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June 11, 2007
Cutting To Black
I've never watched more than an episode and maybe a handful of random scenes of The Sopranos, but I tuned in to the finale tonight, just so I could know what everyone would be talking about tomorrow. It was pretty bold, going out like it did, but could something so big have really ended any other way? What David Chase did isn't quite so shocking as how he did it; on an entirely technical level, there's a jarring dissonance to that final edit that I imagine will upset people far more than its actual implications.
I realize that I don't really talk much about television here, mainly because I don't really watch it. I don't have cable, and although I've got a few shows in my Netflix queue, they always get bumped in favor of movies. In the past year, though, I've become a devoted fan of David Milch's Deadwood, which is the first show I've ever bought on DVD (I can't wait to pick up Season Three on Tuesday) and which I've generally found to better than most of what's put out on the big screen these days. It's almost single handedly changed my mind about the potential of television; I know I'm putting myself very much behind the times in saying this, but serialization, it turns out, is starting to look like a pretty good way to tell a story.
Posted by David Lowery at June 11, 2007 12:06 AM