The Sopranos (Scripted, English)
Genres: Drama, Crime
Status: Ended
Premiered: 1999-01-10
Ended: 2007-06-10
Network: HBO
Country: US
Airs on: Sunday
Air time: 21:00
Runtime: 60 minutes
Average rating: 8.9
The Sopranos, writer-producer-director David Chase's extraordinary television series, is nominally an urban gangster drama, but its true impact strikes closer to home: Like 1999's other screen touchstone, American Beauty, the HBO series chronicles a dysfunctional, suburban American family in bold relief. And for protagonist Tony Soprano, there's the added complexity posed by heading twin families, his collegial mob clan and his own, nouveau riche brood.