'The Sopranos' season 1: The best of the best
In homage to James Gandolfini, HBO on Demand is airing each season of "The Sopranos" over the next six months -- one season per month -- and in July, the first.
Great series are often at their greatest in their first seasons -- "The Sopranos" is a perfect example. Here are my favorite episodes from that epochal launch year, from January to April of 1999.
Just to be clear, there wasn't a bad episode in the entire bunch, so complete and so perfectly realized was creator David Chase's vision over that 13-episode run. But these seem to best distill what he set out to do -- tell a family story.
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