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The Sopranos - The Complete First, Second, and Third Seasons

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Usually if one buys by the bulk, one gets a preferrential rate - sort of a retailer's discount. This dvd set successfully breaks the norm. One can pick up the the three seasons separately for [price] from Amazon.com. Better still, pick up the first two seasons together and buy the third one separate, and it will cost less (this is a special price offered by Amazon, to purchase at this price, go to the product description page for 'the Sopranos - the complete first and second seasons' and select the great buy link on the page).

As for the series, there is but one thing to say - buy it!! You will not regret the purchase.

The Sopranos is by far the most developed and cinematic show ever to be seen on television. The characters are incredibly in-depth and the plot is beyond that of any TV show and majority of movies. The world of the mobster is highly intriguing. The most fascinating aspect of it is that we can all still relate to many areas of that world. And, we can easily relate to the family life of Tony Soprano. The Sopranos is a masterpiece, and the chance to pick up these timeless works of art on DVD should not be passed by.

I originally bought the 1st Season DVD set of the Sopranos as a Xmas gift for my Stepfather, but never had seen the show myself. When my parents got through the whole season in a week, I figured I'd check it out and rent it off Netflix. Within 2 weeks, I had bought all 4 seasons! It is completely engrossing and is probably one of the top 5 works of entertainment I've ever seen. It's a bit violent and risque, but the storylines, acting, and especially the production, are so good that the liberal language and nudity is almost secondary (but it's definitely for the over 16 crowd). The casting is brilliant, and the DVD sets themselves are attractive and well-presented, though a little light on special features. I am actually considering getting HBO just to be able to see the 5th season, which starts in March 2004. The New York Times has hailed the Sopranos as the greatest achievement in American pop culture in the last quarter-century, so if you haven't seen it yet, you owe it to yourself to check it out.

Don't put off the show thinking it's another mob/crime drama. This truly lives up to the hype. It's extremely rich entertainment.

Being new to the Sopranos, having all three released seasons in one pack makes it easy to turn this series into a true addiction! With special features on all disks, including interviews, featurettes, and audio commentary on some episodes, the DVDs alone are worth it, but you'll buy all the seasons anyways - may as well do it at once!

I read an article once about "The Sopranos." Some of the people who were interviewed were former mob affiliates who said that the show is actually quite realistic and that funny things like the events depicted on the show (the Russian guy coming back to life in the woods, for example) happen all the time in real life. (It makes you wonder where David Chase is getting some of his information, doesn't it?)

In addition to being a show about the mafia, it's a show about family and a show about morals. Who doesn't love Tony Soprano? We'll watch him in a tender scene with his kids or see his affection for a horse (I think I'm jumping ahead to season four here), and then the next minute he'll be screwing some random whore while his wife is cooking dinner at home or he'll take one of his best friends out on a boat ride and fire a dozen bullets into him before dumping his body into the ocean.

Everything about this show amazes me: the acting, the writing, and the intense emotional response that you're bound to experience after watching an episode. (One thing I enjoy is listening to how some of the actor's accents have changed since the first few episodes of the series. If you listen to Tony talking in the pilot episode and then hear him talk in season three, they don't even sound like the same person.)

I'll be sad when this series finally ends.

i got it for my boyfriend a month before his birthday so it wouldn't be late getting here but it took not even a week. it drove me crazy trying to find a place to hide it from him. but i'm happy it came early. he really loves it. we are very satisfied.

I love the Sopranos. I bought the first season just to see what it was like and got totally hooked. You really become emotionally involved with the characters, and find yourself rooting them on and looking down on the cops! It has such a great story line, even my mother who doesn't like mafia flicks got hooked. Everyone I know who has seen them, loves them. I can't wait for the fourth season! I miss my Tony!

An elderly aunt got me this package for my birthday thinking it had something to do with the Three Tenors, who I love. Well, this has nothing to do with opera, that's for sure except for the Italians. This was a mini-series about the Mafia. It reminded me of the hit movies The Godfather I, II, and III except it is based in current times and not the 1970's. The
star, Tony Soprano, is played by a former guitarist for the Bruce Springsteen Band and is now seeing a psychiatrist. In the show, Mr. Soprano owns a business of some kind but he doesn't seem to spend much time on it, preferring to hang out with his seedy friends and relatives. There is a lot of rough language in this movie because it is based in New Jersey and that is how they talk there. Also, don't be surprised to see violence galore as that is what the Mafia is known for. It is entertaining, but if you watch it all in one sitting like I did it will take you about two and a half days. I don't remember a bunch from the middle part, but it all still made sense to me. I hear a sequel is in the works for 2004!