For the first time on Asian television, the
complete six seasons of HBO’s multiple award-winning drama
series, "The Sopranos" will unfold in three parts this year,
starting tonight, February 4, at 11 p.m. on HBO.
"The Sopranos" boasts of 21 Emmy wins
including Outstanding Drama, Outstanding Direction, Outstanding
Writing, Outstanding Lead Actor and Actress, Outstanding
Supporting Actor and Actress, and Outstanding Casting.
Starring Emmy
and Golden Globe
winners James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Nancy Marchand,
Academy Award nominee
Lorraine Bracco and Emmy
winner Michael Imperioli, this realistic, funny, intense
and full of ironies one-hour drama series from Emmy
Award-winning writer-producer David Chase ("The Rockford Files,"
"I’ll Fly Away") gives an inside look at the family life of
a modern-day mob boss.
Meet Tony Soprano: Your average, middle-aged
businessman. Tony’s got a dutiful wife, a not-so-dutiful
daughter, a son named Anthony Jr., a mother he’s trying to coax
into a retirement home, a hot-headed uncle, a not-too-secret
mistress, and a psychiatrist to whom he tells all his secrets,
except the one she already knows: Tony’s a mob boss.
Anthony "Tony" Soprano (Gandolfini, "A Civil
Action") is facing a midlife crisis and has multiple
responsibilities to his family and "Family." As a loving husband
and father, devoted son to his widowed mother (Marchand, "Lou
Grant") and a dedicated head of a "waste management consultant"
business, Tony has to cope with a strained marriage to his brash
and savvy wife, Carmela (Falco, "Oz"), and restraining his
impulsive and ambitious nephew, Christopher (Imperioli, "Good
Fellas"). After suffering a series of anxiety attacks, Tony
turns to a psychiatrist, Dr. Jennifer Melfi (Bracco, "Good
Fellas"). But for a mob boss, therapy can have serious
consequences.
Combining drama with comic irony, "The
Sopranos" reflects the absurdity of our times as well as the
very real facts about today’s suburban mob life, according to
series creator and executive producer David Chase. Part
satirical, loving homage to the influences of the great American
gangster films, part darkly comedic study of a New Jersey
Italian-American family, "The Sopranos" is the first television
series set against the family life of a contemporary Mafioso.
Set and filmed at various northern New Jersey
locations, "The Sopranos" also stars Emmy
nominee Dominic Chianese ("The Godfather: Part II") as
Tony’s volatile Uncle Junior, Robert Iler and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
as Tony’s Nintendo-worshipping son and rebellious 16-year-old
daughter; along with Vincent Pastore ("Night Falls on
Manhattan"), Steven Van Zandt (a member of Bruce Springsteen’s E
Street Band) and Tony Sirico ("GoodFellas").
Be sure to catch all seasons of the
critically acclaimed drama on HBO starting tonight at 11 p.m.
Don’t miss the first part of "The Sopranos" as two new
episodes of seasons one and two will play back to back every
Monday night at 11 p.m.
For more information on schedules and play times, log on to
www.hboasia.com.