The Sopranos Sessions

Matt Zoller Seitz, Alan Sepinwall, Laura Lippman , David Chase

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THAM
08 January 2019

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On January 10, 1999, a mobster walked into a psychiatrist's office and changed TV history. By shattering preconceptions about the kinds of stories the medium should tell,The Sopranoslaunched our current age of prestige television, paving the way for such giants asMad Men, The Wire, Breaking Bad, andGame of Thrones. As TV critics for Tony Soprano's hometown paper, New Jersey'sThe Star-Ledger, Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz were among the first to write about the series before it became a cultural phenomenon. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the show's debut, Sepinwall and Seitz have reunited to produceThe Sopranos Sessions, a collection of recaps, conversations, and critical essays covering every episode. Featuring a series of new long-form interviews with series creator David Chase, as well as selections from the authors' archival writing on the series,The Sopranos Sessionsexplores the show's artistry, themes, and legacy, examining its portrayal of Italian Americans, its graphic depictions of violence, and its deep connections to other cinematic and television classics.

By: Matt Zoller Seitz, Alan Sepinwall
Introduction by: Laura Lippman
Contributions by: David Chase
Imprint: THAM
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 237mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 42mm
Weight: 730g
ISBN: 9781419734946
ISBN 10: 1419734946
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 08 January 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Matt Zoller Seitz is the television critic for New York magazine and the editor in chief of RogerEbert.com. He is the author of Mad Men Carousel and The Wes Anderson Collection. He lives in Brooklyn. Alan Sepinwall is currently the television critic for Uproxx.com. Prior to Uproxx and HitFix, Sepinwall spent fourteen years as a columnist for the Star-Ledger of Newark, New Jersey. His thoughts on television have appeared in the New York Times, Time, and Variety. He lives in New Jersey. Laura Lippman, a New York Times bestselling novelist, has won every major mystery-writing prize in the United States and has been named of the essential female crime writers of the last one hundred years. She lives in Baltimore with her husband, David Simon.

Reviews for The Sopranos Sessions

The book, being published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the show's premiere, includes highly detailed recaps of each episode; several interviews the two authors conducted with the series creator, David Chase; a debate about the much-discussed final moment of the final episode; and writings by Seitz and Sepinwall that were published in The Star-Ledger, the New Jersey newspaper, when The Sopranos originally aired. -- The New York Times To celebrate the show's 20th anniversary, TV critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz take a deep dive, breaking down every episode and talking with tight-lipped creator David Chase -- Rolling Stone The two veteran critics offer in-depth, episode-by episode analysis of one of the greatest TV series ever -- Entertainment Weekly 20 years on from The Sopranos' first episode, new book The Sopranos Sessions is a compelling, insightful dive into the show's legacy... [...] I haven't re-watched The Sopranos for years, but that's set to change as a result of The Sopranos Sessions, which has re-invigorated - and deepened - my love for the show. You may not be as intense a fan of The Sopranos as I am, and that's okay. This is a perceptive, lucid, engaging and above all versatile book that could serve as a series companion, a read-me-in-the-toilet tome or a TV-studies text book depending upon your level of interest, and fluency, in the show. There's something for everyone. All legacies fade, but until David Chase's prediction for The Sopranos comes true - in I hope not for another few million years or so - Seitz and Sepinwall deserve to be part of that legacy. -- Den of Geek Just as The Sopranos elevated the medium of television, Seitz and Sepinwall raise the status of TV writing to new heights. -- Library Journal a must-read for any Sopranos fan -- UPROXX a hefty compendium containing detailed recaps of all the show's 86 episodes, along with contemporaneous clips of their original coverage and - most excitingly - 85 pages of new interviews with Chase -- WBUR's The Artery features seven in-depth interviews with series creator David Chase and the intelligent commentary on the series readers came to expect from authors Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall. -- The Star-Ledger