The Sopranos
Rock SolidEvery season landed between 8.4 and 8.8 across 6 seasons.
Antihero leadA protagonist doing bad things you can't stop watching.This show: 10/10Criminal underworldOrganized crime, gangs and the criminal life seen from the inside.This show: 10/10Character studyInterior life matters more than plot.This show: 10/10Morally grayNo clean heroes or villains anywhere in sight.This show: 9/10Suburban underbellyDark currents beneath tidy suburban surfaces.This show: 8/10Tight writingNo wasted scenes, just disciplined storytelling.This show: 8/10Mental healthPsychological struggle treated with real seriousness.This show: 8/10NaturalisticUnderstated, lifelike performances and look.This show: 8/10
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Starring
James GandolfiniLorraine BraccoEdie FalcoMichael ImperioliDominic ChianeseSteven Van Zandt
Written by
David Chase
Starring
James GandolfiniLorraine BraccoEdie FalcoMichael ImperioliDominic ChianeseSteven Van Zandt
Written by
David Chase
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The Sopranos Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | E14 | E15 | E16 | E17 | E18 | E19 | E20 | E21 | ||
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| S1 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 8.5 | 8.5 | 8.9 | 8.4 | 8.3 | 8.5 | 8.5 | 7.7 | 8.8 | 9.1 | 9.2 | |||||||||
| S2 | 8.6 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 8.3 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 8.6 | 8.7 | 8.8 | 8.8 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 9.3 | 9.5 | |||||||||
| S3 | 8.8 | 8.6 | 8.6 | 8.4 | 9.1 | 8.6 | 8.7 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 9.7 | 9.2 | 9.1 | |||||||||
| S4 | 8.5 | 8.2 | 8.3 | 7.7 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 8.4 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 9.4 | 8.9 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 9.4 | |||||||||
| S5 | 8.8 | 8.6 | 8.3 | 8.6 | 8.5 | 9.3 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 8.7 | 8.8 | 8.6 | 8.6 | 9.7 | 9.3 | |||||||||
| S6 | 8.8 | 9.2 | 8.8 | 8.9 | 8.4 | 8.8 | 8.5 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 8.7 | 8.2 | 9.1 | 8.8 | 8.5 | 7.8 | 8.9 | 9.2 | 9.3 | 9.7 | 9.4 |
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About
"Therapy-couch introspection disguised as a mob epic"
Tony Soprano is a New Jersey mob boss juggling a crumbling crime family and an actual family, and starts seeing a therapist to cope with panic attacks. What follows is less a gangster saga than a slow, novelistic dissection of American middle-class anxiety wearing a mafia disguise. It's patient, darkly funny, psychologically dense, and often more interested in dinner-table tension than shootouts. The violence lands harder because the show earns your attachment to these people first. It rewards close attention and reshaped what television drama could be.
Watch it for
the psychological depth Tony's therapy sessions bring to a genre built on tough-guy silence.
Maybe skip if
you want fast plotting or clean moral lines instead of prolonged, ambiguous character study.
Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.
All Seasons
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Season 11999
8.5179K1311h 18m
In Season 1, feeling his handle on his family and his business slipping away, mob boss Tony Soprano suffers a series of anxiety attacks that land him in the office of a psychiatrist. Opening up to his shrink, Tony relates the details of his life as a “waste-management consultant,” and tries to come to terms with the professional and private strains that have brought him to the brink of a breakdown.
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Season 22000
8.6147K1311h 34m
His uncle's in jail. His mother's in the hospital. His best friend's still missing. His sister's moving home. His panic attacks are back. And his shrink refuses to see him. Tony Soprano has recently been elevated to the status of mob boss following a federal bust and as the second season picks up, Tony is under more stress than ever as he deals with the demands of his new position. Making matters worse, his long-lost sister Janice has arrived to take care of their ailing mother.
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Season 32001
8.8147K1312h 2m
In season three, the federal wiretap begins and Meadow goes to college. Tony faces challenges from some tough newcomers, such as hothead Ralph Cifaretto, New York crime boss Johnny Sack and a sexy car saleswoman.
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Season 42002
8.5126K1312h 18m
With Paulie in jail, Christopher becomes acting capo in season four. Junior faces a RICO trial while Tony finds that the recession affects his businesses. Meanwhile, Furio catches Carmela's eye, and Janice sets her sights on Bobby.
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Season 52004
8.8131K1311h 49m
In season five, a separated Tony and Carmela negotiate family and money issues. Meanwhile, Tony's reunion with paroled cousin Tony Blundetto may endanger his alliance with Johnny Sack; and Adriana gets in deeper with the Feds.
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Season 62006
8.8217K2119h 10m
As the final episodes take shape, Tony faces a myriad of stress-inducing crises at home, at work, and from the law. While his wife and children each make choices that promise to change the face of the Sopranos' domestic life, Tony also comes to doubt the allegiances of some of those closest to him at work . . . none of whom is above suspicion.
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
James Gandolfini Tony Soprano
Lorraine Bracco Dr. Jennifer Melfi
Edie Falco Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli Christopher Moltisanti
Dominic Chianese Junior Soprano
Steven Van Zandt Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri
Robert Iler A.J. Soprano
Jamie Lynn Sigler Meadow Soprano
Aida Turturro Janice Soprano, Janice Soprano Baccalieri
Crew
David Chase
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