5 Most Disturbing Unknowns In Television

1. The Sopranos' "Whack" Black Screen

Show: The Sopranos Episode: Made In America (S6 E21) The confusing series finale of one of the greatest television shows of all time has been discussed time and time again by professionals in the industry, critics, bloggers, and over an everyday water cooler (then and now). My final submission to this list is easily one of the most debated, but also one of the most effective if your mind is as disturbing as ours. Despite having been discussed to death (pun intended), the ending of one of HBO's most emotionally draining originals still has the most painfully disturbing implication for new and old audiences alike: that after everything is said and done, and the family seems out of danger, Tony Soprano " even hear it" when it happened. The "cut-to-black" seen on television sets around the world was the blackness Tony would see after being shot in the back of the head at a diner right in front of his family. There isn't enough time or energy to discuss all of the implications of this episode in this article, but the artistic and painstaking proof suggested and discussed by thousands of fans around the world (specifically the camera angles' changing point of view, Meadow's terrible parallel-parking skills, and the "Member's Only" jacket) is enough to give me the willies. There will always be counter-arguments, suggestions that the black screen was a cop-out ending on David Chase's part, and that's what television is all about. But when you think about it... really think about it, do you think we'd hear it coming? Or would will our lives cut-to-black before we understand what's happened? Even just talking about these unknowns has given me the creeps all over again. I'll be in fetal position, if you need me.