For six seasons between 1999 and 2007, The Sopranosregularly upended viewers expectations of what a “mob present” may very well be. Main occasions typically unfolded at a gradual, methodical tempo, with random happenstances simply as more likely to declare the lifetime of a personality as intentional violence. Over the course of eight years, creator David Chase and his fellow writers dug into the creeping sense of malaise taking up America on the flip of the twenty first Century, each earlier than 9/11 and instantly after.