This single line of dialogue sums up so much about turn-of-the-millennium television. After the 1970s and ’80s saw constant innovation in what television could accomplish, the late ’90s plateaued with ...

What made The Sopranos different from other mob stories? Several answers qualify, but you can start right at the beginning. In the pilot’s opening scene, viewers see mob boss Tony Soprano (James ...

It’s easy to look back on a pivotal episode of a super successful series and say how revolutionary it was at the time. Rewatching the pilot of The Wire or Breaking Bad is always an exciting ...

Rewatching the pilot two decades later, what remains remarkable is just how fully realized the show was from the jump, and just how much the pilot informed everything that came after. Even the best ...

From the very first therapy session, The Sopranos makes something clear: Tony Soprano's most dangerous relationship isn't with a rival mob boss or the FBI. It's with his therapist, Dr. Jennifer Melfi.

Go back to the pilot of The Sopranos and you’ll find a few things to chew on. For starters, why does the hostess at Vesuvio seem like any young woman and not Adriana La Cerva (Drea de Matteo)? That ...

Twenty-five years ago, in 1999, David Chase created one of the most iconic television series in history with The Sopranos. Not only did it make him rich and famous, but it turned its star, James ...