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The twisted tale of a stressed out mobster!

Getting my brains fried with overdose of the 'Sopranos the TV series' after managing to download Season 1-6. Just like a box set of DVD shows, this collection TV series is simply addictive. 'Sopranos' have been hailed as the best TV series of all time with 21 Emmys and 5 Golden Globes awards to boast. It falls in a genre which is somewhere between the typical mafia flick and a comedy. To say categorically that it is a comedy would not serve justice to the laughs coming from the laughing machines. It definitely does not instill that 'off the edge' nail-biting gripping experience of 'The Godfather' trilogy. The series gives us the feel of being a parody of sorts looking at the psychological stresses that a typical Italian mafia would go through the lens of a series of psychiatrist-patient sessions between the protagonist Tony Soprano and Dr Melfi in a series of flashbacks. It also pokes fun at the typical paradoxical American family who does things which...