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Sopranos, The
Season 6
SERIES: HBO, Sunday 9:00p (60 minutes)

7.9 based on 18 reviews read critic reviews how did we calculate this? based on 97 votes read user comments rate this tv show

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Starring James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Dominic Chianese, Steve Van Zandt, Tony Sirico, and Robert Iler

The extended sixth and final season of the hugely popular HBO series will air in two parts: 12 episodes beginning in March 2006, and eight more starting in January 2007.

GENRE(S):	Crime, Drama
CREATED BY:	David Chase
FIRST AIR DATE:	March 12, 2006

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

100

Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker

The Sopranos unfolds at a more absorbing and imaginative level than TV's strongest series, from ABC's Lost and Grey's Anatomy to Fox's 24 and House.

100

San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman

It's the best series on television, end of story.

100

TV Guide Matt Roush

Was it worth the wait? Was it ever!

100

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen

Maintains the quality viewers have come to expect.

100

Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert

The show is back in magnificent form, with all its humor, psychological thorniness, and bleak tragedy intact. It remains the highest peak of series TV.

100

Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy

Masterful.

100

Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond

The first four installments supplied for review have moments of artsy overindulgence, to be sure, but largely remain true to the show's roots in darkness and absurdity while carving out fresh story arcs that are as compelling as any the writers have ever crafted. It's like peering at a series of train wrecks as rendered by da Vinci.

100

The New York Times Alessandra Stanley

[It] may be the most creative and richly imagined [season] yet: it begins by going over old ground and yet something new and totally surprising happens.

100

USA Today Robert Bianco

This is The Sopranos at its best -- and that's just about as good as TV ever gets.

100

Wall Street Journal Dorothy Rabinowitz

This season's "Sopranos" is quite simply dazzling in its inventiveness, its reach, and one other aspect -- its capacity to pound audiences emotionally as the series has never before done.

100

Washington Post Tom Shales

Television's greatest drama series has only gotten greater.

100

Baltimore Sun David Zurawik

Mozart wrote finales for his operas by focusing on a theme sounded in the opening notes, then expanding and building upon it through repetition and the amplification of other voices for a glorious ending. So is David Chase, creator and executive producer of The Sopranos, writing the finale for this landmark TV series - and if this isn't art, then neither is Mozart.

91

Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn

The more leisurely pace allows for some singular moments. [17 Mar 2006, p.101]

90

Los Angeles Times Paul Brownfield

The thing about "The Sopranos" is that strands of character detail -- Carmela Soprano's fingernails, the way Tony breathes through his nose when he eats -- stay with you long after you've forgotten whose cut of a garbage route has precipitated a beef between which wiseguys.

90

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland

What begins as the usual artistic season premiere shivers and sways with unexpected jolts, one of which irrevocably changes the course and feel of the series. Everything blurs, and nothing, and no one, seems true.

90

Variety Brian Lowry

Not all "The Sopranos'" flights of fancy pan out... but it never fails to fascinate, creating a completely organic world in which it's easy to forget the art and artifice that go into realizing Chase's vision.

88

New York Daily News David Hinckley

There's enough classic "Sopranos" action -- some of it involving extreme physical violence -- to remind the average person that where the Sopranos are is not where most of us want to go. Yet at the same time, these episodes repeatedly return to the ways in which the Soprano clan, in its desperate, sometimes twisted and sometimes touching way, seeks to embrace family values.

75

Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman

This is the best the drama has been in some time.

The average user rating for this tv show is 7.9 (out of 10) based on 97 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Dave Q gave it a10:
First of all I'm not going to say how "amazing" this show is (we already know that), you would have to be extremely ignorant not to realize what this show has done for TV. The show has always tried to replicate life in its most brutal and honest from the very first scene to the very last from the perspective of Anthony Soprano. If you haven't watched the show or just casually watched a few episdoes you make think that its just about the mob (TV version of the godfather), but that couldn't be further from the truth. David Chase has created a show that is the modern day equivalent to Shakespeare and Yeats masterpieces. The show explores themes far beyond the moral problems associated with the Mafia and Standard life, the ending in particular shows this. So why not give it a chance? Make your brain happy by watching something that makes you ask the questions that has troubled our society from the dawn of time. It is simply one of the greatest TV dramas of all time, and led way to other amazing dramas such as Six Feet Under and The Wire. Its a shame that a lot of other user comments haven't given this show a second thought, because once you dig a little dipper you will be pleasantly surprised.

Jack M. gave it a10:
There are TV dramas. And then there's The Sopranos.

RM gave it a7:
A better effort from a show that pretty much exhausted itself a couple of years ago. But whereas not as mainstream, there are a handful of dramas out there I feel, like The Wire. Season 6 has an entertaining plot (an improvement on the last couple of series) and a clever ending, but there are bits which I find a bit cheesey or lame, like the kids - again. All I am trying to point out is that the Sopranoes is one of the best things TV has had (way better than Lost or 24), but if you look harder there are even better dramas out there that stand the test of time unlike the Sopranoes, so good that if you don't like them, there is something wrong with you not the show. I just think the Sops is a little over-hyped now.

Jenn P gave it a9:
Tony got whacked, or viewers could at least use their imagination. Watch the final episode again and watch for all the signs pointing to death. If you know the relationship in The Godfather between oranges and death, you will get the picture. Brilliant ending by David Chase!

Doug G. gave it a9:
People want catharsis, conclusions, and closure. Life isn't like that. Whether you believe Tony got whacked or that life went on for the Sopranos, it does not matter. To leave the decision up to us, the viewers, was a bold and interesting way to end a brilliant series. Would any other ending have generated so much passionate debate? I don't think so.

Jenn gave it a10:
This show was amazing and the finale was far from a let down. David Chase left the ending open so people could use their imaginations. People obviously do not have the skills to create an ending of their own. David Chase made it very clear that the ending was wide open to Tony getting whacked. Remember the cut scene when Bobby and Tony talk about getting shot? Reflect and discover that the ending was not a disappointment, but amazing!

Peter M. gave it a10:
The Audience has Died, No longer are we Tony Soprano when we watch, that is the loss viewers feel, Symbolism is a strong tool view it as you will, and you will be as contented as me! 10/10

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