Monday, December 11, 2006
Sopranos Keep Singing
After peaking early in its long run, The Sopranos Season 7 set of DVDs (as rented from Netflix), is part of a long joyless glide of the show to a possibly enervated conclusion next year. The show became more conventional, more fractured, as the sometimes perfunctory story-lines played themselves out over the past several seasons. But still, in its doddering old age it is capable of evoking a shudder of psychological insight and of grappling with a moral landscape in a humorous, often satirical (the show can be very funny), yet serious manner; The Sopranos is still better than the current crop of slickly produced and cleverly done TV — boring and empty manifestations of pop culture at its core.
No longer worth watching for what it is, The Sopranos is worth watching for what it aspires to be.