Why Tony might be hard to identify with:  He’s clearly a psychopath.  We sense that, despite the self-pitying talk typical of psychopaths, h...

 Lots of good stuff here, especially the Masterful Weave breakdown. The Ultimate Pilot Checklist: The Sopranos Rulebook Casefile: The ...

So you love a genre/setting, but you’re fed up with its phoniness and clichés. You want to inject some realism back into this world. To ...

In the DVD commentary for the “Sopranos” pilot, creator David Chase discusses where each of his ideas come from, and shows how important it...

The “Sopranos” pilot almost perfectly conforms to the checklist, but there’s one major deviation: It has separate “plot” and “character” s...

Let’s look at what the therapy does for “The Sopranos”: It’s deeply ironic: In a world where the worst thing they can say about you is “...

One of the hardest parts of television writing is “The Weave” . You not only have to come up with several excellent storylines that each ...

Tony Soprano is a New Jersey mob boss who reluctantly enters therapy with Dr. Melfi after he starts passing out from panic attacks. She ge...