I noticed that ClearPlay had a filter for season one of The Sopranos, so I reserved it from the library. They bleep out a quite a few words and some violent seems are skipped but none of the continuity seemed to be lost. It's a well done drama and quite entertaining.
So it starts out with mob boss Tony Soprano having a panic attack where he passes out. So he goes to a psychiatrist (rather reluctantly) and talks about his stress and then get a prescription for Prozac. He was feeling pretty unhappy because his wife and daughter and having big conflicts, and their are mob turf disputes with his mob boss uncle, and tension with his cantankerous mother who they want to put in a retirement community.
I was able to watch it and enjoy it as entertainment not without worrying too much about the twisted morality of these people (murder, immorality, theft, etc.) But at the end of episode 4 Anthony Jr. figures out that his dad is in the mafia. His sister printed out all this mafia stuff from the Internet and he stayed up reading it, then he looks over at a picture of him and his dad fishing. Then the next day at a funeral the camera pans over to him standing behind a grave peering out at his dad.
That is what made the whole thing seem really tragic. What kind of life is little Anthony going to inherit? He just figured out his dad (who he dearly loves) is a crook and a murderer. What kind of a reality is that? It makes me appreciate being born to righteous parents.
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