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The Sopranos: Season 1

James Gandolfini (Actor), Lorraine Bracco (Actor), Alan Taylor (Director), Allen Coulter (Director) | Rated: NR (Not Rated) | Format: DVD
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The Sopranos, writer-producer-director David Chase's extraordinary television series, is nominally an urban gangster drama, but its true impact strikes closer to home: Like 1999's other screen touchstone, American Beauty, the HBO series chronicles a dysfunctional, suburban American family in bold relief. And for protagonist Tony Soprano, there's the added complexity posed by heading twin families, his collegial mob clan and his own, nouveau riche brood.

The series' brilliant first season is built around what Tony learns when, whipsawed between those two worlds, he finds himself plunged into depression and seeks psychotherapy--a gesture at odds with his midlevel capo's machismo, yet instantly recognizable as a modern emotional test. With analysis built into the very spine of the show's elaborate episodic structure, creator Chase and his formidable corps of directors, writers, and actors weave an unpredictable series of parallel and intersecting plot arcs that twist from tragedy to farce to social realism. While creating for a smaller screen, they enjoy a far larger canvas than a single movie would afford, and the results, like the very best episodic television, attain a richness and scope far closer to a novel than movies normally get.

Unlike Francis Coppola's operatic dramatization of Mario Puzo's Godfather epic, The Sopranos sustains a poignant, even mundane intimacy in its focus on Tony, brought to vivid life by James Gandolfini's mercurial performance. Alternately seductive, exasperated, fearful, and murderous, Gandolfini is utterly convincing even when executing brutal shifts between domestic comedy and dramatic violence. Both he and the superb team of Italian-American actors recruited as his loyal (and, sometimes, not-so-loyal) henchmen and their various "associates" make this mob as credible as the evocative Bronx and New Jersey locations where the episodes were filmed.

The first season's other life force is Livia Soprano, Tony's monstrous, meddlesome mother. As Livia, the late Nancy Marchand eclipses her long career of patrician performances to create an indelibly earthy, calculating matriarch who shakes up both families; Livia also serves as foil and rival to Tony's loyal, usually level-headed wife, Carmela (Edie Falco). Lorraine Bracco makes Tony's therapist, Dr. Melfi, a convincing confidante, by turns "professional," perceptive, and sexy; the duo's therapeutic relationship is also depicted with uncommon accuracy. Such grace notes only enrich what's not merely an aesthetic high point for commercial television, but an absorbing film masterwork that deepens with subsequent screenings. --Sam Sutherland

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With The Sopranos, writer-producer David Chase broke boldly from serial television conventions to create a richly layered, genre-bending program focusing on a modern Mafioso and both his families--the embattled criminal organization he headed, and his own dysfunctional family. For TV veteran Chase, whose career included important associations with critically lauded series, among them The Rockford Files, I'll Fly Away, and Northern Exposure, the new show's placement on HBO allowed him broader creative license, and The Sopranos took advantage of that context to create one of the boldest, most adult programs ever seen on American television. In its acclaimed first season, The Sopranos garnered more nominations for the 51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards than any other program cited during that 1998-1999 season. Creator Chase received an award for outstanding writing for a drama series, and Edie Falco, cast as mob wife Carmela Soprano, was honored as outstanding lead actress in a drama series.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Keeps me watching, Dec 13 2006
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This review is from: The Sopranos: Season 1 (DVD)
I rarely review movies but this one diserves my attention. If you are a fan of Mafia stories, you will be pulled in with the schemes and rip-offs they pull, but even if you are not a major fan of that genre, the well-written story lines that deal with the other aspects of life will be just as appealing. This is far from a one-dimensional story line, with endless twists and turns that will keep you engrossed to the end. Each episode is a mini-movie, and over the course of the season it is impossible not to be drawn in to the characters' struggles. There are no gangster cliches here, no caricatured one-dimensional characters, no stilted, predictable dialogue; everything does indeed ring true. And that is what keeps me watching the Sopranos.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The first. The Best. A must buy!!!!!, Sep 29 2003
This review is from: The Sopranos: Season 1 (DVD)
David Chase's dive into the interesting journeys of Tony Soprano is absolutely intriguing! From the first scene of Episode 1 to the last scene of Episode 13. There is non-stop action, heart pounding drama, and a flawless story line. Any fan of the mob movie genre will be absolutley blown away by this unique look into a diffrent aspect of mob life. From the complex relationship between Tony and his mother. To the Heat with Uncle Junior and the complex look at a mob boss's mind when he sits down on the couch to talk to Dr. Melfi. Take my recomendation on this one people. You'll absolutely love it!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Very Poor Transfer to dvd, Dec 23 2000
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"lord@beachin.net" (Salisbury, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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On a regular size tv I guess it looks ok but on a widescreen 64 inch it looks like crap. fuzzy, pixulation, looks like they just tried to get to much on each dvd. It is watchable but doesnt even get close to a quality dvd.
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