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Article: Bada Bing! Lexington.(Saying goodbye to Tony Soprano)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 9, 2007
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Saying goodbye to Tony Soprano
THE day of mourning is at hand. On June 10th, after eight years, 86 episodes and innumerable garrottings, gougings, beatings, decapitations and chain-assisted drownings, "The Sopranos" comes to an end, and with
it arguably the best hour on American television.
Tabloid journalists are speculating about the final episode. Will Tony Soprano survive or splatter? Commentators are competing to heap praise on the series and its creator, David Chase. David Remnick uses his oracular position as editor of the New Yorker to pronounce it "the richest achievement in the history of television". And others are grappling with the ...