Who wouldn’t love ‘The Sopranos.’ Everyone across the globe, across culture will sure get hooked once he or she started to watch the hit TV series - - be it on accident or encouraged by a friend.

‘The Sopranos’ with James Gandolfini as the show’s biggest star, recently nabbed the No. 1 spot of the Top 101 TV shows of all time released by the Writers’ Guild of America.

This is the first time a list has been assembled by an entertainment group like the WGA but it was not surprising to have HBO’s multi-awarded American television drama created by David Chase.

Conceptualized in 1999, the show certainly had a good run until its last season aired on June 10, 2009. The series looks into the life of Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano, who is based in New Jersey and focused on how he had balanced his life as the head of his family and the crime organization he led.

It was a show like no other. Each episode which runs from forty to sixty minutes would always leave its devoted followers wanting for more. Who wouldn’t love to see Tony (James G) get so torn as to how he would avoid his psychiatrist. It was a twist in the character of a mobster than you wouldn’t expect injected in the series but it did and it was great!

A burly, big mobster in Tony, needing a psychiatrist? Remember how Tony would control his feelings for the Dr. Psychiatrist? He dreaded the day of his appointment because he was afraid he would kiss her. It was fun watching him waking up from a dream (or was it a nightmare) kissing another woman, while he was in bed with his wife. Not every day you see a mobster so sensitive in Tony Soprano.

And the show was well-written. Writers used symbolism and parallelism like no other. Admit it, it made you smile to hear Tony talk about his “cleaning” business when he meant “cleaning out people he was ordered to murder by boss bigger than him.” The same term he used when he asked his people to do the dirty work.

Incorporating the goodness in a murderer was no easy. The writers of the show succeeded in coming up with sequences that will represent the good side of Tony Soprano as a father, a child, and a husband. And yes, a patient for his favorite psychiatrist. And James G, with his writer was also able to portray the real ugly side of Tony as the leader who never regrets killing people.

Want a re-run? Not a bad idea.

Details of the show’s plot and cast of characters can be found here. Get teased, scroll further down and check out the final scene and ending of the “The Sopranos.”

To view the complete list of the Top 101 WGA’s Best TV Shows of all Time, scroll down. 17 of the top 100 shows are still on air, according to The Los Angeles Times. These include “The Simpsons,” “Saturday Night Live” “The Daily Show,” “Homeland” and “Louie.”
101. “The Sopranos”
2. “Seinfeld”
3. “The Twilight Zone”
4. “All in the Family”
5. “MASH”
6. “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”
7. “Mad Men”
8. “Cheers”
9. “The Wire”
10. “The West Wing”
11. “The Simpsons”
12. “I Love Lucy”
13. “Breaking Bad”
14. “The Dick Van Dyke Show”
15. “Hill Street Blues”
16. “Arrested Development”
17. “The Daily Show”
18. “Six Feet Under”
19. “Taxi”
20. “The Larry Sanders Show”
21. “30 Rock”
22. “Friday Night Lights”
23. “Frasier”
24. “Friends”
25. “Saturday Night Live”
26. “The X-Files”
27. “Lost”
28. “ER”
29. “The Cosby Show”
30. “Curb Your Enthusiasm”
31. “The Honeymooners”
32. “Deadwood”
33. “Star Trek”
34. “Modern Family”
35. “Twin Peaks”
36. “NYPD Blue”
37. “The Carol Burnett Show”
38. “Battlestar Galactica”
39. “Sex and the City”
40. “Game of Thrones”
41. “The Bob Newhart Show”
42. “Your Show of Shows”
43. “Downton Abbey”
44. “Law & Order”
45. “Thirtysomething”
46. “St. Elsewhere”
47. “Homicide: Life on the Street”
48. “Homeland”
49. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”
50. “The Good Wife”
51. “The Colbert Report”
52. “The Office” (British version)
53. “Northern Exposure”
54. “The Wonder Years”
55. “L.A. Law”
56. “Sesame Street”
57. “Columbo”
58. “The Rockford Files”
59. “Fawlty Towers”
60. “Moonlighting”
61. “Freaks and Geeks”
62. “Roots”
63. “Everybody Loves Raymond”
64. “South Park”
65. “Playhouse 90”
66. “The Office” (U.S. version)
67. “Dexter”
68. “My So-Called Life”
69. “Golden Girls”
70. “The Andy Griffith Show”
71. “The Shield”
72. “Roseanne”
73. “24”
74. “Murphy Brown”
75. “House”
76. “Barney Miller”
77. “I, Claudius”
78. “The Odd Couple”
79. “Star Trek: The Next Generation”
80. “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”
81. “Upstairs Downstairs”
82. “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”
83. “Get Smart”
84. “Gunsmoke”
85. “The Defenders”
86. “Sergeant Bilko”
87. “Justified”
88. “Band of Brothers”
89. “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In”
90. “The Prisoner”
91. “The Muppet Show”
92. “Absolutely Fabulous”
93. “Boardwalk Empire”
94. “Will and Grace”
95. “Family Ties”
96. “Lonesome Dove”
97. “Soap”
98. “The Fugitive”
99. “Louie”
100. “Late Night With David Letterman”
101. “Oz

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