today's topic: the greatest television show of all time.


you really can't deny it. if you're trying, it's for one of three reasons -- number one, you don't recognize the picture, so you really don't know what i'm talking about. number two, you haven't seen the show, so you really don't know what i'm talking about. number three, you are a close-minded fool.
i take back number three. i'm sorry.
but to be serious, the show's brilliance is unmatched. i dare you to find a show that has writing as engaging. i double dare you to find characters more interesting. and i triple dare you to find acting better than edie falco's at the end of the fourth season.
i would like to go more in-depth into what happens in the course of the five seasons to elaborate the genius of the show, but there are people who read this who will give me a fate worse than _______'s on said show if i ruin it for them.
i was at barnes & noble today, and i found a giant book of the history of the show, and it rekindled my love for it all over again. let me tell you, those characters have been through a lot. but, as previously expressed, let me also say that those characters are some of the most intricate and interesting characters ever devised. silvio dante, paulie walnuts, christopher moltesanti, furio, carmella, adrianna, tony... those are the good ones. even the characters that you hate (olivia, janice, ritchie, johnny sack, carmine, ralph cifaretto, etc.) are written so well that you become emotionally attached to them, despite the fact that you loathe them with every fiber in your body. and speaking of ralph cifaretto, joe pantaliano spent a season (maybe more?) on the show, so you should watch it for that reason alone.
i'm going to add in here that nearly every single one of the main actors on the show (including pantaliano) has won an emmy for their performances. this begs the question, "why haven't you watched it?" i know that hbo is expensive, but there are other ways of viewing the show -- borrow the dvds from me, rent them from blockbuster, check out the re-runs if you are lucky enough to get hbo... just get it done.
while it is in syndication, i spend the entire week in speculation. "who's going to die next?" "how long will she live?" "what's he going to do?" "omg, why did he do that?" it grabs you, kids, and it doesn't let you go.
the poetic justice here is that beginning in september, the show will begin its sixth and final season. will tony finally get what's coming to him, or will he get away with everything? and what about ______ ____? what's going to happen with him? and ________'s relationship with ____? oh man, if they don't reconcile... and good ol' _____ got shipped off to _____ because of that thing with ________, but i know we couldn't have seen the last of him. will ____ and ______ finally work out their differences? will _______ finally freaking die? will ___________ get around to mourning the death of his _______, or will he continue to be a raging asshole about it? and will the ____ realize that the ____ ____ is just a front?
if my house next year does not come with hbo so i can conclude the show with my characters, i will be quite upset. almost as upset as i was this afternoon when i saw a grown man dressed as an oompa-loompa at the mall. but that's another story.