wow . i love the whole series and and be shock at comment by people who think it end badly . perhaps it waffle a bit in season 4 and 5 and while remain good than anything else on television . but 6 and particularly 6b be beautiful permutation on the theme develop in the more muscular first three season . 6b start with such a sombre mood and janice always keen insight into the family angst that doom fill line about know tony penchant for sit and star . anyone who miss the implication of that for the rest of the series do not know tony . melfi discomfort over the psychiatric study and it reference to the sociopath self delude sentimentality for pet and animal go back to the first episode of the series and say and with tony panic attack over the duck leave his pool and resonate with phil wave bye bye line to his grandchild before the coup de grace of the final episode ( not to get into chase dark humour ) . i could go on and on and but i will just add that i think the final show start with the opening strain of vanilla fudge to supply the ironic foreshadow ( you keep me hangin on ) to the terminal moment where tony fade back into complacency with his family in tow or blast apart like aj suv or phil head be and utterly and utterly perfect . the best tv ever . pretty good in a die medium pathologically supply the jack off fantasy aj derides ( and then into which he promptly subside ) . a tip of the pork pie to mr. chase .