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If you're bummed you won't be seeing your favorite Jersey family anymore, there are tours you can go on to see some of the old stomping grounds of Tony and Co. Though the neighborhood that holds the Sopranos house is fighting to keep tours out, there's plenty more to see. "Vito" gives a video tour that you can watch here.
So what have the critics been saying about the finale today? A spoiler-heavy wrap-up after the jump...
In 2001, David Chase spoke about his approach to the eventual ending saying, "The paradigm of the traditional gangster film is the rise and fall. You have to ask yourself: 'Do I want to bother with that paradigm?'" So why is anyone surprised with last nights ending?
• The NY Times says "There was no good ending, so “The Sopranos” left off without one." Overall, they seem generally pleased by the "perfectly imperfect" finish to the show. Though question the use of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" as the note to go out on, saying, "certainly that last bit of song — 'Don’t Stop Believing,' by Journey — had to be a joke."
• NYMag likens the finale (and series) to Ecclesiastes, "The whole point is that there is no end, even when it comes time to say 'The End' — or, in this case, 'Whaddya gonna do?'" They also call the last two episodes "the most incisive and disturbing picture yet produced of post-9/11 America," with fear and paranoia often followed by forgetfulness.
They also have the details of an alternate ending. "Matt Servitto told reporters. The last he knew, the scene in Holsten's diner — which was shot in the real life Holsten’s out in Bloomfield, New Jersey — went on a little longer and featured one of the menacing figures in the diner dominating the camera. 'The scene cut as the guy was advancing towards him, as if he was about to shoot Tony. It was, I think, less ambiguous that Tony was going to get shot.'"
• Slate stated, "I thought the last episode was perfect. I'm not disappointed at all. We were privileged, over the past eight years, to receive an all-access pass to David Chase's brain." Again, another dig at the song choice: "the final sound we heard after 86 hours of modern-day Shakespeare, after all, was Steve Perry's voice."
Most agree that the "perfectly annoying" finale ended with a "beautifully unresolved stopping point," though there's sure to be some haters on message boards. In the end, we're left with the knowledge that SUV's are evil head-crushing, fire-starting machines, that Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" really is loved by everyone (mob bosses included), and that Chase did, after all, leave an opening for a big screen finale.
Check out what our readers thought; we have to it up to one reader who referenced the Sword of Damocles. And, so far, 37% of our readers loved the finale, 32% hated it, and 30% thought it was okay.
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"most incisive and disturbing picture yet produced of post-9/11 America,"?
That wasn't even the most incisive or disturbing picture of post-9/11 America on HBO. What the hell are these people smoking?
It wasn't an ending. It was a cop out. A lame excuse to renew interest in it and say tony is alive for a movie if it ever comes to that point or say Tony is dead if interest is not warranted. FUCKING LAME!!! Don't watch LOST cause you will waste your goddamn time like I did with this show. I wish I could get paid for writing myself into a corner and never ever making resolutions or ends to certain character arcs. THe sopranos went from a thought provoking drama to a cartoon.
No. Tony is dead. Everything goes black.
And any movie would be a prequel or a companion piece to the series because there is nobody left. Who wants to see a movie with Tony and Paulie sitting around outside Satriale's? There won't be a movie.
On there with Seinfeld and Roseanne for the worst finales of all time.
Terrific ending! Perfect. Simple, effective, heart-pounding, haunting.
actually, I used to think the seinfeld ending was awful but have slowly turned around to now thinking it was genius. I mean putting self absorbed scumbag greedy jews in Jail? Genius!
Terrible ending. Cop out to say "life doesn't have tidy endings" because life does arrest (or at least question) criminals whose finaces and business partners disappear (Tim Daly). Plus where's the incentive for the FBI agent to risk putting himself in prison (or killed) just to give Leotardo's location. Because he liked Tony? Was he on the take? It must have been a shitload of money.
It was just a lazy way to go out. And even if Tony is dead, we deserve to see it. This is fiction - if we don't see it, it didn't happen. It's like not telling who Kasier Soze is or keeping Rosebud a secret. It's a cop-out.
#7 - Jerry was the only Jewish person.
Countdown to the movie begins.
george was definitely jewish too
#6, you're an anti-semitic piece of crap. rot in hell.
and no, george wasn't Jewish. he was spanish. his last name was costanza. there was even an episode about his mother making paella, you moron.
You want to see a bad ending to a great show? Watch the last (150-minute long) episode of M*A*S*H.
I had a suspicion about the last Sopranos episode, then I watched it a second time, and it was confirmed.
It was great.
Watch it again, you'll see.
#7
if you weren't able to figure out who Kasier Soze was, you're an idiot.
actually george's religion is never known. Frank is thought to be an italian catholic and estelle is thought to be jewish.
by the way, my mom makes paella, does that make her spanish?