Neri,

The reasons that you and SC stated above are the exact reasons that I like The Sopranos. When watching this show it is very easy for the viewer to view these mobsters as funny and sometimes glorified. But all of a sudden a scene will fall upon us where a character such as Tony, who we may get comfortable with for several episodes, all of a sudden will cold bloodedly murder someone, or a Paulie Walnuts will violently kill an old woman for her money! While the writing will make you sit back and enjoy the characters, it will also bring you right back into the reality of what lowlife theiving murderers that these people really are! Hey, didn't we all love Joe Pesci in Goodfellas? Funny, humorous, daring......and then when he cold bloodedly shoots the kid Spider you stood there with your bottom jaw hanging, realizing that this funny guy that you were begining to like has just killed a young kid over a drink! Right back to reality. Yes, that is what they really are about.


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