“The best series on television are those in which two opposite things are true at the same time, and The Sopranos is a perfect example: it has exhausted the material and remains amazingly fresh. It’s very funny, except that it is also dead serious. This season is a lot like the others, except that it’s different, and may be the most creative and richly imagined one yet: it begins by going over old ground and yet something new and totally surprising happens.” (New York Times )