When the pilot episode of landmark crime drama The Sopranos aired in January 1999, not many media commentators would have foreseen this wildly experimental HBO series transforming the entire landscape ...

This single line of dialogue sums up so much about turn-of-the-millennium television. After the 1970s and ’80s saw constant innovation in what television could accomplish, the late ’90s plateaued with ...

Rewatching the pilot two decades later, what remains remarkable is just how fully realized the show was from the jump, and just how much the pilot informed everything that came after. Even the best ...

Twenty-five years ago, in 1999, David Chase created one of the most iconic television series in history with The Sopranos. Not only did it make him rich and famous, but it turned its star, James ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...