Anyone rewatch Sopranos?

[90sgoat]

Watched first time when I was 14, then mid 20s, then now at Lebron age.

Great show, zinger and great stuff every episode.

Gloria Trillo still the hottest goomah

[diamenz]

Watched first time when I was 14, then mid 20s, then now at Lebron age.

Great show, zinger and great stuff every episode.

Gloria Trillo still the hottest goomah

loved the series but don't feel like it has the same kind of rewatchability as bb. plus i've grown tired of the mob shit as i've gotten older.

[ShawkFactory]

loved the series but don't feel like it has the same kind of rewatchability as bb. plus i've grown tired of the mob shit as i've gotten older.

Disagreed. BB is well shot and acted and amazingly suspenseful but once you’ve seen it you kind of just have seen it. I didn’t find the second watch better than the first.

Sopranos has more nuanced storytelling and characters and I got more out of the rewatch personally.

[highwhey]

loved the series but don't feel like it has the same kind of rewatchability as bb. plus i've grown tired of the mob shit as i've gotten older.

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[diamenz]

alright assholes. walt or tony? and cranston or gandolfini?

i give walt the edge due to the show's masterful regression of walt devolving into heisenburg; and not to shit on gandolfini but i'd take cranston on the acting front as well. i guess i'm just bb biased.

[diamenz]

oh and vince gilligan > david chase. :oldlol:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0KgYo96BpM&pp=ygUYc3RheSBvdXQgb2YgbXkgdGVycml0b3J5

[Off the Court]

Sopranos was ground breaking because it was sort of the first of it's kind. A TV series following East Coast mob family in what many interpreted to be a realistic way of how mob families actually function. It was giving the world a glimpse of what that is like.

Now that the awe of that is gone? Now that there are many other shows and movies in a similar vein? Yeah, it isn't as rewatchable.

It's kind of like the movie Boyz in Hood, which gave the world a glimpse into ghetto life. The awe of that captured the country. But now that we get it and there are 100 other ghetto gangsta flicks? The motivation to rewatch is gone.

[90sgoat]

Nah, I mean Sopranos is also a midlife crisis series, which I obviously didn't catch up on the first and second time because I was young, but now it's very relateable with Tony and the rest of the middle aged characters in the show.

[diamenz]

Nah, I mean Sopranos is also a midlife crisis series, which I obviously didn't catch up on the first and second time because I was young, but now it's very relateable with Tony and the rest of the middle aged characters in the show.

in that case i'll have to rewatch it sometime. it's been so long.

[Wardell Curry]

They're both genius level in their own respective ways.

Both have their strengths and weaknesses.

The Sopranos has a lot more depth. Breaking Bad is more obvious and in your face about what's happening at all times.

The Sopranos also probably has too much garbage filler in the middle whereas BB has less garbage filler.

Which of those is better? I guess that depends on your mood.

How I rank them depends on the day or year that you ask me but they are #1 and #2 for me personally out of shows I've watched.

Cranston and Gandolfini were both absolutely brilliant.

[Wardell Curry]

Also the show "Dark" might just be more well crafted than either one, though obviously not in the same type of storytelling for multiple reasons. Extremely difficult to follow with first viewing and easy to miss stuff. Easily the most intricate tv show of all time in my opinion. Maybe in the history of any type of video, really.

[90sgoat]

Breaking Bad was great and I will rewatch it soon, but it was less bingeable, because the characters weren't as deep as in Sopranos.

Sopranos also has some bad acting here and there, but mostly in the first two seasons.

[tpols]

Sopranos was ground breaking because it was sort of the first of it's kind. A TV series following East Coast mob family in what many interpreted to be a realistic way of how mob families actually function. It was giving the world a glimpse of what that is like.

Now that the awe of that is gone? Now that there are many other shows and movies in a similar vein? Yeah, it isn't as rewatchable.

It's kind of like the movie Boyz in Hood, which gave the world a glimpse into ghetto life. The awe of that captured the country. But now that we get it and there are 100 other ghetto gangsta flicks? The motivation to rewatch is gone.

There's really no show like it though. What TV series is like the sopranos? It's got some of the best rewatchability of any show imo because of its dark comedy. It's not as suspense based as other shows where if you know the twist it kills the ability to rewatch with satisfaction.

[warriorfan]

I rewatched quite a bit of it not too long ago. I forgot how funny it is. The show is more comedy than drama. Tony’s Mom is the best character.

