The Sopranos: Every Season Ranked Worst To Best

The end of The Sopranos was about as momentous as TV gets, and while the ending is still a sore spot for many fans, for most, it didn’t disappoint. Wrapping up the saga of Tony Soprano was an immense job, and David Chase et al stuck the landing in a tense run of nine episodes that tied up some loose ends and left others fiendishly dangling.

Most everything in the show is wrapped up just right, with characters like Christopher, AJ, and Paulie getting endings that aren’t necessarily conclusive, but feel just right.

While The Sopranos doesn’t fold under pressure like some major shows at the final stretch, though, that sense of finality isn’t always for the best. The early stretch of the run does retread the same ground a couple of times in its attempts to hammer home just how low Tony has finally sunk, and if we’re being honest, the final clash with the New York mob wasn’t the grandstand finish we might have hoped for.

The Sopranos does everything it can to de-sensationalise the mob, and that leads to a final season that’s if not anticlimactic then certainly bleak.