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The 35 Greatest TV Duos of All Time

Friendship drives so much of the emotional core of a TV show that scores of shows have led with it in the title. Take a look and see if you have a relationship similar to any of these.  read more

Sopranos Actress Denise Borino-Quinn: 1964-2010

Denise Borino-Quinn, known as Ginny Sacrimoni on The Sopranos, has passed away after a battle with liver cancer. She was 46....  read more

The 20 Best Fictional Crime Bosses

Two episodes in, and Boardwalk Empire's Nucky Johnson (Steve Buscemi) seems destined to become one of the all-time great fictional crime bosses.  read more

The 10 Best TV Dramas for Marathon Viewing

We're talking more than a fun afternoon of House or Law and Order reruns on Bravo or TNT. These dramas will compel you to call-in sick to work just so you can find out what happens next.  read more

The 10 Best TV Title Sequences

It's no stretch to say that a TV program's title sequence can be the most memorable part of the show...  read more

The 10 Best (And 10 Wonderfully Worst) TV Dads of All Time

Bad or good, these are our favorite patres familias that keep us laughing, cringing, but—most of all—watching, throughout the history of TV.  read more

Will the Lost Series Finale Take its Place in the Pantheon of Serialized Dramas?

Lost airs its final episode tonight, and three of its high-profile contemporaries, The Sopranos, The Wire and Battlestar Galactica have also aired their finales to much praise and fanfare. Their respective creators have run the press gamut elucidating—and sometimes defending—their work. Lost, however, presents the most daunting challenge as showrunners Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof have created a complex web of characters and thematic threads, all while bending not just narrative conventions but even our perception of time and space. As such, we’re taking a look at what these finales did right. Warning: The following pages contain spoilers pertaining to...  read more

The 10 Greatest Anti-Heroes

The regular-old hero has served us well for the past few thousand years, but ever since the time of that legendary literary bon vivant Lord Byron, we’ve learned to enjoy our heroes with a little bit of moral nuance. They’re human beings, just like you and I, only more cunning, erudite, world-weary, and charismatic than we could ever hope to be. But they’re also more emotionally resonant than the traditional white-knight hero precisely because they’re such deeply flawed people, grappling with eminently relatable self-doubt and moral hazard. Indeed, it’s no stretch to say that the anti-hero is usurping the heroic...  read more

The 10 Greatest Anti-Heroes: #9 Tony Soprano

TV Show: The Sopranos Actor: James Gandolfini To love Tony Soprano, boss of a New Jersey crime family on HBO’s The Sopranos, takes a certain degree of denial. Just ask his wife, Carmella, who he cheats on at every opportunity. Or his daughter, Meadow—he sneaks off from a trip visiting colleges with her to strangle a snitch. Tony is a thief, a compulsive gambler and a manipulator of the highest order, but the pathos James Gandolfini brought to the role of a capo dei capi seeing a psychiatrist for his panic attacks made it all but impossible not to root...  read more

Sopranos Creator Working on '60s Rock Movie

When you think about it, the fact that the central theme of David Chase’s new movie is music really makes sense. After all, the creator of HBO’s The Sopranos always brought music to the forefront in his acclaimed TV series, personally and meticulously selecting all the tracks played on the show. And the combined effect was an impressively eclectic collection—one that perhaps inspired this latest project....  read more