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50% Italian American and 50% Sicilian American and 100% dislike the Sopranos
What didn't you like about it?
Ok let me just condense these down real quick, and by the way, happy for everyone who enjoys this show, good on you. Just thought I would drop my two centos into the discussion:
1) If you're gonna use stereotypes, how are they aging? Are they clownish at this point? I think these are.
2) I'm not opposed to having non-Italian American's play them or vice versa (nod to you John Turturro), but to cast Iler and Sigler as little Italian kids made zero sense to me when there's tons of other actors their age.
3) The pacing was slow and not in a good way. David Chase is not David Lynch and couldn't pull it off (though I think he was trying to imitate Lynch in season 6 with Tony's identity). This did not need to be a 6 season show. Lots of filler. I'm sure HBO wanted even more seasons but they should have cut it down (And then a prequel comes out? Did you care about that?)
4)Most of the show was quite predictable. You really didn't see Ade coming? Or Christopher? Or a whole bunch of them? Very few genuine surprises in the show
5) The finale is just no good. The "suspense" leading up to it is tedious (more DePalma than Hitch), and the way you can tell that David Chase wrote a bad ending is that he's since come out and just said, "yeah, Tony died in the diner." So it wasn't like a good "non-ending" like No Country for Old Men, it was that he just didn't write the ending and told everybody later what happened.
6) The relationship with Tony and Melfie is unintentionally hilarious. I couldn't buy that she would stay through all that. I get a lot of fans call that "brilliant"
7) Phil was an anticlimactic bad guy. Again, it just seems like lazy writing.
Those are seven quickies that come to mind. I don't mean to ruin your childhood. Just one man's opinion.
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