Have decided to stop watching the Sopranos after six episodes, which was enough to show me that Tony Soprano ( and Uncle Junior and the mad henchmen and the bad henchmen) were just evil violent fucks, end of story. How can there be any story once you have that laid out in front of you? Yes there is some minor interest in how his children will take to the idea that he is Mafia, some interest in whether he will develop any self knowledge whatsoever in his therapy, some interest in the therapist herself, but it's not that much. Essentially the plots are going to be rehashes of every gangster film you've ever seen.
On a personal level it makes me feel uncomfortable, as much screen violence does, but there's no existential shield here - you're not watching the crime,(as you do necessarily for the plot - that's the excuse in the most violent and nasty of crime / thriller plots, that the nastiness will in the end be redeemed or punished) , so that the good guys can win, you're just watching the plot. It's not more violent than say Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad, it just focuses one big fat lump of self satisfied greedy bad , with nor redeeming features (he loves his children you say - c'mon who gives a fuck who he loves. He's just one of the figures that used to haunt me in my nightmares, until I learnt to be conscious that I was fighting dream villains and began to beat the shit out of them in return until I woke up.
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