Yes, it was. Before binge-watching TV shows was a big thing, I think I watched all of season one on VHS one night after somebody showed me the first episode.
Patsy, always interesting.
“Every last fucking coffee bean is in the computer and has to be accounted for! …”
“It’s over for the little guy!”
My favourite is when Furio and Tony truck up to the doctor on the golf course, swerving in front of him, and advise him that he’d better show Uncle Junior the respect he deserves. Furio telling him that golf is a “fucking-a stupid game” and knocking his cap off (“You got a bee on-a your 'at”) had me cheering.
Which of us doesn’t want to instill a little fear into our doctors to make them just a little less smug and ensure they concentrate completely on making us well instead of their golf swing? Just me again? Oh well…
Its things like that, that made me enjoy the whole story, from first to last episode.
In the past heroes were incredibly good but tough people.
Then they were emotionless people, but still very, very tough.
In the Sopranos it shows that people in that line of work can be brutal and sadistic while working, but seemingly ordinary family men, with all of their minor family and domestic problems when not working.
But often without any apparent “trigger”, they can go from a standing start into people we don’t ever want to see.
And then moments later they’re back to normal.
One of the finest programmes shown on tv EVER !
They had a good clip on The Daily Show as a Moment of Zen tribute.
I think that may be my favorite scene, when he yells at her and tells her to “take that high moral ground and go sleep in the fuckin’ bus station if you want!” It’s Tony Soprano, spelling out the real world, or at least his version of the real world, to his daughter, in no uncertain terms. “A grown man made a wager. He lost. He made another one. He lost again. End of story!”
Series One - Episode 10.
Later on Tony decides to play a joke as retribution on his neighbour Bruce Cusamano who originally invited him to the golf game. Tony wraps sand in a brown paper parcel, then talking confidentially to Bruce over the fence, hands over the parcel and asks Bruce to keep it for him (with a wink) for a while… Gulp!
Beautiful script writing and wonderful acting.
Aww fuggedaboudit, The Pine Barrens is one of the very best episodes.
And he wasn’t KGB or Russian army, he was an interior decorator, killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. 
But yeah, his apartment looked like schiesen
Actually Valery the Russian was ex-Spetsnatz which explained why he was so hard to kill and indeed we do not know to this day if he survived. I always thought he’d turn up on Paulie’s doorstep.
Lorraine Bracco’s response to that line is so natural, I’m wondering if it was sprung on her to get that belly laugh from her.
During the Sunday dinner scene at Junior’s…Junior says to AJ that Tony never had the makings of a Varsity Athlete and that he had small hands. After arguing back and forth Tony says, “When I was a kid, you told the girl cousins the same thing and it was very hurtful.” I don’t know why, but this scene makes me laugh my ass off!
Of course Christophers intervention. Tony finds out Christopher suffocated Aedrianna’s dog. “You killed little Cosette…I ought to suffocate you, you little prick.”