So long, Tony Soprano

I really need to watch The Sopranos again. I watched the first 2 seasons pretty religiously, but then I got away from it in the last couple seasons and only caught episodes here and there.

It's become en vogue to tout other shows like The Wire, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad but The Sopranos was the show that started it all. It was the best of them really.

The first episode I ever saw of The Sopranos was the one where he takes Meadow on a college tour, and to this day it's still probably the best episode of any TV show I've ever seen

The Sopranos is just that cult classic TV show that gets mentioned with some of the other greats. People always put it, The Simpsons, Seinfeld in that class of universally popular shows (I got tired of the Simpsons after a while, and especially after Family Guy came out).

I can go almost anywhere in the world and I can find people who have heard of or watched the Sopranos. I can't say the same for Breaking Bad, Arrested Development, Futurama, The Wire, and other shows of similar popularity.

And just the character himself of Tony Soprano is up there with Homer Simpson, Jerry Seinfeld, Gilligan, Spock from Star Trek to name a few of some of the most famous TV characters of all time.

Cult show? Hardly. It had widespread mainstream exposure and won Emmys.

Even though it was a drama and sometimes very dark, it has some of the best one liners of allllll time. Serious laugh out loud stuff

Cult show? Hardly. It had widespread mainstream exposure and won Emmys.

I've heard that term used with it. I do agree its a classic show. But I feel like in order for a show to be a classic, it has to be widely talked about 10, 15, 20 plus years after it goes off the air. (I think it will, but for now we'll call it a Cult Classic)

I've always thought cult classic referred to a show or movie that didn't do well in the ratings or at the box office, but had a strong and loyal following. Along the lines of Arrested Development, Friday Night Lights, The Big Lebowski, etc. Didn't The Sopranos have mainstream and critical success? Not sure that cult really applies here.

Yeah your probably right about cult classics.

The Dr. Who series is a Cult classic.