The western is gone with the frontier and you can't see high noon because the malls block the sun. Instead Tony is a loquacious Mafioso who visits a psychiatrist. He doesn't brood, he analyzes. Mafia mythology is urban born, but has moved to the suburbs. The reality has changed.
Morality is in the eye of the beholder.
The dons complain about the high cost of college just like the rest of us. One scene is emblematic. The immediate Soprano family, mom and pop, their son Anthony, Jr., and daughter Meadow, are having breakfast. Meadow, a teenager, talks about sex, rationalizing the conversation at the table because everybody's talking about President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. That's the sociological grid for the show.