Mr. Kiss-Kiss, Bang-Bang: Mobster Tony Soprano Back on TV Sunday Night
Jim Kouri, CPP
March 12, 2006
The Sopranos, which premieres Sunday evening, is probably the most anticipated show in broadcast and cable television history. This will be the final season for a show that's done as much to romanticize organized crime as the motion pictures The Godfather trilogy and Goodfellas.
The fictional organized-crime drama, starring James Gandolfini, Edie Falco and Michael Imperioli, returns after a two-year hiatus and fans can't wait. What's more, fans hope they won't be disappointed in The Sopranos' swan-song season.
The show, which HBO premiered in 1999, is the story of New Jersey Don, Tony Soprano. But rather than only dramatizing crime capers, violence and sex -- which the show provides in abundance -- The Sopranos adds Freud, Jung, Faust and the mob's Desperate Housewives well before we knew there were desperate housewives and girlfriends.
Last year, The Sopranos guru David Chase told the media that the final season of the Emmy-winning show will concentrate on money and materialism. He said that "consumerism" was all the characters in the mob drama cared about.
The final season's first 12 episodes begins Sunday through June and the final eight will begin airing in January 2007. So far, that is, since the airing of one of the most successful US cable TV series in history has been somewhat erratic with the real-life problems of the cast, including one actor arrested for killing a cop in New York and one arrested on drug charges.
While the plot-lines are cloaked in secrecy the CIA would envy, some leaks indicate major characters will get their comeuppance. One leak reveals that Tony's wife, Carmella, will get a taste of bloodletting when she kills someone who angers her.
Last season viewers got a sense that Tony Soprano was so deeply involved in his own personal crises that he was oblivious to what was going on with his motley crew of gangsters, ex-girlfriends and his own nephew. This season look for Tony to lower his guard so much that the FBI agents, who've been dogging him and his gang for years, will make inroads on their investigation.
Basically, this last season of The Sopranos will either go down as the best and most memorable, or it can go the route of "that's it???"
The fictional organized-crime drama, starring James Gandolfini, Edie Falco and Michael Imperioli, returns after a two-year hiatus and fans can't wait. What's more, fans hope they won't be disappointed in The Sopranos' swan-song season.
The show, which HBO premiered in 1999, is the story of New Jersey Don, Tony Soprano. But rather than only dramatizing crime capers, violence and sex -- which the show provides in abundance -- The Sopranos adds Freud, Jung, Faust and the mob's Desperate Housewives well before we knew there were desperate housewives and girlfriends.
Last year, The Sopranos guru David Chase told the media that the final season of the Emmy-winning show will concentrate on money and materialism. He said that "consumerism" was all the characters in the mob drama cared about.
The final season's first 12 episodes begins Sunday through June and the final eight will begin airing in January 2007. So far, that is, since the airing of one of the most successful US cable TV series in history has been somewhat erratic with the real-life problems of the cast, including one actor arrested for killing a cop in New York and one arrested on drug charges.
While the plot-lines are cloaked in secrecy the CIA would envy, some leaks indicate major characters will get their comeuppance. One leak reveals that Tony's wife, Carmella, will get a taste of bloodletting when she kills someone who angers her.
Last season viewers got a sense that Tony Soprano was so deeply involved in his own personal crises that he was oblivious to what was going on with his motley crew of gangsters, ex-girlfriends and his own nephew. This season look for Tony to lower his guard so much that the FBI agents, who've been dogging him and his gang for years, will make inroads on their investigation.
Basically, this last season of The Sopranos will either go down as the best and most memorable, or it can go the route of "that's it???"
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