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Written by Charlie McCollum, MCT
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Thursday, 11 January 2007 |
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 I’m of two minds about the edited-for-basic-cable repeats of HBO’s “The Sopranos” that begin airing on A&E.
Mind No. 1 says that if you’ve never seen an episode of the seminal mob drama, you’ll probably be perfectly happy with the cleaned-up versions, which eliminate all the #%%-ing language, dampen some of the violence and put the strippers at the Bada Bing in clothes.
Mind No. 2 says you should run screaming from this bastardized mistreatment of a great television series.
When mob boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) calls someone an “ungrateful little jerk” and his mouth keeps moving silently for even a fraction of a second, you know something is missing.
But if the only way you’re ever going to watch “The Sopranos” is to do so on A&E, there are some rewards, particularly in the early episodes. The storytelling remains first-rate. Gandolfini and Edie Falco — who is Tony’s wife Carmela — give two of the finest performances in the history of television.
My bottom line advice, though, is to spring for the DVDs of “The Sopranos” and watch the series as it was meant to be seen.
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