- His separation hasn’t been working out. His nephew’s fiance has become a distraction. His paroled cousin is giving off bad vibes. His business rival is looking for payback. His therapist isn’t buying into the “other Tony.” It’s enough to send any mob boss over the edge. Hell hath no fury like The Sopranos.Running Time: 780 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR Age:
His separation hasn’t been working out. His nephew’s fiance has become a distraction. His paroled cousin is giving off bad vibes. His business rival is looking for payback. His therapist isn’t buying into the “other Tony.” It’s enough to send any mob boss over the edge. Hell hath no fury like The Sopranos.
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Facing an indeterminate sentence of weeks/months/years until new episodes, fans of The Sopranos are advised to take the fifth; season, that is. At this point, superlatives don’t do The Sopranos justice, but justice was at last served to this benchmark series.
 James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano in a not-so-nice mood |
For the first time, The Sopranos rubbed out The West Wing to take home its first Emmy® for Outstanding Dramatic Series. Michael Imperioli and Drea de Matteo also earned Best Supporting Actor and Actress honors for some of their finest hours as Christopher and Adriana. From the moment a wayward bear lumbers into the Sopranos’ yard in the season opener, it is clear that The Sopranos is in anything but a “stagmire.” The series benefits from an infusion of new blood, the so-called “Class of 2004,” imprisoned “family” members freshly released from jail. Most notable among these is Tony’s cousin, Tony Blundetto (Steve Buscemi, who directed the pivotal season three episode “Pine Barrens”! ), who initially wants to go straight, but proves himself to be something of a “free agent,” setting up a climactic stand-off between Tony and New York boss Johnny Sack.
 Carmela and Tony |
These 13 mostly riveting episodes unfold with a page-turning intensity with many rich subplots. Estranged couple Tony and Carmela (the incomparable James Gandolfini and Edie Falco) work toward a reconciliation (greased by Tony’s purchase of a $600,000 piece of property for Carmela to develop). The Feds lean harder on an increasingly stressed-out and distraught Adriana to “snitch” with inevitable results. This season’s hot-button episode is “The Test Dream,” in which Tony is visited by some of the series’ dear, and not-so-dearly, departed in a harrowing nightmare. With this set, fans can enjoy marathon viewings of an especially satisfying season, but considering the long wait ahead for season six, best to take Tony’s advice to his son, who, at one point, gulps down a champagne toast. “Slow down,” Tony says. “You’re supposed to savor it.” –Donald Liebenson
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March 5, 2010
#1
The Sopranos is one of the most overrates tv-series ever!
These guys aren’t even funny!
Hups! Mafia will do me in…
March 5, 2010
#2
The main arguement has to be that no episode leads into another with sequential material to make for broad expressed themes. What we have here is simply one episode like a mini bad gangster movie with nothing to do with the prior episodes and nothing to do with the next episodes. Infact much of the storyline could be viewed backwards and no one would miss anything. Sure there are brief storylines from previous seasons such as Adriana’s work for the feds and Christopher’s drug use but these are handled in such obvious ways the viewer could easily see them coming (from previous seasons mind you). There is little to no action, no gang wars, just a few dopey unfunny characters that speak in cliches on topics of today such as terrorism or the economy. More disturbing then the lack of material given in the fifth season is the fact that the show was critically acclaimed and won several emmy awards. It could be simply the emperor has no clothes and Chase has taken to caring more about the large production and stars than essentials such as story.
March 5, 2010
#3
Having been a dyed-in-the-wool Soprano’s fan since Season 1, I found it quite difficult to wait so long for the release of Season 5 on DVD. I don’t have satellite or cable, so I’ve only seen the Sopranos by buying the DVD box sets.
For all this time, I’ve carried on a running argument with myself and my best friend Trent about which is the better TV series, The Sopranos or Stargate SG-1. Trent has always leaned a bit towards the Sopranos and I’ve been hard put to make a choice.
Season 5 of the Sopranos finally made the choice for me. I can hardly stand to watch it. It is so boring, and so seeminly superficial. New characters by the dumptruck load do nothing to increase the watchability of this season.
It is so boring, that, even though I own the complete box sets for the first 5 seasons, I may just simply forego buying the final 6th season, whenever that may be available. I certainly am not going to stay up late watching for signs of it’s impending release.
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March 5, 2010
#4
Thank God for DVD’s so you can fast forward through all of the worthless family drivel marketed to women as shamelessly as Wesley Crusher was marketted to pre-adolescents in the Star Trek series. This shows emphasis on the family life is an obvious appeal to semi- intellectuals in much the same way The Passion of the Christ was when it made its play with the subtitles.If I had to watch this show in real time, well I just couldn’t.
And much of the mob action is also piss poor. When we think about the protection rackets do we really want to know how they play out in the lawn maintenece industry?
Admittedly, since the fast forward button was put into such liberal effect, I might have missed something, but why did Tony B go off the reservation and place his entire family in jeopardy when he could have just worked for Tony in the first place? And what was that botched job with Phil? Well, whatever. Eventually, the season redeemed itself with the end of the Adrianna and Tony B storylines,but the fluff is so obviously forced just to fill the season which should have been cut in half. Are we really so addicted to t.v. that we can’t see that this is the most overrated show on t.v.? I’m addcited to it just because I keep hoping it will get better and Gandolfini and a few of the others really are that good, but its quite silly all of the uncritical praise it recieves.
March 5, 2010
#5
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