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The Sopranos

Created by David Chase · 1999–2007

Quick Verdict

The Sopranos has a 93% Celluloid Score — our average across critic reviews, audience ratings, Metascore, IMDb, and fan ratings. Celluloid Pick — recommended. Streaming on HBO Max.

93%
Celluloid Score Celluloid Pick

Averaged from 5 sources

92%Critic Score
96%Audience
90Metascore
9.2IMDb /10
95%Fan Score
Seasons
6 · 86 episodes
Network
HBO Max
Cast
James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Lorraine Bracco, Michael Imperioli, Tony Sirico

Is The Sopranos worth watching?

Yes — The Sopranos earns a 93% Celluloid Score. Celluloid Pick, created by David Chase and streaming on HBO Max.

Critics Consensus

The show that inaugurated the age of prestige television — novelistic, darkly funny and psychologically fearless, with James Gandolfini's Tony Soprano an all-time screen creation.

Celluloid Critics Consensus

What is The Sopranos about?

A New Jersey mob boss juggles the demands of his crime family and his actual family, confiding his panic attacks to a psychiatrist in a series that turned the American gangster myth into a study of anxiety, mortality and the rotting suburban dream.

Critic Reviews

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The Sopranos Review: The Show That Invented Prestige Television

★★★★★ 5/5

HBO's The Sopranos turned the American gangster myth inside out, filtering it through panic attacks and a psychiatrist's couch — the novelistic drama that made television an artform and gave James Gandolfini the role of a century.

The foundational text of the modern television era — funny, brutal, and psychologically bottomless. As essential now as it was revolutionary then.

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