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Soundwave said:
AlfredoTurkey said:

The Simpsons, Seinfeld, All In the Family, The Honeymooners, South Park, Mash, Cheers... there are many shows which were better in their prime. The Sopranos isn't even better, imo, than the Godfather which it owes it's entire existence.

Well I mean The Godfather is probably considered by a lot of people to be the greatest movie of the last 40 years ... so for the Sopranos to be anywhere close is a huge compliment.

Not to mention that Sopranos is full of Godfather references. The Sopranos characters love the GF movies and cite them several times (which imo is a subtle criticism of the movies which were approved back in the 1970s by the actual US mafia). In fact, Sopranos is better and way more subtle than Godfather imo as it doesn't glorify the mafia or violence in general. I love the first two GF movies but you can't deny that Coppola shows some admiration for the mafia in his mobster movies (just like Mario Puzo in his bestselling source material); btw: the same is also true for Scorsese imo, although to a lesser extent. 

The Sopranos on the other hand is the antithesis to the Godfather movies, as it fully (and slowly) depicts its characters as the sociopaths they are (some of the best and darkest moments of the show are quite shocking imo). It's also the first series to show the bitter role the wifes and girlfriends are playing in "professionally criminal" families, i.e. not questioning or discussing the men's actions, even if you suspect that the disappeared husband of your best friend has just been killed by - probably - your own husband or - probably - by one of his - presumed - killers which are all friends of the family, even if the hubby/BF is cheating on you at every occasion with anyone he's in the mood for. As long as the money keeps rolling in, the ladies are content, at least on the surface. The writing is brilliant, easily one of the best shows ever created.



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