Made in America

This series used the "mobster" genre to explore life. Life with its difficult choices, lies, and reality. How can you end a life? When life ends, the lights go out, and for all of us who felt Tony Soprano as alive, it just had to end. What happens? What happened was that we no longer have access to Tony Soprano's life. It's over, it's sad, and even if he lives on, our relationship with him in real time is over, finis.

Whatever you believe after life, or life after death, the fact is that relationships end. Our collective relationship with these people is over. It's not Al Pacino, it's Tony Soprano, and that's an amazing achievement.

Like many viewers, I was a bit disappointed at the final scene being so abrupt and ambiguous, but I realized later how absolutely genius the ending actually was. The suspicious looking Italian fellow that the camera was fixating on, when he went into the restroom, it was reminiscent of the scene in Godfather 1 when Michael goes into the bathroom during the sit-down with Solozzo and emerges with a pistol. And it was brought to my attention that Bobby and Tony had a conversation about death earlier in the season and Bobby mentioned something about how he thought that one probably won't know if he/she get killed. That the music would just stop, the camera would stop rolling (metaphorically speaking). I don't think there can be any doubt. Tony Soprano is dead. And I realize there are people out there that wine about how the fate of Tony wasn't handed to you, but such people are not true fans. Those who are devoted followers would realize that nothing in the show is handed to you on a silver platter, that many times you would have to search for your own meaning in things. In that respect, the ending kept true to the themes of this brilliant television series.

This is truly the greatest series ever in my opinion. The episode starts with FBI agent Dwight Harris talking to Tony. Tony finds out that one his guy's is going to testify. Then they have Bobby's funeral. Phil Leotardo is taken care of in front of his family. Tony goes to see Janice and also Sil in the hospital. AJ decides he wants to join the army but Carmella and Tony think he should get involved in films. Meadow decides she wants to do law and not medicine. Tony's lawyer tells him it's likely he will have to go to trial. Then Tony goes to see Uncle Junior one last time, in a very touching and emotional scene for long time Soprano fans. Then the family all meet at a restaurant and for die hard fans we all know what happens in the end. Most people have an opinion on what happened to Tony, all I can say is I loved this series and think it's the greatest drama series ever

In classic unconventional storytelling, David Chase ends the series with the uncertainties of life, another prominent theme in The Sopranos. It doesn't matter whether Tony lives or dies, what matters is that we enjoy with what we have in life, to "Don't Stop Believing."

There are no words to describe this show.. except two TELEVISION REDEFINED..And trust me I am writing this in 2020...The best show ever..