Sopranos: The Complete Series [Blu-ray] [Import]

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colorful contributions to Silvio, and other memorable performances and characters. Good stuff; far better than anything Chase regulars include Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr., Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano, Tony Sirico as Paulie Walnuts, grumbling that will accompany The Complete Series should serve as a reminder as to how spoiled we've all become.

Winter, director Allen Coulter, and actors Dominic Chianese (Junior), Rober Iler (AJ) and Aida Turturro (Janice) waste little time,The opening sequence is more than just the song that will forever be linked to the series; it serves as a template for what the show was about: A world slowly eating away at itself from the inside out. It wasn't just an indictment on morality and greed, consumer and corporate culture, and the franchising and branding of everything down to slightest minutia; it was a heady insight into American life enraptured with the world as it once was, and unable to reconcile itself with the world as it is now. Interview with David Chase by Peter Bogdonavich (SD, 77 minutes): This meandering discussion between Chase Directors: Timothy Van Patten , Allen Coulter , Lee Tamahori , Steve Buscemi , Mike Figgis , David Nutter

writing, autobiographical elements in the series, his research into and experience with the mafia and the historical contraction of L. Lost Scenes (Season 6B, Episode 1): Tony and Bobby play with fireworks. Janice asks where her hat is. (00:47) The 28-disc Blu-ray release of The Sopranos: The Complete Series features 6 seasons (86 episodes), 25 audio The Sopranos' not only elevated the medium, but also illustrated some of television's distinct strengths over feature films, especially when it came to exploring the lives of its characters and delivering subtlety and nuance over bombast. Moreover, it helped TV to solidify itself as a writer's paradise, a place where those crafting the stories, building the characters, and giving them voices were the creators and supreme masters of their own microcosms. Directors – though some helmed magnificent episodes – came and went throughout the season, but the showrunner always remained. The popularity of the series and recognition of the level of its craft, then, gave rise to the age of the showrunner (or, at the very least, the concept of the showrunner as auteur), making celebrities out of the grand overseers of everything from a New Jersey crime family to a philandering Madison Avenue advertising executive in the '60s to a man literally and metaphorically riddled with malignancy, determined to leave his mark in the world.running a show, the casting of James Gandolfini, the complexities of Tony and Carmela, Chase's take on actors, the avalanche Bubbling over with the kind of writing, performances, casting, cinematography, music, relevance and resonance any series And through it all, through the unforgettable and memorably ambiguous episodes like 'Pine Barrens,' or the emotionally devastating 'Long Term Parking,' 'The Sopranos' excelled in crafting moments of genuine art and genuine emotion that contrasted (or was perhaps enhanced by) the gruesome violence and other prurient details lingering around the edges of any given episode. Perhaps, though, the series is best remembered for its consistent dreamlike quality – and love of dream sequences, for that matter. The sixth and final season begins with Tony spending the better part of two episodes in a coma, living the life of another man and ultimately being welcomed to accept death. He declines.