Which is the GOAT: Sopranos, The Wire or Breaking Bad?

[SouBeachTalents]

Even if you don't think one of these is the GOAT, at least vote for the one you think is the best. And if not, which show do you have as GOAT?

And for those who have watched all 3, give me what you think was the best

Character
Episode
Season

[1987_Lakers]

I feel The Sopranos & Breaking Bad will be remembered more as the years go by, Sopranos was revolutionary, Breaking Bad saw a character transform from a good guy to an evil bastard.

Character - Tony Soprano
Episode - Pine Barrens (The Sopranos) ... Crawl Space (BB)
Season - Season 4 of Breaking Bad

The Sopranos is more re-watchable for its funny moments, Breaking Bad I feel never had a bad season, and had more "WTF moments".

[1987_Lakers]

Fun fact, David Chase was going to have Tony's mom testify against Tony in court in season 3 of The Sopranos, but the actress who played her died after filming season 2.

[SATAN]

Sopranos but I could see why anyone would choose the other options. Favorite character was obviously Tony but Christopher, Paulie & Silvio were also very entertaining.

No particular episode. Ones that come to mind are the painting, the vacation where Tony and Bobby get into a drunken fight, Tony getting chased through the snow ect ect. There are too many.

No particular season as they all contribute to a great story line.

[LAmbruh]

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[999Guy]

Breaking Bad was perfect. It got better with every season and perfectly wrapped up. Went 5 and a half strong seasons.

The Wire didn’t reach the peaks of Breaking Bad.

The Sopranos season 1 was absolutely perfect on every level. It blended Mob Realism and the human psychology perfectly. Later seasons got the mob part really wrong and goofy. The psychology was probably always there. But season 1 was the best and it makes sense. The Sopranos was supposed to be a movie. All the great writing got condensed into the beginning and faded.

Maybe the best drama season ever. But it trailed off pretty hard with time IMO.

Breaking Bad was just higher quality. No lulls, no stupidity.

All genius shows but Breaking Bad is easily the most unique and entertaining on first watch.

Only GoT could put you through emotions like BB.

[999Guy]

I feel The Sopranos & Breaking Bad will be remembered more as the years go by, Sopranos was revolutionary, Breaking Bad saw a character transform from a good guy to an evil bastard.

Character - Tony Soprano
Episode - Pine Barrens (The Sopranos) ... Crawl Space (BB)
Season - Season 4 of Breaking Bad

The Sopranos is more re-watchable for its funny moments, Breaking Bad I feel never had a bad season, and had more "WTF moments".Yup that’s the Sopranos biggest strength. It has a rated R sitcom feel to where you just stop in and check on life in this crazy little world.

Super re-watchable.

But BrBa did it’s job amazingly. And it had a harder job. Thrillers are really rarely great, let alone amazing, and let alone amazing on television. It’s a groundbreaking show IMO just a notch above the rest.

[Patrick Chewing]

Crazy how much I disliked the Sopranos and The Wire. So by default, it goes to Breaking Bad (which I haven't even seen yet).

[Patrick Chewing]

True Detective sn 1>>>

Definitely.

[highwhey]

Crazy how much I disliked the Sopranos and The Wire. So by default, it goes to Breaking Bad (which I haven't even seen yet).

explains A LOT

[CeltsGarlic]

Ive seen probably every youtube sopranos clip and you know there is like thousands of em and now Ive finally decided to watch the show. Finishing season 3 tonight got 2 ep left. Its kinda an strange experience where you seen 80% of the scenes just in random order and Im just kinda finishing the full picture lol. Im never making a varsity tv show watcher

[CelticBaller]

Don’t stop

[fsvr54]

The Wire then the Sopranos.

Breaking Bad was garbage to me

[glidedrxlr22]

Sopranos

Pine Barrens gets another vote here for best episode

[highwhey]

Sopranos

Pine Barrens gets another vote here for best episode

Tony: “the guy you’re looking for is some kind of ex commando, killed 16 Chechen rebels single handed”

paulie: GTFOH

tony: yea nice huh.. he was with the interior ministry

paulie to chris: you’re not gona believe this.. he killed 16 Czechoslovakians. The guy was an interior decorator

Chris: his house looked like shyt

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[Im Still Ballin]

Even if you don't think one of these is the GOAT, at least vote for the one you think is the best. And if not, which show do you have as GOAT?

And for those who have watched all 3, give me what you think was the best

Character
Episode
Season

Sopranos:

Character - Tony Soprano
Episode - trying to do this off top of head... Pinebarrens episode, or maybe the one where they go to italy
Season - 1

The Wire:

Character - Omar
Episode - one of the s4 episodes
Season - 4

Breaking Bad:

Character - Walter White
Episode - Ozymandias
Season - probably s4 but barely.. they're all so damn good

[starface]

Sopranos:

Character - Tony Soprano
Episode - trying to do this off top of head... Pinebarrens episode, or maybe the one where they go to italy
Season - 1

The Wire:

Character - Omar
Episode - one of the s4 episodes
Season - 4

Breaking Bad:

Character - Walter White
Episode - Ozymandias
Season - probably s4 but barely.. they're all so damn good


Hey. We’re organizing a nude victory parade for Lebron’s 2020 championship. I expect you in attendance.

