The Sopranos

Entourage A Must For Lovers Of Great Television

source: Voxy

 New Zealand To truly appreciate the characters and plots you need to have watched from the pilot as, like the great dramas on fellow HBO shows The Sopranos and Six Feet Under, there is much in the way of ongoing character development and cross references across ...

Published Tue, May 19

True Blood, season 1

source: my.opera.com

However, much like a baby learning to walk, with every episode, they improved. The cheese gradually declined to an acceptable level, and the characters started feeling less off. Many of them still felt (or feel, for that matter) highly stupid or uninteresting, but at least they started fe...

Published Wed, Dec 17

Mad Men is a Better Show than The Sopranos

source: O Danny Boy

Mad Men cares about the context the drama lives in. The characters aren't modern day types dropped into spiffy suits. We can see how their characters are shaped by the time and visa versa. We barely even knew what decade it was with The Sopranos, aside from some 9/11 references.

Published Mon, Sep 29

Sons Of Anarchy pilot review

source: Yet Another TV Review Podcast

Type of Pilot: Drama Similar Shows: The Sopranos (they are bad guys, but we like them), The Shield (they are bad guys, but we like them) Impressive Characters: Gemma Teller Morrow (played by Sagal) is one tough lady. Although this is the story of her son Jackson she gets a lot to do in the pilot and she's fun to watch. Jackson... not so much. Less-Than-Impressive Actors: Most members of the club are just forgettable faces in the crowd, but this is early days. Lots of episodes ahead to flesh them out as characters. Thus giving good actors like Kim Coates a chance to shine. Maggie Siff has a few scenes are a potential love-interest for the hero (Charlie Hunnam). Three Things I Really Like About This Pilot: Three Things I Really Don't Like About This Pilot:

Published Sun, Sep 14

Wild about 'Mad Men': A talk with creator Matthew Weiner

source: Chicago Tribune

How many times did the actions of those characters surprise us, yet were in keeping with what we’d learned about them? It was a sickening shock when Tony Soprano killed Christopher Moltisanti in the final season. But given what we’d seen of Tony’s calculating, brutal side, it wasn’t reall...

Published Mon, Oct 15

The The Sopranos Finale: It's All About the Journey

source: Blogcritics

The Sopranos always has come across as particularly truthful, whether it was the violence that so influenced the lives (and deaths) of the characters, or the philandering of the men with women who were not their wives and girlfriends. There was also real human interaction between charac...

Published Mon, Jun 11

TV Review: The Sopranos: "Made in America" (6x21)

source: Blogcritics

To that end, almost all the long-running characters get a nice farewell. We see Janice becoming her mother, something that’s made literal in the great scene where Junior calls Janice Livia and her daughter, Janice. Janice already resents Bobby’s children and will likely be so overprotec...

Published Mon, Jun 11

Final look at 'The Sopranos' characters

source: Seattle Post Intelligencer

NEW YORK -- The eruption heard across the country Sunday night at 10:03 p.m. EDT: Collective exclamations of "What?" "Are you kidding me?" and " $&!?"

Published Mon, Jun 11