopranos
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?
Where the plan didn’t come together and they all died?
Alf apparently ended with him getting snatched by the government for them to experiment on him. It was meant as a cliffhanger, but then it got cancelled. Kids must’ve LOVED that. 
Didn’t Dungeons & Dragons end with the kids NOT making it home?
I think they all got through the portal except the unicorn so they went back. Personally I’d have left him to it
‘Pine Barrens’. Probably the greatest TV episode of all time. Borderline Laurel & Hardy at times. Less the Oliver Hardy. 
“Mix it with the relish!” 
Ive started following a few facebook groups about sopranos recently and these scenes keep popping up in my feeds. Hilarious!
Christopher: He could be the one stalking us.
Paulie: With what?! His cock!!
Millsy will have to red card himself. Scones
Homegrove cliffhanger
Excellent film.
Millsy so funny. I was gutted that Tony’s mum didn’t make it through the series she was on course to be one of the all great TV characters imo
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Fave Sopranos ending…
@bosstrabs Just finished my second watch. Couldn’t agree more.
Ralphie was my fave character.