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Sopranos Pilot Act Breaks

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Friend of the blog Sébastien writes:
I watched “The Sopranos” pilot five times and it’s driving me crazy : I can’t distinguish the act breaks!
Well, I don’t know.  Do you?  I haven’t watched that episode in a very long time and don’t have it on hand to break down right this second, so I thought I’d […]

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The Five Greatest TV Shows Ever

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

The results are in and the winner is clear:
The Wire took the lead early and never let go.  Arrested Development on the other hand could not hold it’s early lead and slipped into third place behind Seinfeld, which wasn’t even really a player in the nomination round.
The Simpsons beat out that other beloved tv family, […]

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Shmuck, You Didn’t Have Anyone Killed

Friday, October 24, 2008

The Paley Center for Media has a great collection of videos available to be screened on line and the audio of some of the programs is available for download from Audible (for $1.97 each).  This week I listened to a program called The Whacked Sopranos.  It was a panel discussion with David Chase, Terence Winter […]

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The Sopranos Finale

Monday, June 11, 2007

I know. It’s a blog about pilots, but how can I resist a finale now and then? So here’s my breakdown of the twenty-first episode of the sixth season of the Sopranos, written by David Chase.
Because The Sopranos is produced for HBO and airs there without commercial breaks, it’s not easy to discern […]

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