My Life With The Sopranos.

Not only do we get to sit in on the self revelatory psycho-analysis sessions with Dr Melfi but we actually enter Tony's  interior life by the means of the Fellini style dream sequences such as those in the episode Funhouse which rounds off series 2.In this episode while hallucinating as a result of food poisoning from an Indian meal Tony is informed  by his unconscious of the the certainty of his suspicions of an FBI informer within his crime family by means of a talking fish.There is also the extended sequence in the episodes at the start of season 6 when Tony is in a coma.Here Tony could almost be in a parallel universe where he is a normal  respectable American businessman attending a West Coast sales conference .We are in effect shown what he would be like if he were not a criminal.Other recurrent themes are his love of animals such as  the ducks in his swimming pool in the first episode ,his horse Pie O My foully murdered by Ralphie and the stray cat adopted from the safe house in the last episode.