If you haven't watched The Sopranos this week but intend to, go away now and come back after you've seen it. Well, The Sopranos is over unless there is a movie in the works. I kinda doubt that. If there really were two other endings shot, I think I would have preferred one of them ... EITHER ONE. First off, they got some very unlikely help from Phil's crew and the FBI. I found that a little pleasing and displeasing at the same time. I liked that they got him but I don't think it would have been that easy. Throughout the show, Tony and Paulie showed up at the usual places where Phil's people would have been looking for them. Nothing happened but the tension was mounting. Finally, creator/producer/director/writer David Chase tantalized us with tension in a diner building up to a big ending in the final scenes and then pulled the rug out from under us. I feel cheated. There are some who are saying this was an appropriate way to end, that this is Tony Soprano's life and always has been. He has so many enemies that every opening door is a threat. Maybe so but we deserved a conclusion. We deserved answers, not questions. I'm disappointed.
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Quote of the Day
After eight years and six seasons, HBO's landmark Mob saga The Sopranos didn't so much end as stop.
Robert Bianco, USA TODAY
Blog of the day here.
Quote from said blog: "Alan Sepinwall writes that series creator David Chase threw one final curveball at his audience that fit perfectly with everything done on this show before."
All I've heard about the series finale was disappointment. I'm kinda glad I've never watched it. I hate it when shows go off the air and leave you feeling cheated.
It was great TV for a while, Andrea. It then meandered a little and fizzled out. The three or four episodes leading up to the final one were pretty good, though. I'm in if a movie or conclusion is in the works but I won't be watching reruns or buying DVDs.
I missed most of last season and all of this season.
Several years ago the guys were chasing a Russian through the woods and one of them shot the guy. I'm pretty sure you could see a bit of the Russian's scalp pop off. They never found the body, and I kept waiting for the guy to reappear.
So, did the Russian ever show back up?
Never did, delmer. We'll never know what happened to him.