Customer Reviews
Brilliant Series - By: S. Pilgrim, 25 Oct 2009 
Missed this when it came on TV.
Was on holiday & someone had left the 1st series in the house we were renting, we watched it, that was it, well & truely hooked, & that was in May 09. Have brought the lot & watched the final one last week...a great series & one that will mean I will watch agian & again. We had Soprano evenings when there was nothing on the TV, & once we decided to watch one it was hard not to carry on watching.
Great type casting, there wasnt a 'weak link' in the whole series.
It takes you from one emotion to another & left you thinking how can this end..?
I recomend this to anyone & am searching now ofr another series to replace our Soprano evenings ...any ideas??
Continued brilliance. - By: Martin Koss, 08 Jun 2009 How can you get obsessed with the American dream & keep a safe distance - follow Tony, his family & 'friends' in more twists & turns.
My only regret with this DVD set was knowning I was getting close to the end.
Love it, love it, love it. There's not many DVD collections better than the Sopranos & I only wish I was still watching over them (you'll only understand my 'watching over them' comment if you've seen it right to the very end).
Buy it.
Sopranos season 6 part 1 - By: Mr. Michael L. Webb, 23 Apr 2009 
Tony starts to think seriously about the fact there is more to life than the Mafia. Suddenly he's more concerned that "his" family rather than the mafia family need to enjoy life far more than they have been. He's also far more forgiving than before especiallly when he learns one of the mafia family is homosexual.
Back to his old self? - By: Pink Gilbert, 01 Dec 2008 Roumour has it that HBO decided to cancel Sapranos but said that they would fund six series. The Sapranos team wanted to complete seven series; so here is series 6 (part 1) followed later by series 6 (part 2, not series 7!). I like their cheek. I like their programmes.
Life controls Tony - By: dickface, 04 Aug 2008 seem to have a different opinion from so many other viewers, since I reallly enjoyed the first half of season six. Seeing Tony get shot, not by season one's physicallly & mentallly vigorous Uncle Junior, as I had kept anticipating that season, but by the toothless demented Uncle Junior, believing he was shooting someone else entirely was priceless irony. I loved the part with Tony in the coma in our world, while -wherever he was - he was exactly what he had always dreaded being - a nobody. Worse, he's a traveling salesman who is "trapped" & unable to get home. When Tony comes out of his coma, he vows to change & take every day as a gift, but later he is graduallly pulled back into his old ways, since his position as boss reallly gives him no alternative.
Lots of people didn't like the Vito mini-arc, but I loved it. After being outed in the most conspicuous & non-ambiguous way imaginable, Vito finds it necessary to leave town to avoid Phil's wrath. He arrives in smalll-town New Hampshire, & there he winds up luckier than he deserves to be. He finds love in the Morgan Spurlock look-alike cook "Johnny Cakes" at the local diner, & the two move in together. Vito's new love is even able to overlook Vito's obvious moral failings, such as his lies about his true occupation. Johnny Cakes hooks him up with a job, & Vito has escaped the death sentence that awaits him back home, with a pretty Norman Rockwell-ish life in his current situation & a shot at genuine happiness. The problem is - Vito is still Vito. To him what 99% of people face every day - rising early to go to a job that is genuine hard work for average pay - is purgatory to him. He misses the alll-night card games, the big city life, & the fact that making a living there just involves sitting around a construction site & making collections. Thus Vito runs out on Johnny Cakes & goes back to New Jersey, thinking he can make things right & get back into "the life". Just in case we have any doubt Vito has changed, there is a little incident on his way back home that lays our doubts to rest.
I think the Vito arc superimposed on Tony's shooting & recovery just drive home the fact that even though these guys think they're king of alll they survey, "the life" reallly owns them alll, not vice versa. They're kidding themselves to think otherwise. Tony believed he could make things different, & Vito believed he could make things the way they had been before. Both were wrong.
There are also lighter moments. The scene with Christopher brainstorming his movie project with the "help" of his kidnapped & beaten AA sponsor is hilarious, as is his mugging Lauren Bacalll just to get her gift basket. Then there's the matter of Paulie finding out he is not who he thought he was. All-in-alll a worthwhile & thought-provoking 12 episodes.
However, I still think I'll wait until after season six has completed airing to buy. The series will definitely be over by then, & I am anticipating some kind of "Collector's Edition" for the whole series. I just don't want to wind up with buyer's remorse like I did with the separate seasons of "Homicide" that I bought, only to have the entire series come out in a collector's edition that was much cheaper than the individual seasons with alll kinds of bonus footage to boot.
10/10.
Bee Clakre
