Monday, September 6, 2010

Watch The Popular Show Sopranos

By Paige Velazquez

Let's say you weren't interested in this show when it first aired... Well, now's the time to give it a chance. Better late than never, right? Sopranos is definitely one of the top tv and movie downloads if you want to catch up on what's been hot for the last ten or so years.

The show isn't just about gangsters, it's about human beings who happen to be gangsters. It's about family, and it's about the fact that life is very difficult, confusing and unpredictable. The title refers both to the Soprano crime family, and to Tony Soprano's immediate family: His wife, his son, and his daughter.

Unlike most gangster stories, it's not really about who's gonna get whacked or not, it's about the fact that the people killing and being killed are real human beings. More importantly, it's about life in general, and the things that happen to Tony throughout these six seasons have, in some shape or other, happened to all of us at one point in time.

As each season comes, some characters become more unstable and have more and more responsibilities and fears with each new episode. The show is really about the uncertainty and fear in every day life.

You've heard about the ending. If you haven't, we'll try not to spoil it, but the whole idea of arguing about what it means is sort of behind the point. Life is full of worries and fears and problems, but it just keeps going, there's no finish line, you just try to do the best you can from day to day.

The Sopranos made some incredible innovations in television. After the reality TV boom, people didn't want the canned, predictable stuff of fictional TV anymore. David Chase came up with a show that mixed the storytelling of fictional TV with the unpredictability and realism of reality TV. This set the trend for LOST, House M. D. And The Shield, blending the best of both schools of television and creating a whole new style of storytelling.

As you watch each episode, remember that, just as in life, the show is full of unanswered questions. Things are never easy to figure out and you never have the whole picture. The show is confusing because life is confusing. Just appreciate it for the characters and the comment it makes on life.

If the show has a moral to the story, it's simply that: Life is hard to figure out. You may not be a mafia Don, but you'll feel like you're right there with Tony Soprano through his struggles, because it's a very universal thing. Let the mafia serve as a metaphor for your new management position, or your attempts to keep your own family together, and you'll find some comfort in Tony's problems simply because, in the end, we really all go through this stuff, no matter who you are. Life is tricky, and we'll never figure it all out.

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