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Even granting the fluid nature of the television medium, The Sopranos still comes off as dated material. Nothing new here except profanity, nudity and graphic violence on TV.
Oh wow, smart assed middle class kids defying their self absorbed parents! Hoods killing each other and cheating on their wives! Federal agents on the trail of the bad guys! Where else could we possibly find drama like that?
And...
Didn't the real Al Capone go to a therapist back in the day?
Didn't Jimmy Cagney's character in White Heat have mother issues?
Didn't Crime Story already till the grey areas between good and evil? (And is it me, or didn't Tony Dennison's portrayal of Ray Luca kick Tony Soprano's ass?)
Didn't Twin Peaks already cut a new slice through the American family unit?
Christ, Rockford Files did more to educate me to the ways of the world than The Sopranos...and Rockford Files as a mainstream network program from 30 years ago!
The bottom line, for me, is that reruns of The Sopranos's are unwatchable. Once the story has been played out, the hollow core of the show is revealed.
