images.jpgThe Sopranos is coming to an end. So far the final season has been a massive bloodbath with several key characters getting whacked. I’ve enjoyed the Sopranos mainly because I’m part Italian and I like how the cast is mostly Italian-American.

The portrayal of the Sopranos as a typical Italian-American family has been very accurate. The family dinners. The passionate discussions with lots of hand gestures. The butchering of the Italian language. How in the world does gabagool = capicola. (Yes, I know it’s the southern Italian dialect.) However, the Sopranos has received a lot of flack for portraying Italians as mafia. I think Hollywood with movies like Godfather, Goodfellas, Casino, et. al. had more to do with this stereotype than the Sopranos. Most Italian-Americans I know don’t have any ties to mafia. My paternal grandfather hails from Sicily, a hotbed for mafia, and despite the many years I’ve worked on my genealogy I can’t find any link between my family and the mafia.

I am looking forward to the last episode of the Sopranos which airs on Sunday for two reasons:

One, the writers were building the storyline to one final showdown between the Soprano crew based in Jersey and the Leotardo crew based in Brooklyn. Incidentally, I have roots in both places. Two, I can’t wait to get rid of HBO. Other than the Sopranos there’s no reason to get HBO. Who really wants to watch reruns of Cheaper By the Dozen 2 and Pride and Prejudice?

By the way, the Sopranos had their fingers in real estate:

In Episode 38, Carmela studies for the real estate exam.

In Episode 46 Tony and the crew used bogus real estate deals to con money out of the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. Subsequent episodes, 50 and 51 focused on this scam.

Carmela begins a spec house with her father that is wrought with numerous delays. Episode 71, 75, 76, 77 follows her ordeal.

In Episode 73, Tony is involved with a real estate agent who’s persuading Tony to sell one of his stores to Jamba Juice.

So their you have it, the Sopranos is tv worth watching especially if you’re Italian and in the Mortgage/Real Estate business.

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