So have you watched the Sopranos?

If not, hit pause and just go watch all seasons

and then come back in a couple of weeks and start this again.

The first season of the Sopranos

is 13 episodes long.

The Sopranos obviously is one of the greatest achievements ever

in American drama, certainly in contention

for one of the greatest television shows ever made in any country on any subject.

But in season one of the Sopranos, you have to get through like half the whole season.

I think you have to get to the seventh episode or something before you get

anything that seems like it is a backstory on your lead character. So I mean here's a

story about a man in therapy.

Yes, he's a gangster, but he's a man in therapy.

So you think right from the very start of the very first episode,

you're going to get, you know, therapy speak.

Tell me about your childhood.

But it's not until seven episodes into it

that we finally get a glimpse of Tony Soprano

as a little kid.

In that scene, here's young Tony. His uncle comes looking for Tony's dad. Tony's dad hops in a car and takes off with the uncle. Tony himself, the kid, ends up missing the school bus,

and while he is not at school, he ends up finding his dad and his uncle

and seeing what they were up to.

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