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The worst series ever?, 7 November 2000
Author: Gary-161

This pernicious trash starts with a vulgar title sequence with a song "get myself a gun" and a gun replacing a letter in 'The Sopranos'. This stylization tells you all you need to know about the mentality behind this dismal show. Scorcese's sleazy wannabe films are now being absorbed into the mainstream but as little more than dispiriting parodies. I've lost count of how many films have started to treat the mob as almost lovable and acceptable, 'Betsy's Wedding' springs to mind, but there are many. It was just a matter of time before a television series was made, and the results are as dreary as expected. Boring, elliptical, nasty and mediocre, it hits the same note on the keyboard week after week and the psychiatrist plot is piffle. It's so called insightful writing flatters to deceive. There is nothing ironic, funny or remotely interesting about it, it merely perpetuates the mindlessness of the viewing public who seem prepared to swallow the premise like so much sheep. Underneath it all is a moral cowardice. "Come in me old mafiosi, and have a cappuccino." This series sucks up to criminals and smacks of appeasement, and all just for a corporate buck. I don't care about what's going through their heads or their boring, vile lives and I'm amazed anybody else does. You can make a series which deepens your world or you can make a cynical bit of exploitation like this that is reductive to the spirit. Since it tells you what you already know endlessly it is all down to style and getting off on violence. America's media is in a rut. There is this quote from somewhere: "There is no worst as long as we can say: This is the worst." This is the worst. But you don't have to fill your head with this pointless dead end film making anymore. No more Sopranos and Ally McBilge. A clear head bereft of depression. Go to the window and say "I'm mad as hell and I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!"

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, now there's a series.

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