Article: TV REVIEW: Season five of 'The Sopranos' starts off with a bang

Avi Flombaum
University Wire
03-10-2004
(Badger Herald) (U-WIRE) MADISON, Wis. -- In the event that "The Sopranos" is an unfamiliar subject, please consider the following: A motivated viewer would only need two days to watch the 52 one-hour episodes that compose the first four seasons. And after that scholarly, pleasurable and very impressive viewing marathon, such a viewer would surely find comfort in the premiere of season five that aired last Sunday on HBO.

The year-and-a-half break between seasons gave a nightmarish quality to the explosive season-four finale. In all likelihood, had season five chosen to ignore the events of the fourth season completely, viewers would have assumed it ...

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