Is there any drama series as good as Sopranos?

Is there any drama series as good as Sopranos?

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Mad Men

The Leftovers

Tried Mad Men and it was boring dogshit.

Then you should go kill yourself freind.

No. The Wire is a nice 2nd place, though. People saying "Mad Men" or "Breaking Bad" or whatever are brainlets who aren't capable of being objective.

The Wire

I miss watching soprano. I used to make kraft mac and cheese but with ketchup. I'd pretend to be eating at the table with Tony and carm

Short answer, no. Long answer: The Wire in second place, Breaking Bad as a pleb tier alternative

Agree

sopranos is a soap opera

I haven't seen anything quite as good as The Sopranos. I wish I could say otherwise, but nothing has filled the void. :(

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The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, Mad Men are all good in their own right but nothing compares to Sopranos desu

>tfw you watch sopranos with a bunch of dudes every week
You know who you are

sounds gay desu

This comes close

I'm on episode 10 of the first season now and so far it's good but not great. I have to turn on subtitles to understand half the cast and his mother is annoying as fuck, I haven't hated a character this much since Skylar or Lori Grimes. Plus the show goes out of it's way to portray Tony as the good guy. I get we're supposed to be rooting for him as the main character, but so far everyone he's hurt has had it coming. They almost did it with the Coach, but then nope, turns out he's a pedo.

Keep watching. It gets even better.

>that fucking second dogshit season

in contrast, the second season is the only one that mattered.

Twin Peaks
Deadwood
Mad Men

Those are decent runner's up.

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Six Feet Under

>his mother is annoying as fuck
wait until you meet janice

>Plus the show goes out of it's way to portray Tony as the good guy
keep watching

go watch the big bang theory you fucking idiot

>tfw you will never watch Sopranos for the first time again

Fuck, legit jelly right now. Had to turn on subs too when I watched it for the first time, but you'll get used to it.

based

Sopranos is the only good tv series of any kind. Period

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I couldn't get into this show op. I stopped during the first season. I noticed they had actors from Goodfellas, which was why I kept watching, but I just couldn't stay watching.

YOU'RE A FAAAAAAAG

Deadwood is number 2. It's better than The Wire (aka Beat the Viewer Over the Head with the Theme All Season)

I just started this, 2 eps in. Liking it so far but I am getting tired of the guys in the office

how pleb could you be, that's the best part.

>wait until you meet janice
I just started watching this show last week and I'm on season 5. I love how a lot of characters are insanely annoying yet they make you want to watch more instead of groaning every time they come onscreen. Really well done.

No, man. The series came along at a time when the creator was given full autonomy. The other writers actors and cinematographers were also equal to the task. A good writer shines a light on the world and speaks to its ills in a way that is just succinctly put in a way that most feel but can't articulate and a freedom of expression is needed to voice that truth. We were there when the Sopranos premiered. No one wants that truth any longer. People want placation and they're given the mirror of their wishes and not of reality.

NO. OVA HERE.

The Shield is the only show that comes close imo.

The Wire, Six Feet Under and Mad Men are better. Sopranos is still top five material but hopefully that will change.

literally cringed out loud

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Pitiful.

now come on mate, don't be like that. i agree six feet under and mad men are great but they hardly hold a torch to sopranos

Not enough explosions?

fuck you I'm jealous

If you are rooting for anyone by the end of this series, then you've missed the point. Should you be conflicted? Yeah, probably but rooting for anyone isn't the end game here.

>Deadwood
>Having any direction at all over it's seasons

some of the sopranos is cringey
>college visit
>massive g
>he's an interior decorator
also carmela's accent and tony's breathing disgusted me

This.

He never had the makings of a varsity athlete

>college visit
accurate representation
>massive G
wow, a "thug" acting like a clown is cringey (it's supposed to be)
>he's an interior....
it's a joke.

the rest is character building

Oh God please someone tell me his mother gets brutally murdered.

Best scene

Gomorrah. It's pretty much The Sopranos except Italian. It's on Netflix rn.

Jackie Jr. did and look what happened to him.

>Tony is fucking furious
>He tries to look stern and compose himself
>He starts breathing heavily through his nose
>He points the finger in the face

What a fucking show. What a fucking performance. What-a-fucking-actor.

R.I.P Gandolfini, you were truly something else.

Yes.

Here how is how the HBO series are properly ranked to top 10:

1. The Wire
2. Rome
3. The Sopranos
4. The Leftovers
5. Band of Brothers
6. Game of Thrones
7. Deadwood
8. OZ
9. Six Feet Under
10. The Deuce (might gain few ranks depending how it's going to continue)

>Rome and The Wire above The Sopranos

Nigga just get the fuck out of here and take your meme opinions back to rebbit.

The Wire was above The Sopranos on writing and on everything except acting. Rome was just absolute kino and the only reason it's above the Sopranos is because it was so well produced and the setting is just amazing.

