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‘Sopranos’ rocks at the Emmys

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[17.Sep.07] :. At the end of the Emmys Sunday night, after “The Sopranos” won for best drama and the cast and crew were swarming on stage, you half expected a guy in a Members Only jacket to cross the...

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With ‘Sopranos’ out of the picture, HBO’s family needs new blood

by Neal Justin [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[1.Aug.07] :. LOS ANGELES - HBO, the Rolls Royce of television, is experiencing engine trouble. In the past four months, it has lost its most powerful drivers, both in front of the camera and behind it. The pay...

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The Sopranos: Series Finale

by Marisa Carroll

[19.Jun.07] :. A priest once explained to Carmela, "God understands that we all live in the middle of tensions." David Chase understands that too.

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‘Sopranos’ star says he doesn’t know if he’s dead

by Denis Hamill [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[15.Jun.07] :. NEW YORK—“I have no idea what happened to Tony,” actor James Gandolfini said Thursday night, standing aboard The Highlander, the Forbes family yacht at Pier 60 on Manhattan’s...

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Even if you didn’t watch ‘The Sopranos,’ you knew about it

by Eric Mink [St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)]

[14.Jun.07] :. Sunday night, in a stream of post-finale babble veering dangerously close to rant, my comparison of “The Sopranos” to the serialized fiction of Charles Dickens proved to be the last...

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‘Sopranos’ defies demand for answers

by Karen Heller [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[14.Jun.07] :. Permit this space a revisiting of “The Sopranos” finale, so far the entertainment event of the year, the series the artistic achievement of the decade, the one to best. The ending was...

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Sopranos follow-up

by Jason Gross

[12.Jun.07] :. Thanks for all the interesting comments on my Sopranos post from yesterday.  I just wanted to add info about an interesting article I saw about the finale (and forgetting the numerous fits some...

 

‘Sopranos’ doesn’t end - it just stops

by David Bianculli [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[11.Jun.07] :. NEW YORK - After all the hype and expectations about Sunday night’s final episode of HBO’s “The Sopranos,” the mob drama series didn’t end with a bang. It didn’t...

 

‘The Sopranos’: Did the audience get whacked?

by Jason Gross

[11.Jun.07] :. Like millions of other pop culture fans, I watched the final episode of TV icon The Sopranos, breathlessly waiting for a big finale.  And we all got it but not the one we were...

 

‘Sopranos’ set a new standard for portraying life in the underworld

by Robert Trussell [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[10.Jun.07] :. And so it ends. No more weekly ride with Tony Soprano from the Lincoln Tunnel past smoke-belching factories to his McMansion in suburban New Jersey. No more Bada Bing Club. No more sit-downs. No...

 

At the center of ‘The Sopranos’ was its genuine humanity

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[7.Jun.07] :. There was a moment a few weeks back, when Tony Soprano was talking with his psychiatrist, complaining that bad things keep happening around him. “I’m a good guy,” he said....

 

How will ‘The Sopranos’ end?

by Hal Boedeker [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[4.Jun.07] :. How will it end? Badly. For the characters, that is. The series finale of “The Sopranos” will be a much-analyzed event. All signs point to a grim conclusion on June 10. Death,...

 

The ratings rules of thumb are being ‘timeshifted’

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[26.Apr.07] :. After three weeks, HBO’s “The Sopranos” is rocking. The stories have been twisted gems, filled with portent, mind games, hits and layers of tension. And ratings are down. Sort...

 
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The Sopranos

by Marisa Carroll

[25.Apr.07] :. The problem with the Soprano family, as Bobby chided Tony, is that they "always go too far." It's also a primary reason the show is so compelling.

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The Sopranos Is the Most Influential Television Drama Ever

by Maureen Ryan [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[23.Apr.07] :. No one-hour drama series has had a bigger impact on how stories are told on the small screen, or more influence on what kind of fare we've been offered by an ever-growing array of television networks.

 

Missed Tony’s new episode? No you haven’t

by Phil Rosenthal [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[17.Apr.07] :. Based on all the hype for the return last Sunday of HBO’s “The Sopranos,” you would have thought a veritable mob of viewers would be camped out in front of their sets to see Tony,...

 
 
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