10 Confusing TV Show Questions We Still Don't Understand
6. Tony's Fate - The Sopranos
Perhaps the most divisive series finale of all time, the ending to David Chase's seminal HBO series The Sopranos left fans with a burning question they will never get an answer to. The crime drama went on one of the most legendary runs in television history, with James Gandolfini’s portrayal of Tony Soprano rightly hailed as one of the most iconic performances ever.
None of that, though, could prevent the ending from dividing fans right down the middle.
The very last scene of the show sees Tony in a diner, awaiting the rest of his family. One by one they enter, heightening the tension to dizzying levels. Everyone held their breath to see what would happen, who would be the one to take out Tony Soprano. In the end, we never got to know. Before Don’t Stop Believing stops playing, one of the greatest stories ever told on television, ends, leaving viewers desperate for answers.
More recently, Alan Taylor, director of the Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark, explained how Chase purposely left the ending ambiguous, and that in order to preserve the ending there would never be a sequel.