The Sopranos returns tonight for its final nine episodes and I’m excited. Joey G’s confusion of thinking the Radio Happy Hour was a “no-show job” notwithstanding, I will be glued to my HBO at nine o’clock tonight. But why? Has the show been good since 2002?

Every season there are a handful of great episodes, usually involving someone getting whacked. But to get to those, we must sit through several “throw away” episodes in which nothing happens to move the story line along. We endure episode long dream sequences, trips to Paris and other random subplots that just produce more questions rather than tie up loose ends.

Sometimes I feel that I anticipate each season because of all the hype. Have they become better at marketing than they are at making quality TV?

But as much as I complain about meandering story lines and wasted episodes at the water cooler on Monday mornings, I crave a new episode. Its like the girl that teases you and frustratingly strings you along but still you wake up each morning excited to see her because of the hope that today is when she’ll give you the time of day.

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