The Sopranos (1999)
The Sopranos is a 1999 crime series created by David Chase and Terence Winter. It stars James Gandolfini, Edie Falco and Jamie-Lynn Sigler.
Tony Soprano runs a crew in North Jersey and cannot sleep. Panic attacks send him, quietly and against every rule of his world, into a psychiatrist's office, where Dr. Jennifer Melfi starts pulling at threads he would rather leave alone. At home there is a wife, two teenagers, and a mother who is her own kind of trouble; at work there is money, muscle, and men who would kill him for looking weak. David Chase's series treats a mob boss as a middle-aged suburban dad in crisis, funny and brutal in the same breath.
Quick answers
What is The Sopranos about?
Tony Soprano runs a crew in North Jersey and cannot sleep. Panic attacks send him, quietly and against every rule of his world, into a psychiatrist's office, where Dr. Jennifer Melfi starts pulling at threads he would rather leave alone. At home there is a wife, two teenagers, and a mother who is her own kind of trouble; at work there is money, muscle, and men who would kill him for looking weak. David Chase's series treats a mob boss as a middle-aged suburban dad in crisis, funny and brutal in the same breath.
When was The Sopranos released?
The Sopranos was released on 10 January 1999.
How many episodes does The Sopranos have?
The Sopranos has 86 episodes across 6 seasons.
Who made The Sopranos?
The Sopranos was created by David Chase, Terence Winter and Mitchell Burgess.
Where can I watch The Sopranos?
The Sopranos is available on HBO (Via Hulu), HBO Max, MAX (Via Amazon Prime), YouTube TV, Google Play and Amazon.
Where to watch The Sopranos
Stream: HBO (Via Hulu), HBO Max, MAX (Via Amazon Prime), YouTube TV
Rent: Google Play
Buy: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home, Google Play
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Cast
- James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
- Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
- Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano
- Robert Iler as A.J. Soprano
- Lorraine Bracco as Jennifer Melfi
- Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
- Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
- Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
- Dominic Chianese as Corrado 'Junior' Soprano
- Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano
- Steve Schirripa as Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri
- Drea de Matteo as Adriana La Cerva
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A few thoughts on The Sopranos
For the Newark backstory and the making of the men Tony grew up under, the film The Many Saints of Newark fills in the generation before. On the page, the crime novel Gold Coast circles a mob widow and the men watching her money, wry and cold in a way this show would recognize.
Classic mob movies about family and power
The Sopranos grew out of the gangster films Tony quotes by heart, so these are both its source and its company. Mafia stories where the crew is also a family, from the picture that set the template to the prequel about Tony's own Newark and the dons who ran real crews.
Crime stories with a domestic and comic edge
The Sopranos is as much about therapy, marriage, and a difficult mother as it is about murder. These crime pictures share that split, gangsters and hustlers wrestling with family, guilt, and the shrink's couch as often as the job itself.
Family empires where loyalty and power collide
The Sopranos treats a crime outfit as a dynasty, full of succession fights, loyalty tests, and blood ties that run the business. These follow other families whose grip on power is the whole plot, across prestige TV and one Long Island novel of old money meeting the mob.