He swallows a dose of Prozac (the episode title is Down Neck) and his mind drifts back to childhood, as we hear the psychedelic echoes of Jefferson Airplane: ‘One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small, and the ones that Mother gives you, don't do anything at all.’ Tony’s struggling to control his son’s behaviour, meanwhile his own mood is all over the place. Season 1, Episode 7 – Jefferson Airplane ‘White Rabbit’ Here are just seven of our favourite scenes (and we’ve not even included Van Morrison, The Police or Frank Sinatra…). Personally selected by showrunner David Chase (with some input from colleagues including Steven Van Zandt of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, who played Silvio Dante) the interplay between the soundtrack and the events on screen is magical. From its thrilling season openings to its mesmerising end credit sequences, the music of The Sopranos reflected the personal tastes of its New Jersey baby boomer subjects, the characters’ inner lives and the cultural landscape of contemporary America. Telling the story of the Soprano family’s triumphs, losses, disputes, romances, grievances and mid-life crises, it’s equal parts crime drama, soap opera, psychological thriller and dark comedy – a tale of the end of the 20th century and the arrival of the 21st, and the breakdown of institutions: be it the family, the church, the state or the mafia.Īlongside its impeccable script, gripping acting and transcendent themes, it was The Sopranos’ effortlessly brilliant use of music that really brought the series’ emotional heft home.
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Setting the template for the reams of so-called prestige TV that followed it, The Sopranos has been endlessly celebrated for its unforgettable cast, masterful dialogue, astute political and cultural commentary, absorbing storytelling, nuanced morality and attention to detail (the FBI even recorded real-life mobsters chatting about the show and whether the writers had an inside man). Can it live up to the nearly mythical status the six-season saga has in our heads? Will James Gandolfini’s son Michael, playing a young Tony, do justice to the character and all his contradictions?
The long-awaited arrival of The Sopranos’ prequel film, The Many Saints of Newark, has got fans of the mob epic excited, but anxious too.
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