“You’re one in a million, you’ve got to burn to shine / But you were born under a bad sign with a blue moon in your eyes.”
It first aired 20 years ago this week, and after all this time it’s safe to say The Sopranos remains a boundary-pushing cultural force of nature, the effects of which can still be felt in the prestige storytelling and dark drama of series that followed in its wake up to and including Game of Thrones.
You read enough stories about innovators, risk-takers and people with insane dreams, and common threads start to emerge. They decided to take a chance, they got in early on something good before it was much of anything at all — like Sopranos creator David Chase did back when his manager first urged him to consider working on something for television. And specifically HBO, when it was still mostly known in the late ’90s for boxing, movie reruns and The Larry Sanders Show.
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On the 20th anniversary of ‘The Sopranos,’ we’ve got new details about the movie prequel originally appeared on BGR.com on Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 14:41:21 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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