The Sopranos

I suspect The Sopranos is my all time favourite TV series. Dark and deeply disturbing at times, hilarious at others, starkly violent, but sometimes gentle it had so many facets. I've watched the entire series twice now and there are always bits you missed the first time around and I doubt I'd be able to resist a third showing! The character Tony Soprano seems perfectly acted, exactly as you would expect a mafia boss to be. His wife Carmella changes dramatically through the series as she resigns herself to his behaviour and matures. The children, Meadow and Anthony Junior, grow up on screen and it's brilliant they gave Tony Soprano such a whining, ...

Sopranos was one of those shows where I knew it was around but didn't really think about watching it until it had ended and there was a lot of hype surrounding it. This was a good thing in my eyes though as I had the entire six series that I could sit there and work through. I will review the series separately but this is a general review on why I think the TV programme is so great. What is the Show About? The actual show is about the Sopranos family. Now by family here I mean it in two ways. The first is about Tony (the Dad), Carmela (the Mom), Meadow (the daughter) and A.J (the son). The show follows each of them around as you get to ...

For some bizarre reason, many people have a strange fascination with crime, especially organised crime, namely the mafia. Francis Ford Coppola particularly popularised it with his epic Godfather trilogy, and Martin Scorsese followed suit with gritty, street-level pictures such as Mean Streets, Goodfellas and Casino. There's something about this genre that is undeniably simultaneously enticing and repulsive. Perhaps it's because we, a society bound by rules and supposed mediocrity, admire these dark figures for their disregard for normality. Amidst the densely populated Western world, they make room for themselves, pushing their ambition beyond the constraints of the law. ...