Favorite Sopranos Scene?

0rion said

I'm watching it for the first time....almost done with it. Not a bad series but I honestly don't get why it was so popular. Bad acting and a story line that makes no sense at times. I keep waiting for certain stories to tie back in that haven't yet and the series is almost over. Should finish it this week at some point.

Click to expand...

You're looking at it in the context of modern TV. Truthfully, it is a weird evolutionary step between the self contained episodic stuff that was common in TV before and the serialized stuff we have now. It doesn't necessarily have big overarching arcs like modern TV, but it does have more connective tissue between episodes than most shows that came before it. Watching it for the first time now, it's difficult to understand just how different it was than anything else on the time.

This "Golden Age of TV" we have absolutely does not happen without "The Sopranos," but it also is a show that exists in a space between what TV was before it and what TV became after it.