It was genuinely funny, dry as a good vermouth, eminently quotable and — yada, yada, yada — here is an intelligent book about it. And Ms. Armstrong can write. Part of this argument is based on the show’s position as a clear forerunner of today’s golden age of television. David Chase’s concept for “The Sopranos” — “a mobster in therapy, having problems with his mother” — scans like a “Seinfeld” pitch, she writes. She reminds us that Stanley Kubrick was such a fan of the show that he had tapes sent to him in England.

Source: New York Times June 30, 2016 16:02 UTC