SORRY, THE SOPRANOS IS OFF-KEY

摘要

It has caused what just may be the most overblown media frenzy of the last quarter century—and not only because The New York Times said it "just may be the greatest work of American popular culture of the last quarter century." I am referring, of course, to The Sopranos, the Home Box Office series that has given organized crime—the make-believe kind—a new lease on life. Its popularity is no surprise. Organized crime has fascinated viewers since Musketeers of Pig Alley hit the nickelodeons in 1912. But The Sopranos has truly struck a nerve, largely because of what The Times described as its "hyper-realism."