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The unexpected brilliance of Livia Soprano's final onscreen appearance
A much-mocked visual effects sequence uses the odd and uncanny to incredible effect.
the sopranos
The HBO America trilogy
Another half-baked schema for thinking about television from Emily VanDerWerff
Episodes: HBO's trilogy of America
The Sopranos, The Wire, and Deadwood aren't just three of the best TV series of all time. They also, weirdly, tell the entire story of America, in HBO-friendly terms. (Let us pause, briefly, here to say that the continued downgrading of Deadwood in SOME CORNERS is just awful,