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Carmela, whose relationship with Tony is tense due to financial worries and Tony's infidelities, develops a mutual infatuation with Furio Giunta. Furio, incapable of breaking his own moral codes and that of the Neapolitan mafia, clandestinely returns home to Italy. After Tony's former mistress calls their home, Carmela throws Tony out. Tony is approached by Johnny Sack with a proposal to murder Carmine, which Tony turns down.

March , a string of new characters are introduced, including Tony's cousin Tony Blundetto, who simultaneously along with other mafiosi, is released from prison. Tony offers Tony B. He initially begins to take courses to earn a degree in massage therapy and aspires to open up his own massage parlor. After Carmine Lupertazzi dies of a stroke, his death leaves a vacancy for boss of the Lupertazzi family, which will soon be fought over by underboss Johnny Sack and Carmine's son Carmine Lupertazzi Jr.

After Feech proves to be an insubordinate presence, Tony arranges for him to be sent back to prison by setting him up with stolen property, violating his parole. The war between Johnny Sack and Carmine Jr. Tony B. Tony informs Tony B. He catches Joey outside a bordello, shoots him, and quickly flees the scene.

Johnny believes Tony B. Still separated from Carmela, Tony is living at his parents' house. Carmela, now the sole authority figure in the home, becomes frustrated as her rules lead A. She has a brief relationship with Robert Wegler, A. Tony and Carmela reconcile; Tony promises to be more loyal and agrees to pay for a piece of real estate Carmela wishes to develop.

Finn comes in early one morning and catches Vito performing fellatio on a security guard. Vito tries to buddy up to Finn so that he does not say anything to anybody else. He even asks Finn to a Yankees game, which Finn does not attend. Finn soon quits the job out of fear. After covering up a murder that occurred at The Crazy Horse, Adriana is arrested and pressured by the FBI to wear a wire to avoid being charged as an accomplice. She confesses to Christopher that she has been informing and that the FBI would give them new identities if they would testify.

Christopher is grief-stricken and nearly kills her. He leaves the apartment, saying he needs time to think. Tony has Silvio pick up Adriana under the pretense of taking her to see Christopher, but instead drives her out to the woods and executes her. Phil, however, is furious that he did not get the opportunity to do it himself. Tony and Johnny meet at Johnny's house in a reconciliatory manner, but Johnny is arrested by Federal agents, while Tony escapes. April , uncle Junior, now senile and confused, shoots Tony at the beginning of the season.

Rendered comatose, Tony dreams he is a salesman on a business trip, where he mistakenly exchanges his briefcase and identification with a man named Kevin Finnerty.

Tony's recovery from the shooting changes his outlook, and he tries to mend his ways. However, he is faced with more problems in his business life. Once out of the hospital, Johnny Sack's daughter gets married and the Soprano family attends.

There, Tony is shown very exhausted when taking off his shoes through security. In the process, he collapses to the ground, but is not hurt.

Before the wedding, Johnny Sack is approved to leave prison for six hours to see his daughter get married, but has to pay for the metal detectors and the presence of the U.

As his daughter is about to drive away, the SUV that was escorting Johnny to the wedding blocks the car from leaving and an altercation begins in the driveway. In a moment of weakness and despair, Johnny Sack cries as he is put back into handcuffs and driven back to prison, greatly diminishing the respect his crew and Tony's crew have for him.

Vito Spatafore is outed as homosexual after running into a friend at a New York gay night club. The rumor spreads quickly, and once word gets to Meadow that everyone else knows, she tells Tony and Carmela about the incident between Finn and Vito with the security guard. Finn then has to sit in front of Tony's entire crew and tell them what happened with the guard, solidifying their thoughts on Vito's sexuality.

Once Vito is outed, he runs away from the city and hides out in a New Hampshire town where he claims to be writing a book and meets with the locals. Vito also starts a romantic relationship with a male cook at a local diner. He continues to maintain that he is not a homosexual. Tony mulls over the decision to let him work, as well as whether to let him live.

When Tony fails to act, Phil intervenes and kills Spatafore. As his mobster-in-therapy masterpiece is named the best TV of the century, its creator says he was just thrashing out his own issues with his domineering, suffocating mother.

That scene ended up falling later in the pilot. If The Sopranos was groundbreaking at its debut two decades ago, it now occupies an even rarer category: a show that has become more admired and beloved with time. The prestige TV series, which unspools like a Russian novel but engages like a telenovela, set the tone for the boom in high-quality binge-programming — funny, smart, acutely well-observed and immensely addictive — that has reinvented the form.

He was entirely unsurprised when Fox turned down the idea. The Sopranos was too indeterminate; not a straightforward mob drama but not a mob comedy, either, although it is funny. And then there was Tony himself. Because how could you like this guy? The Sopranos ended up at HBO. Surprisingly, Chase thinks it would have a tough time being commissioned today, in spite of the fact that, after six seasons and 86 episodes, it is credited with changing audience tastes. Who cares about New Jersey?

They buy something then they hate it. They hate whatever they buy. David knew that going in. That became one of my story lines," he told Vanity Fair. David Chase and The Sopranos producers worked with a technical consultant, former New York assistant district attorney Dan Castleman, to fully understand the way the real mob made their money. When Steven Schirripa got his first script and saw all the fat jokes Tony directed at Bobby, he thought he had been miscast—he was barely larger than Gandolfini.

But a couple days before filming began, he was fitted for his fat suit, which he wore for the first few seasons. The Bing, however, was no studio creation. And on the wire taps they'd collected from the weekend, that's all the real-life mobsters could talk about as well.

Terence Winter told Vanity Fair , "We would hear back that real wiseguys used to think that we had somebody on the inside. They couldn't believe how accurate the show was. According to Edie Falco, the cast staged a sort of "Occupy Vesuvio" sit-in that shut down the set.

Were you shocked to see Sil whack Adriana in season 5? So was Drea de Matteo. De Matteo told Vanity Fair that David Chase had the cast and crew film two different versions of the dramatic episode: one in which Adriana suspects something fishy and drives away after her final phone call with Tony, and one where—well, you know what happens.

According to de Matteo, this practice of filming multiple versions of the same scene to keep the cast and crew guessing along with interviewers and fans was a common occurrence. Originally, Chase wanted to use a different song during the opening credits of each episode, but the other producers convinced him otherwise.

Oblivious to the fact that his song would one day become synonymous with Jersey mobsters, Alabama 3 frontman Rob Spragg wrote the song after hearing about the murder trial of Sara Thornton, who stabbed her alcoholic husband to death after suffering years of domestic abuse at his hands. This shot was removed beginning with the first episode following the terrorist attacks on September 11, It would continue to be nominated every year it was eligible, winning again for its final season in Matthew Weiner, who shared the Emmy with David Chase and the other executive producers, would go on to win the award the next four years for Mad Men , until Homeland broke his winning streak in The famous cut-to-black —and impeccably truncated version of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'"—in The Sopranos finale is heralded as one of the most shocking and controversial cliffhangers of all time.

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