My Life With The Sopranos.

Earlier this year from January to June I discovered  a world which I would drop into regularly every week and catch up on the life of its inhabitants.The world was that of a family of Italian American gangsters living in New Jersey - The Sopranos.I have always liked gangster films my favorites being Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Parts 1 and 2 and Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time In America. Both The Godfather Part 2 and Once Upon A Time In America share excellent performances by Robert De Niro . My favorite gangster films shared a setting in the New York of the earlier part of the 20th century the 20s ,30s and 40s.When Martin Scorsese updated the genre in Goodfellas in the early 90s by  a setting mainly in the 60s and 70s  I enjoyed watching it but did not include it with what I considered the original mythic films. When the Sopranos originally appeared I dismissed it as a Mafia soap derived from Goodfellas with which it shared  many of the actors.In January of this year having read some opinions to the contrary I decided to sit down and watch the whole of the first series. Which is where my life with The Sopranos began