Favorite Sopranos Scene?

Regarding the awfulness of the characters, that was definitely the point, and its a pretty common theme in literature, drama, etc.

Awful people are just more interesting. Go back and watch those 90s shows like Seinfeld and Friends and how shallow, self-centered and idiotic nearly everyone on those shows are.

In older times, it was common to show how these personality flaws led people to their own demise. But in modern times everything is laughed off as a joke. Well usually, sometimes if you watch closely, these characters do sort of "get whats coming to them"