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The Sopranos (TV Series)

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The Sopranos

1999

David Chase (Creator), Timothy Van Patten ...

James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Lorraine Bracco, Michael Imperioli ...

8.5

59,263

TV Series. Thriller. Drama. Comedy TV Series (1999-2007). 6 Seasons. 86 Episodes. The Sopranos is an American television drama created by David Chase. The series revolves around the New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. It also features Tony's family members and Mafia associates in prominent roles ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Tim Goodman SFGATE	"It's the best series on television, end of story"
		Robert Bianco USA Today	"This is 'The Sopranos' at its best -- and that's just about as good as TV ever gets. Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"
		Alessandra Stanley The New York Times	"The most creative and richly imagined (...) it begins by going over old ground and yet something new and totally surprising happens"
		Tom Shales The Washington Post	"Television's greatest drama series has only gotten greater"
		Brian Lowry Variety	"It never fails to fascinate, creating a completely organic world in which it's easy to forget the art and artifice that go into realizing Chase's vision"
		Mark Lawson The Guardian	"The best TV drama of all time (...) [It] blended unprecedented realism with an equally unusual surrealism"
		Todd VanDerWerff AV Club	"It's probably one of the two or three most influential primetime dramas ever made (...) 'The Sopranos' is a dreamlike show in all the best senses of that word"
		Barry Garron The Hollywood Reporter	"Director Chase chooses shots carefully to keep levels of gore from becoming excessive, not a small achievement here"
		Rob Sheffield Rolling Stone	"It changed the world. Chase showed how much storytelling ambition you could bring to television"
		William Thomas Empire	"'The Sopranos' still has a formidable presence. It’s complex, fearless and wonderfully ambiguous (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"[It] truly redefined the terms of the form (...) This show isn’t just timeless, it’s still current."
		IGN	"If there's a genre that never seems to tire, it's the MOB genre."

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