From left to right: Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante, James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano and Tony Sirico as Paulie Walnuts star in HBO’s hit television series, “The Sopranos” .
Unfortunately, the movie is being held back until 2021 due to the pandemic, so we’ll have to watch the original series again to get our fix. But that’s not a bad proposition right now, especially if you have an extra 86 hours inside the house.is an especially rewarding show. Besides being brilliant satire and tantalizing melodrama,personal, financial, and ethical dilemmasliving under capitalism.
In a sense, mafia films have always provided a critique of capitalism, beginning with the Depression-era classics, when the cruelties and dysfunctions of the system were obvious. During the economic crises of the 1970s, depicted the American Dream and criminal enterprise as essentially one and the same. It’s a rationale that Tony Soprano has internalized, as is clear from the way he defends his line of work to his therapist, Dr. Melfi: “The Carnegies and the Rockefellers . . . the J.P.
one of a few shows that stand the test of time and belong in the pantheon of great television series.