>pretty much the sopranos except italian

S2 and 3 had weak parts (Al's stone, Trixie in general, and her shooting Hearst), but its character development, mainly Al, is much better than anything outside the Sopranos, and its dialogue was as entertaining as you can get. (Stringer and McNulty are like 2D cartoons compared to Swearengen--although The Sops characters are even better developed than Al)

Its setting and themes were interesting enough, and they had the subtlety not to beat the viewer over the head with them unlike The Wire.

So it's Sopranos>>>>>Deadwood>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>The Wire (although I haven't watched Mad Men)

I said back to rebbit.

>carmela's accent
is one of the most entertaining voices in all of TV. It's endearing. I'm from the South, but some of those boston and NY/NJ accents on women can be amazing, when they aren't too trashy.

How about you watch it and you'll see I'm not joking.
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>It's pretty much The Sopranos except without any of the thematic depth or character development
fix'd

No. The Wire is nothing better than an OK show. Glad you drank the kool aid though

>muh secret society
>everyone who doesn't think like I do must be redditor

Not a great show. Go back to pleddit

You gotta go to the land of gooks to get anything as good as the Sopranos.

>I haven't watched the show.
fix'd

>The Wire was above The Sopranos on writing and on everything except acting.
Sops does literally EVERYTHING significantly better than The Wire.

I did. It's a glorified soap opera. It's just as simplistic and plebbish as BrBa is compared to Sopranos. deal with it.
>it's foreign so it's good
luhmao

t. mega brainlet

Boardwalk Empire is breddy gud.

Deadwood is probably my favourite.

Seconding this.

Whatever helps you sleep at night, user. I'm just trying to get more awareness for the show on this board.

a cryptic answer...
she turns into special effects

>Tony not good guy?

Funny I was just thinking of Boardwalk, wondering if it would be worth a second viewing, after careful consideration i decided N O but i had an urge to see Gretchen Mol's titties

agree couldn't get past season 1 BORING

They all speak to the introspection inherent to the personal life experience. It just depends on the interpretation that speaks to you, stark reality or an artistic flair. They all had their moments of both but in the end the narrative choices became clear....

That being said, I think The Sopranos did it best for me.

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Tony is literally the villain you cuck

The Wonder Years is entirely different but vastly underrated, including on Sup Forums. It has character depth, production values and consistency of aesthetics, themes (of family and change like Sopranos) and drama across multiple seasons. Nothing comes close to what David Chase accomplished in the medium, but Wonder Years pushed network quality to the limit.

Twin Peaks
X-Files
Game of Thrones
Daredevil
Mr. Robot

>inb4 Mr. Robot

Haven’t watched it in a while but remember liking it alot. Good choice.

I'd also include
>Larry Sanders Show
>Twin Peaks S1 and S3
>first few seasons of X-Files
>The Wire (only thing that truly comes close, exterior vs interior of American psyche contrast )
>Zatoichi

Cool, I recommend rewatching. It holds up and then some. I was kinda shocked. The Dad character is an all-timer. But all-around great performances, no "message" bullshit either.

You made me laugh at work and almost got me caught browsing Sup Forums, dickhead haha

>gabagool mentioned

Honestly, no. It started the Golden Age and is still the best.

way to same fag your own post

someone explain the wire to me. Season 1 was so generic it was unwatchable to me. What is the appeal. Is it just brainlets or something?

I sorta liked the one black kid dealing drugs story. The mainish one. Not the little niggers they were annoying. King nigger is a dumb tv show meme that is annoying but it worked well enough for a villain especially a drug dealer

The cop portions were fucking awful garbage though. Litterally
>I got the DA on my ass
is essentially spoken in an episode. How can I take this seriously.

Plus the melodrama omg. The death signal right before the lesbo cop got shot was maximum cringe. Then I found out she doesn't even die...fucking pathetic.

Whatever it was meant to be when it started, it ended up becoming a story about the degradation of an American city due to the failings of its citizens in all walks of life.

it's terrible, it just gets hyped up as the great nigger tv show because the Sopranos is too white

>>I got the DA on my ass
>is essentially spoken in an episode. How can I take this seriously.


it was a different time

Very mediocre, juvenile even.

>the Sopranos is too white

I know they are a bunch of greasy dagos but The Sopranos is a very white in it's themes and attitudes

The Wire is a show about the macro of society, and how different pockets of a city conflict and interact in the criminal underbelly, police, and bureaucracy. It's arguable about whether portraying inner city drugdealers in Shakespearan chess board tragedy is an intellectual, politicized stretch, but The Wire does this brilliantly. The entire show is immersive gray area, unlike The Sopranos. And the urban aesthetics add a gripping vitality, a voyeurism, that didn't allow something like Rome to connect in the same way. Personally, the Darwinian way in which the drug bosses develop, ending with Marlo, is the appeal, it's handled realistically. One of the only nitpicks about Sopranos is that Tony never faces really formidable competition, Phil and Johnny never moved in on his turf, and The Wire presents all the top dealers, and the drug market itself, as complicit in summoning Marlo. That's the big realization when you study crime, it opens the gates to sociopathy, the same as global politics.

>One of the only nitpicks about Sopranos is that Tony never faces really formidable competition
he does, it just comes from internal sources rather than external