Is it my imagination, or is it impossible to open a magazine and NOT see some story, no matter how short or long, on this show? Hey, I KNOW it’s a good tv show, but come on! Stories in every major news magazine, in Rolling Stone, hell, even my local Channel Guide had a page on it!
Anyway, I guess this is sort of a rant. But it’s on a Cafe Society subject, so I think it belongs here. I just want to know if anyone else thinks this show has received waaaaaaay too much publicity.
I don’t have HBO now. When I did, I wasn’t terribly impressed with the show. I do like many of the actors, but I just don’t get it.
I sure am.
I, too, am sick and tired of hearing about the sopranos.
All those poor mezzos, altos, tenors, baritones, and basses out there are getting the short shrift.
I’m not but I can certainly understand why someone else would be, especially if they either don’t watch or don’t like the show.
I don’t read any of the stuff because I’m afraid they’ll give something away. Just let me watch it and figure it out.
I don’t like any of the mob-related entertainment except for perhaps The Freshman. “No thank you” to The Godfather, The Sopranos, The Untouchables ad nauseum.
I am. Hate the show. You can stick that and “American Idol” down the crapper as far as I’m concerned.
Esprix
I can’t say I’ve ever been impressed. The characters are constantly struggling to get out of situations they create for themselves through their own macho stupidity.
“Hey, I have an idea for this week’s story! Christopher bumps into a guy in the supermarket, and instead of just ignoring it and moving on, he starts shooting and accidentally hits an underboss’s cousin and kicks off a whole revenge thing that … etc etc etc.”
The novelty of having a mob captain see a shrink has worn off, and the death of Nancy Marchand removed a major story point. The kids are obnoxious (especially the son) so I won’t be checking out the new season.
I am too. I heard about this show repeatedly, so when the local video store started offering it for rent, finally, I rented the first four episodes. Oh wow, it’s a family drama, with all that entails, but guess what! He works for the mob! <rolls eyes> I watched the first two episodes, and part of the third before deciding that I really don’t like this show.
This show depresses me. I’ve watched maybe 2 1/2 episodes, and they are all the same- the same people with the same problems in a hopeless dead-end situation. And all this media hype about how mobsters are somehow tough, exciting, yet ‘regular’ people. It kind of sickens me, as they are none of these. I have this deep personal issue with criminals being glorified. :rolleyes:
Hear, hear. Scorsese has made a career out of glorifying organised crime. Now Guy Ritchie has jumped on that band-wagon. The Sopranos has everything - good plot, good acting, good scripts - except moral value.
I recently watched three episodes on tape, and wasn’t terribly impressed. I’ll give it credit though, it’s well written and acted, but god, it’s boring. It’s just dull, it was like watching really skilled people put on a production of lint migration.
I didn’t realize Pat Robertson and Dan Quayle hijacked everybody’s screen names. No wonder the board was down for a few days. 
“Psychiatry and cunnilingus brought us to this”
I like the show. I don’t have HBO, but I’ve watched the DVDs. It’s a good show. But god damn, people, it’s just a TV show. It’s not front page news, especially at the moment. Are we so starved for good entertainment that a TV show is national headlines?
No.
I like The Sorpranos and even I’m sick of all the commercials for it.
It’s a good show, though. It’s one of my favorites. I have all three seasons on DVD. There is no show I watch for moral value. In fact, I’d say if a show is advertised as having moral value, odds are I’ll avoid it like the plague.
I think it is well written, the directing is good, and the actors are good. I also think that the series is getting a bit stale and they should end it soon. Of course I think all HBO series are like that. I liked Oz but the plots started getting more and more ridiculous and I liked 6 Feet Under but it started to bore me before the end of the 1st season.
On another note, I to am bothered by how many people seem to like Tony Soprano. We’ve got a guy who causes a great amount of pain to his family and those who are victimized by his criminal organization. Heck, I’ve heard women who say he’s sexy. Go figure.
Marc
Sing it, sister.
(Here, I wrote several paragraphs that really were better off left in the Pit, so I deleted them before posting. Tony and Co. have taught me something about thinking before I speak. :))
Moral value - bad term, perhaps instead I should have just pointed out that the the show glamourises organised crime and makes heros out of thugs. Any show that does that, to me, is worthless.
I’m not so much sick and tired of it, but when I visited cnn.com the other day and it was on their front page way up top that the new season was premiering, I thought that was rather ridiculous.
Come on, there’s nothing else worthy of top billing on the page? [and no, it wasn’t in their Entertainment section - it was at the top!]