Bits & Pieces: The Sopranos Series Finale
Did it really surprise anyone that Sopranos creator/mastermind David Chase didn’t satiate our collective lust for some huge arching melodrama? The man and the series have been deftly commenting and tweaking our need for catharsis for the last seven years, and I didn’t expect anything different from the finale.
The last fifty odd minutes of “The Sopranos” was one of its finest hours, a mini-State of Things masterpiece written and directed by David Chase. The finale was less about the family and more about our country, and the American way of numbing ourselves with pop culture and selling out the first chance we get.
And it can cost us at any given minute. The fact that this came off as neither pompous nor pretentious is a testament to the supreme skill of everyone involved on both sides of the camera. Yes, the feud between Tony and Phil Leotardo was resolved, but it couldn’t have been anymore besides the point.
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