Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #453 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-11-27
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Dutch, English
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 720 minutes

Synopsis
The personal and professional exploits of Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) continue in the sixth series of award-winning drama THE SOPRANOS. This time round, Tony faces heightened tension between the New York and New Jersey families over Johnny Sack's (Vince Curatola) imprisonment. Christopher (Michael Imperioli), Paulie (Tony Sirico), and Silvio (Steve Van Zandt) still keep their eyes on the business end of Tony's life, while Anthony Jr (Robert Iler) and Meadow (Jamie Lynn Sigler) learn some tough lessons as the offspring of a notorious mob boss. As always, Dr. Melfi (Lorraine Bracco) is on hand to fend off Tony's advances and steady his nerves through her therapy sessions. A selection of episodes from the show's sixth series are collected here.

Customer Reviews

Life controls Tony
seem to have a different opinion from so many other viewers, since I really enjoyed the first half of season six. Seeing Tony get shot, not by season one's physically and mentally vigorous Uncle Junior, as I had kept anticipating that season, but by the toothless demented Uncle Junior, believing he was shooting someone else entirely was priceless irony. I loved the part with Tony in the coma in our world, while -wherever he was - he was exactly what he had always dreaded being - a nobody. Worse, he's a traveling salesman who is "trapped" and unable to get home. When Tony comes out of his coma, he vows to change and take every day as a gift, but later he is gradually pulled back into his old ways, since his position as boss really gives him no alternative.

Lots of people didn't like the Vito mini-arc, but I loved it. After being outed in the most conspicuous and non-ambiguous way imaginable, Vito finds it necessary to leave town to avoid Phil's wrath. He arrives in small-town New Hampshire, and there he winds up luckier than he deserves to be. He finds love in the Morgan Spurlock look-alike cook "Johnny Cakes" at the local diner, and the two move in together. Vito's new love is even able to overlook Vito's obvious moral failings, such as his lies about his true occupation. Johnny Cakes hooks him up with a job, and Vito has escaped the death sentence that awaits him back home, with a pretty Norman Rockwell-ish life in his current situation and a shot at genuine happiness. The problem is - Vito is still Vito. To him what 99% of people face every day - rising early to go to a job that is genuine hard work for average pay - is purgatory to him. He misses the all-night card games, the big city life, and the fact that making a living there just involves sitting around a construction site and making collections. Thus Vito runs out on Johnny Cakes and goes back to New Jersey, thinking he can make things right and get back into "the life". Just in case we have any doubt Vito has changed, there is a little incident on his way back home that lays our doubts to rest.

I think the Vito arc superimposed on Tony's shooting and recovery just drive home the fact that even though these guys think they're king of all they survey, "the life" really owns them all, not vice versa. They're kidding themselves to think otherwise. Tony believed he could make things different, and Vito believed he could make things the way they had been before. Both were wrong.

There are also lighter moments. The scene with Christopher brainstorming his movie project with the "help" of his kidnapped and beaten AA sponsor is hilarious, as is his mugging Lauren Bacall just to get her gift basket. Then there's the matter of Paulie finding out he is not who he thought he was. All-in-all a worthwhile and thought-provoking 12 episodes.

However, I still think I'll wait until after season six has completed airing to buy. The series will definitely be over by then, and I am anticipating some kind of "Collector's Edition" for the whole series. I just don't want to wind up with buyer's remorse like I did with the separate seasons of "Homicide" that I bought, only to have the entire series come out in a collector's edition that was much cheaper than the individual seasons with all kinds of bonus footage to boot.

10/10.
Bee Clakre

It's is still worth it,just!
This is still a great series (or first part of series 6 it is not the full series)but something has just lost that edge for me,and what is that dream sequence for a whole episode.I think this is where Mr Chase starts to let it all go a bit arty farty.The acting is still strong it is the writing that is starting to run out of steam,and dont mention the final scene of the final episode....but that is a different box set of course.

Help
I realise this may be a bit cheeky, but can someone tell me, does series 6 start off with the hospital story or was that series 5. Don't want to give any storyline away for anyone who hasn't seen it yet but I'm lost, don't know whether I've seen series 5, Series 6 or the final episodes.
Can someone let me know without giving anything away?