The Sopranos- The Complete Series -season 1-2-3... =link= Review

– Tony becomes the de facto boss while dealing with the arrival of his sister Janice and the return of former associate Richie Aprile.

Season one functions as a thesis statement. It establishes the two parallel universes that Tony will try—and fail—to reconcile: the violent world of the DiMeo crime family and the mundane, suffocating world of his McMansion in North Caldwell. The season introduces the core ensemble: the cunning Uncle Junior (Dominic Chianese), the volatile Livia (Nancy Marchand), the oafish but loyal Paulie Walnuts (Tony Sirico), the neurotic Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli), and the dangerously intelligent Carmela (Edie Falco). The Sopranos- The Complete Series -Season 1-2-3...

The marriage dissolves. Carmela knows about the "goomars" (mistresses), but she has ignored it for decades. In season four, she stops ignoring it. The episode "Whitecaps" features a twenty-minute fight between Tony and Carmela that rivals Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Gandolfini and Edie Falco earned every Emmy. Meanwhile, Ralphie kills a horse named Pie-O-My for insurance money, and Tony retaliates by beating Ralph to death in his kitchen. No music. No heroics. Just a fat man with his fists. – Tony becomes the de facto boss while