[Im Still Ballin]

The problem with The Sopranos for me is that it never really goes anywhere

Minimal character development

No suspense

Just cool characters and dialogue that gets old eventually

Every now and then it makes something of a social commentary

David Chase himself even admitted they stretched it out to make more seasons due to commercial influences


Breaking Bad was the complete opposite

Epic character development

Insane tension/suspense

They had a beginning, middle, and end. There was artistic integrity -- the vision was maintained

[bladefd]

I watched first few episodes of Sopranos but just couldn't get into it. I felt it a drag to continue watching so I never got back to it..

Breaking Bad had me from episode 1. The Wire took a few episodes but I was in after that.

[KennyPowers]

On Breaking bad my favorite was the crippled kid.



On game of thrones my favorite was the crippled kid.



Khaleesi naked is pretty cool.


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[Bawkish]

I chose The Wire as a whole, it's like reading a novel

As for season nothing beats Breaking Bad season 4

[Akeem34TheDream]

Most rewatchable show is The sopranos. It also was the smartest show between 3 of them. A lot of the stuff happened quickly and in a subtle way. Breaking Bad had the best story. The Wire was the most realistic show. And every season had different subject which I liked. Best production goes to BB imo. It probably had the biggest budget and was aired years later than the other two so thats probably why. Breaking Bad also appealed to larger audiences. And it was without a doubt the most gripping show. Its REALLY hard to rank them but I love western movies and BB had a similar theme so I lean towards it.

[Shooter]

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[bigbaz30]

Sopranos for sure

[rufuspaul]

I recently binge watched Breaking Bad and El Camino. Fantastic stuff.

[Smoke117]

Only ever watched about 20 mins of the first episode of The Wire so can't really given an opinion on it, but I liked The Sopranos more than I liked Breaking Bad. Both great shows, but The Sopranos was better.

[brownmamba00]

The wire for me. So many villians too good.

[brownmamba00]

The sopranos got boring after season 2. Too much psychological bullshit.

[BurningHammer]

The sopranos got boring after season 2. Too much psychological bullshit.

And those psychological stuff were all discarded at the end with Tony-being-psychopath-all-along at the end.

[Im Still Ballin]

The great thing about Breaking Bad is that it never stagnated. It never fell into a formulaic rut.

Sure, they cook meth, yada yada yada... But the game changes. The level they play at evolves.

The Wire only really stagnated in season 3 in some ways. Each season was a fresh new angle on the city of Baltimore.


The Sopranos stagnated hard IMO.

[brownmamba00]

And those psychological stuff were all discarded at the end with Tony-being-psychopath-all-along at the end.

True. It made zero sense.

Altho I still use paulie's blowjob jokes just to **** with people lol

[tpols]

Sopranos for sure.

[SouBeachTalents]

On Breaking bad my favorite was the crippled kid.



On game of thrones my favorite was the crippled kid.
I'm glad you found characters you could relate too

[highwhey]

I'm glad you found characters you could relate too

:roll:

[JohnnySic]

The Sopranos and Breaking Bad were both great but BB >. The Sopranos didn't have much of a story arc. The gang gets decimated at the end but that happens at the very end. Every episode was basically a stand-alone, like a sitcom. The appeal was watching to see who would get killed or beaten up each week, and usually the victims were inconsequential.

BB had an incredible story arc. The stakes just kept getting higher and higher.

Never watched The Wire.

[pauk]

Breaking Bad >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sopranos / The Wire.

Agree with JohnnySic, i think Sopranos was great but just couldnt get attached to the story in similar fashion to BB, nor the characters / main character, it felt like a good random Goodfellas wannabe with a Al Pacino/Robert De Niro/Joe Pesci wannabe... just not entirely there.... it was good tho, but i just couldnt get into enjoying it as much as that slow & detailed zero to hero process of Walter White, i couldnt freakin wait to see what happens next, every episode.

[Nanners]

First of all, "Patriot" on amazon is the GOAT show, and its currently wildly underappreciated much like the early season of Breaking Bad.

In regard to the 3 shows brought up by OP... I would say that Breaking Bad and the Wire are basically neck and neck (BB might be the better show by a hair), and both of those shows are FAR better than Sopranos.

[tomdaw]

Well, that´s an impossible decision for me. I love all of them, these are literally the most favorite shows of mine. After I watched Breaking Bad after Sopranos, I thought that it was even better show. This year I rewatched Sopranos and I felt like it was fantastic. But if I had to pick one, I´m gonna go with Sopranos, just because I like the characters much more than characters in Breaking Bad and The Wire.

[Raymone]

The Sopranos felt more like I lived it than watched it, even though I share no real commonalities with the characters in real life. No other show has done that for me, even though I also loved Breaking Bad.

Six Feet Under made feel actually depressed, so I guess that's gotta come in somewhere close. I don't think a poorly written or produced series could affect you like that.

[Raymone]

One thing I really like about The Sopranos, other than the character development and acting, was how they handled dream sequences.


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