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...shows do it badly, and great shows like The Sopranos do it so well that you hardly notice. Every season, New Jersey Mob boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) outwits his rivals and deceives his family, friends and therapist, all while remaining oblivious to his failings. His marriage to Carmela (Edie Falco) unravels as he chases anything with legs and hair spray and she pursues sad, unconsummated flirtations. Mobsters from the past return to the scene and start turf wars. The feds circle but never manage to bust Tony. People die in drolly creative ways. And when the season is over...
...first four episodes of Season 5 (Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T.; premieres March 7) find The Sopranos as strong as ever. As always, it opens with a shot of the newspaper on the Sopranos' driveway--except that Tony isn't around to pick it up, having separated from Carmela in the incendiary Season 4 finale. He's living in the house that belonged to his deceased, emasculating mother (on The Sopranos, you can never escape your family history). Carmela's at casa Soprano with an angry teenage son--and a wild black bear invading the backyard, a menacing inversion...
...months since the last new episode (a delay, says Chase, caused by cast illnesses and the long shooting schedule necessary to give the show its cinematic look). That's 16 nail-biting months since mobster Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) had his daughter's ex-boyfriend killed; his wife Carmela (Edie Falco) began studying for her real estate license and worrying about her complicity in her husband's crimes; his psychiatrist, Dr. Melfi (Lorraine Bracco), was recovering from her rape; son Anthony Jr. (Robert Iler) was challenging Tony's parental authority; Mob captain Ralphie Cifaretto (Joe Pantoliano) was testing Tony...
...undermining Tony with his own people, and the feds have planted a mole in the heart of the Soprano family. Tony is back in therapy, but so are his sister Janice (Aida Turturro) and daughter Meadow (Jamie-Lynn Sigler). Most perplexing for Tony, his marriage may be unraveling; Carmela has a crush on one of his associates, and as I learned at a set visit during the shooting of the season finale in June, one character ominously offered Tony condolences on his "marital situation...
...more relevant than ever. The new episodes have a few World Trade Center references, and Chase cut the Twin Towers from the credits, where they used to be visible in the rearview mirror of Tony's car. But the disaster really echoes in more oblique ways, as when Carmela badgers Tony to start estate planning in case anything should "happen" to him. "Watch the f______ news," she says. "Everything comes...