Is the Sopranos worth it now?

MuayThaiSteve79 said:
I finished my first run through about a month ago - at age 42 I wish I'd have watched it before now! For me, its the best TV series I've ever watched and I loved every minute. Looking back Season 1 was slow as the built the characters and story but at the time I had no basis for comparison. Well worth a watch and I'll definitely be revisiting it again in the not too distant future
Click to expand...
I wish I could watch it for the first time again. I was on my own for a week a few years ago and blasted it all again. Bliss.
 
Re-watched for the 3rd time a couple of years ago. #1 series of all time for me.

The Wire was great TV, but its soap opera compared to the Sopranos.
 
Season 1 is a little rough around the edges in terms of production vale considering how old it is, but almost every other aspect of the show makes up for it.

I still maintain that The Sopranos is the greatest show of all time. Period. Breaking bad is a close second.
 
fingercuffs said:
I wish I could watch it for the first time again. I was on my own for a week a few years ago and blasted it all again. Bliss.
Click to expand...
Yeah I know what you mean!

It was great watching on my own once the GF had gone off to bed and I could binge 3 or 4 episodes!
 
jnes said:
Watching the series for the first time and literally just watched that episode. Paulie is fuckin hilarious, always has the best zingers. That damn Russian is a unit.
Click to expand...
No, he was an interior decorator.
 
Not to spoil anything for TS, but some of the music was so well chosen. I had no idea this was the Rolling Stones back in the day, Keith Richards on vocals. Great use of it in the restaurant scene with Pussy earlier in the episode

 
TrueBias said:
Funny, i hear this a lot yet i dont hold it in high esteem.
Click to expand...

I think for me it's due to a few things.....Paulie is my favorite character, and I love the way he and Christopher interact (Paulie is always a dick to him). Then they get thrown into this situation because Paulie did something dumb, and Christopher finally gets the chance to give it back to him somewhat. Paulie is always super dramatic as well, and that gets pretty funny in this episode ("I could lose my foot!")
 
AGGAMEMNON66 said:
I began watching it when HBO 1st put it out.. got to the 2nd season and bailed. Just lost interest in some of the stuff they were doing. But that was a long long time ago.
Click to expand...

Same.

But I'm pretty mixed on whether I want to go back and invest 30 hours of my life (or whatever it is) into a show that I already know how it ends and I know many fans hated the ending of.
 
Gracious Warrior said:
I was pretty young when the Sopranos was the biggest thing on tv so I missed out on all the fun. I keep saying I'm gonna watch it but sadly I'm a binge watcher And the thought of binging all 86 episodes of this show makes me feel exhausted.

But is it worth it? How well does it hold up after more than 20 years from its start?
Click to expand...
Its still good. The first few episodes of the first seasons are ho-hum though.
 
watching it for the first time

real slowly
think I have been watching it since June... lol

on S5

overrated I'd say but some scenes are 10/10 with the filming & acting

i think i won't be finished for another few months and that shows how meh i think it is

breaking bad & the wire destroys it
 
jx820 said:
Same.

But I'm pretty mixed on whether I want to go back and invest 30 hours of my life (or whatever it is) into a show that I already know how it ends and I know many fans hated the ending of.
Click to expand...



Im willing to give it a shot because I know where it’s headed, when the show was 1st released and there was this huge emphasis on the shrink and the mob boss bitching about his family.. I lost interest. But knowing that stuff irons out and they do get into a lot of other things makes me a bit more interested.


I just couldn’t get into the shrink stuff, the mob stuff was interesting to me early on but the therapy threw me off too much
 
dracul said:
breaking bad & the wire destroys it
Click to expand...
oh please. The wire I get along (lets forget the forced and forgettable press angle in S5) but breaking bad is one absurd and often idiotic shitfest after the first seasons with plot armor as big as late game of thrones. Far far away from the character development, nuanced dialog and consistent story development of Sopranos. Its not even in the same Universe. BB if you want bombast with guys killed in seconds...etc. Everything else Sopranos by a mile!!

Unique nuanced and top class characters in Sopranos?
Tony, Johnny , Christopher, Silvio, Carmela, Artie , Sal, Richie (best menacing mafiosi ever), Livia, Junior Soprano and to that a crap load of fantastic smaller characters like Furio.Hesh...etc.
 
With all the vacuous garbage that clogs the Netflix front page these days, or other streaming sites, all existing for no other reason than the fact there is a need among viewers to burn time because they have more time to waste than hobbies to occupy it, and you're going to miss out on one of the only shows worth watching because-- only if you like it-- it will consume a greater chunk of this viewing share?

If this is where your motivations lie, by all means, go willy-nilly with six forgettable shows that burn out after a season because they weren't even worth watching for that long. At the end of the day, be real with yourself, you're going to watch 86 episodes of something. Nobody is going to force you to forsake the rough for the diamond.
 
Dream Evil said:
I think for me it's due to a few things.....Paulie is my favorite character, and I love the way he and Christopher interact (Paulie is always a dick to him). Then they get thrown into this situation because Paulie did something dumb, and Christopher finally gets the chance to give it back to him somewhat. Paulie is always super dramatic as well, and that gets pretty funny in this episode ("I could lose my foot!")
Click to expand...
I always picked the finales, of which i cant spoiler. Season 2 is a BITCH.
 
unpopular opinion here but I got about 5 episodes into sopranos AND the wire and lost interest.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Forum statistics

Threads
1,280,942
Messages
58,329,615
Members
176,000
Latest member
Markooz86

Share this page

Back
Top