Junior also busts out “Have you heard of the Chinese godfather? He makes you an offer you can’t understand.”

lmao

[diamenz]

I rewatched quite a bit of it not too long ago. I forgot how funny it is. The show is more comedy than drama. Tony’s Mom is the best character.

Junior also busts out “Have you heard of the Chinese godfather? He makes you an offer you can’t understand.”

lmao


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1OtWdYXTAQ&pp=ygUQdG9ueSBib2JieSBkaWxkbw%3D%3D

[SouBeachTalents]

The Sopranos and Breaking Bad are the two best shows I've ever seen, and Gandolfini & Cranston give the two best performances I've seen in any medium. I would give the Sopranos the edge as the better show for a couple reasons.

One, it's a far deeper show that really delves into the human psyche. From the therapy scenes, dream sequences, flashbacks, it explores these characters in a way Breaking Bad frankly just doesn't even try.

Second, I feel like Breaking Bad relies on coincidences and convenient timing a little too often for my liking, and it definitely requires some suspension of belief at times.

In terms of rewatchability, I feel like the Sopranos has amazing rewatchability, while Breaking Bad's is merely ok, it relies too much on suspense and cliff hangers to truly hang with the Sopranos in that regard.

My unpopular opinion, I feel like both shows finales were terrible for the shows usual standards. The Soprano's is a genuinely bad episode, but I admit I think the final scene is brilliant. While Breaking Bad's involves so many ludicrously unbelievable scenes I can't take the episode seriously.

[highwhey]

sucession, s1 of true detective and severance are up there for me, all 5 are in the same upper echelon. oh and the wire. i would take the wire over any if i had to choose. the writing for the wire>>>>any other show. so many fcking great characters, the arcs, plot, etc. just top notch.

[Im Still Ballin]

My problem with The Sopranos is that it doesn't really go anywhere. I was waiting for the house of cards to come crumbling down but it never did. Additionally, it seemed like they repeated the same seasonal plots once, twice, or thrice. Richie Aprile, Ralph Cifaretto, Tony Blundetto; these all felt like similar characters and arcs to me.

You don't get that with Breaking Bad. Wicked character development and transformation. Epic rise and fall. The payoff is there.

But they're trying to be different things at the end of the day. The Sopranos goes for realism; Breaking Bad goes for theatricality.

[BurningHammer]

My problem with The Sopranos is that it doesn't really go anywhere. I was waiting for the house of cards to come crumbling down but it never did. Additionally, it seemed like they repeated the same seasonal plots once, twice, or thrice. Richie Aprile, Ralph Cifaretto, Tony Blundetto; these all felt like similar characters and arcs to me.

You don't get that with Breaking Bad. Wicked character development and transformation. Epic rise and fall. The payoff is there.

But they're trying to be different things at the end of the day. The Sopranos goes for realism; Breaking Bad goes for theatricality.

They do the main focus of The Sopranos, Tony, well though. The show visibly gets darker each seasons so does Tony's character progress getting worse.

[highwhey]

My problem with The Sopranos is that it doesn't really go anywhere. I was waiting for the house of cards to come crumbling down but it never did. Additionally, it seemed like they repeated the same seasonal plots once, twice, or thrice. Richie Aprile, Ralph Cifaretto, Tony Blundetto; these all felt like similar characters and arcs to me.

You don't get that with Breaking Bad. Wicked character development and transformation. Epic rise and fall. The payoff is there.

But they're trying to be different things at the end of the day. The Sopranos goes for realism; Breaking Bad goes for theatricality.

the episodes are self contained for the most part, and the first episode sets the premise of the show. tony got into the game late-stage. he often reminisces of the "good ol' days". the therapy makes him worse bc he exploits dr MILF into giving him indirect advice to handle his mafia business. the fbi is seen as a mild threat, most of their plants/snitches get taken out before giving anything of meaning to build a case against tony. if anything, the closest he was to an arrest was while visiting johnny sack. then there's that episode where the main FBI agent visits tony outside of the deli and explains to him they've shifted resources/focus to terrorism and have put the mob into the back burner.

[90sgoat]

I rewatched quite a bit of it not too long ago. I forgot how funny it is. The show is more comedy than drama. Tony’s Mom is the best character.

Junior also busts out “Have you heard of the Chinese godfather? He makes you an offer you can’t understand.”

lmao

Junior is a stand up comedian, so many zingers.