Hbo investigates the success of the Sopranos Media essay
Premiere of the fourth season of The Sopranos. viewers, record for HBO and for all cable channels this year and third most-watched program on cable television, chart of programs. Abstract. HBO's series "The Sopranos" has been studied academically through the various optics it invites: psychoanalytic theory, gender studies, the genre's playful self-referentiality, and so on. It could be any of these things, but here The Sopranos is seen as if it were essentially a piece of existentialist philosophy. A new image purporting to promote a new Sopranos series starring Michael Gandolfini has made the digital rounds. David Chase's smash hit HBO series The Sopranos captured a lot of attention in the early to mid-2000s. Viewers couldn't get enough of the late James Gandolfini's iconic mob boss Tony Soprano,