My Life With The Sopranos Final Part.

Watching The Sopranos in its entirety is a great and unrepeatable experience .However once you have got to the end there are no further surprises and all you can do is admire the symmetry of the more outstanding episodes.The story is a tragic one with few of the original characters still standing at the last.Tony's tragedy is that he has everything he wants but it is not enough and he still suffers from depression for which he needs to see Dr Melfi.In the keynote episode Heidi and Kennedy after the death of Christopher his nephew he flies to Las Vegas in a private jet laid on for him courtesy of one of the mob hotels there.He is sufficiently intelligent to realize that actually owning his own Lear jet would not make him any happier.Later on he takes peyote with Christopher's girl friend and after winning in one of the casinos observes a desert sunrise with her.He exclaims to the sunrise ,"I get it ,I get it" in a moment of epiphany.However the next and final three episodes see his downfall. In the episodes earlier in series six when Tony is in in a coma he experiences a parallel existence in which he meets some Buddhist monks who accuse him of defrauding them.This introduces the idea of karma which is essentially that the bad actions you commit will eventually catch up with you and you will in the end reap just what you sow.This is a essential truth of human life which must be obvious to any thinking person.The Sopranos is about the workings of this law of karma.Tony Soprano and his associates have made a Faustian bargain in that their wealth and power come from a tainted source who in the end demands they keep their side of the bargain by handing over their body and soul.