The Sense of Atumnal Doom
That was one of the reasons I loved The Sopranos throughout the run. As much as anything, the show was a study in how much pressure one guy could take and not be totally crushed.

@Tony,

Livia Seems Different in S2
I found Livia Soprano to be such a terrible, irritating presence in Season 1, that I found myself wanting her to just die and spare us all her infernal bullshit.

Gandolfini completely nails it with that one. His frustration is so utterly palpable and the line itself is so unexpected (though beautifully built up to) that I ignore the niggling voice in my head that says that Tony Soprano would never use the word "cunnilingus."

Cunnilingus and Psychiatry Brought Us To This!!
I don't think that any line in any season of The Sopranos made me laugh as hard as that one.

@tiger,

Boca wasn't HBO, Just TV
I thought that the whole serial molester (which at least was implied) soccer coach came across as "A Very Special Sopranos" episode as opposed to the show that they'd already established.

FOX hates TV shows. Like Baseball, they only air it because it makes them money.

O.J. As a Player vs. O.J. as a Murderer
The documentary kinda touched upon it briefly, but O.J. Simpson really was one of the greatest running backs that ever lived, and one of my very very favorite football players growing up. I had posters, read books, the whole nine years. And treasured the season he played for…

Let Me Be The First To Say Congrats
Even though I already have.

I Remember Being Slightly Disappointed by This
I was REALLY looking forward to The Simpsons: Matt Groening was a known quantity via "Life in Hell," and, believe it or not, the Tracy Ullman Show was one of those things that gave the fledgling FOX network a good name. Really.

No, no, no. I've been time-shifting since the mid-80s. I had every episode of Twin Peaks and The Simpsons on VHS for years. I CHOSE not to watch Buffy (or Angel) from the start. From the outside, it seemed stupid, and in the late 90s there wasn't the plethora of TV-oriented blogs/sites to tell me that I was wrong…

BTW,

@nope,

I think that my favorite Angel Barry Manilow joke came near the end of Season 4:

My wife started watching reruns between Season 3 and Season 4, but I resisted until the last third of Season 4, so Season 5 is the first season that watched from start to finish.

My analogy is that Buffy is Uncle Tupelo, a band that came along and kickstarted a whole new thing, but Angel is like Wilco: the rare spin-off that was actually better than its progenitor.

I stand corrected by the hive mind. I accept my banishment to either a hell dimension, an alternate timeline or the sideways universe.

Which may be one of the reasons that it's such a great moment when Buffy bursts out in laughter to the overly dramatic "I am Dracula" pronouncement.

Underrating The Sopranos? Not on my watch!
Yeah, I'll agree that it got a bit underrated: I think that the extended dream sequences, the zillion years between seasons and the controversial finale all contributed to that.