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Saturday, September 15, 2007 12:00 AM

The best TV show of all time

"The Sopranos" vs."The Wire": Two Salon critics duke it out over which series is the greatest ever.
By Rebecca Traister and Laura Miller

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  • Saturday, September 15, 2007 10:55 AM

    I don't get it.

    I guess I'll never "get it" with regard to The Sopranos.

    I can't separate the screen characters from the real-life version of mobsters who are sadists, murderers, extortionists, pimps, drug sellers, loan sharks -- you name it. Couple of weeks ago those who ordered the baseball bat deaths of two of their own as depicted in the film "Casino" were convicted of those and other brutal murders.

    I don't know how one "humanizes" these monsters.

    I spent my JHS and HS days in Newark, NJ, aware that some people around us were very bad people and made kingly incomes while my dad made maybe $100 per week doing honest work.

    Maybe that's part of why I don't get it. These bastards can burn in hell.

    —Anonymous

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