The Sopranos

Smallman1

Any Scrubs fans here?

Thought not.

Millsy

Smallman1 I don’t want no Scrubs in this thread.

seanc80

Breaking Bad shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same sentence as The Sopranos.

jonattonyeah

seanc80

The last few episodes of Breaking Bad are up there for me. They’re really good. The two are just very different shows even if at the end of the day they’re about the same thing - family. I don’t really compare them. They seem like they’re in different universes. The Wire and The Sopranos had similar pacing so I don’t mind debating those two. Breaking Bad is very different, to my mind.

EDIT I guess I’d say The Sopranos feels like a really long movie. Breaking Bad feels like TV.

Mad_Cyril

seanc80 Breaking Bad shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same sentence as The Sopranos.

Cunning

bosstrabs

seanc80 He is only looking for good TV recommendations, you repugnant-clothed fuck

Along_the_Wire

jonattonyeah Breaking bad had three good series tops. Everyone else should’ve been killed in real life after that.

seanc80

The Sopranos makes Breaking Bad look like a fucking sitcom.

Along_the_Wire

seanc80 spot on that.

-si-

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?

LT42

No Si, theres 8 more seasons.

Smallman1

LT42 No Si, theres 8 more seasons.

Lol!

Old-Dutch

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

-si-

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…

Old-Dutch

https://screenrant.com/sopranos-finale-ending-explained-cut-black/

-si-

Old-Dutch

“It was a moment that, in 2007, had millions of viewers across America genuinely convinced that their HBO had cut out or their TV sets were broken.”

Lol, 14 years later and this still applies to those of us who have only just watched it!

Unbroken1

….its a fucking sham of an ending, that’s what it is, and even fucking Chase himself can’t convince me otherwise.

-si-

Unbroken1

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!

Unbroken1

-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.

Old-Dutch

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

LT42

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.

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