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I’m surprised that Sopranos made the transcendent finale list, and equally surprised that Six Feet Under didn’t make it (and isn’t even in the review.) Six Feet Under wrapped everything up so perfectly. The Sopranos, as much as I enjoyed it, did not have a finale that lived up to the show.

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It would have been an invalid article had it not included The Sopranos! The Sopranos did have the perfect ending. It's been debated and will continue to be debated till the end of time, and I loved it.

My take: life continues and Tony keeps doing what he's been doing, which fits the entire theme of the show: The more things change, the more things stay exactly the same.

Funny - I heard about the finale before I saw it, so I figured there would be a lot of ambiguity, but it was quite obvious to me that it was “lights out” for Tony so to speak. I suppose that speaks well for it that we are able to take our own meaning.

Six Feet Under had arguably the greatest finale of all time. It's been like fifteen years since I watched it and I still think about it.

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