The Sopranos: Ranking Every Main Character Worst To Best

One of The Sopranos’ great strengths is its ability to mix the deadly serious with the deeply silly. Some of its finest episodes like “Pine Barrens” are as funny as any great sitcom, and as dramatic as the show gets, it was never afraid to get weird with an extended dream or fantasy sequence.

That said, consigliere Silvio Dante is at times so odd as to seem like he’s drifted in from another show. From his slick, rockabilly look to his permanent upturned mouth and bizarre mannerisms, Silvio is by far the least naturalistic character in a show that for the most part aims for realism.

It doesn’t help that, if we’re honest, Steve Van Zant is by a way one of the weaker actors on the show. The E Street Band guitarist came to the profession late and lacks the craft of many of his colleagues, He’s great fun in the part but his relative inexperience can be starkly exposed in a cast of this quality.

Silvio is a likeable and capable character in the Soprano crew, but is so riddled with peculiarities as to stand out, not always in a good way.