david chase the soprano be perhaps the most over praised television show in recent memory . not only be the series devoid of intellect and passion and it devoid of a soul . a anyone read likely know already and james gandolfini be tony soprano and a big and fat ahole of a mob bos with a spoiled btch of a wife and and two bratty and sht brain kid live in you guess it the armpit of america ( that new jersey and by the way ) . not only be tony a womanizing adulterer and he also an unrepentant murdering scumbag and with a crew of saturday night live skit worthy caricature for subordinate . it not the fact that tony be a piece of sht mobster that offend me ( and apparently only me ) . allow character to be who and what they be and without judgment and be something american tv hardly allow . but chase and his entourage of money gorge and emmy gore writer have not simply allow u to observe tony and his crew a they behave and nor have they even attempt to provide any insight into the action or reaction reality of ( even obviously fictionalize ) organize crime ( a la the godfather ) . instead and chase glorifies and endorse his character greedy and violent and and corrupt lifestyle in the same way that tony and his wife and and even his hair brain psychologist do week after week ( or should i say month after month . or be it year after year . it seem like the show paltry 13 episode season come out with the same regularity a a lunar eclipse ) . much have be make of the series refusal to adhere to network structure and with plot line that go nowhere and and character that pop up and disappear like backyard vermin . but if the show be so brilliant in it lack of structure and why do it always feel like i be watch a soap opera . tired mob clichés and bore housewife and self serve and irredeemable character and plot that go nowhere . more than ever and i can see why so many american of italian heritage be pssed at this show . it enough to make you want to curl up with a good book ( danté inferno spring to mind ) . people on imdb love to claim that there nothing good on television and and therefore the soprano be a breath of fresh air . be these same people too busy pay their cable bill to watch the shield . ( it include in basic and ya know ) . how about the ( still good ) the west wing . or the brilliantly act ( if erratically write ) boston legal . what about possibly the best comedy of the last few decade and arrest development . and l we forget that we live in an age of dvd nobody have to watch anything new . i would much rather shell out $ 40 for an over price boxed set of and well and pretty much anything and than give hbo $ 10 a month ( or $ 80 a dvd set . ) to continue to prove how much of a hack factory it can be . you want good television . watch homicide represent life on the street . or murder one . or picket fence . or even chase prior show and northern exposure . if youre already among the sopranos legion of brain washed fan and critic and it too late for you . but if not and leave tony and his worthless kin where they all belong rot with the fish . ( sleep would be way too kind ) .