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David Chase wasn't going to make it easy. For any pantheon-level TV series like
The Sopranos, creating a satisfying finale is a losing proposition. How can you end years and years of quality television in one hour and please the fans while doing so? So, David Chase turned everything on its head and left the audience asking questions with the most risky and mysterious series finale TV has ever seen. As Tony Soprano waits for his family to arrive at a diner, he throws Journey's “Don't Stop Believin'” on the juke box.
We get a long montage of the family showing up, including an extended look at Meadow trying to parallel park, and a suspicious man in a Member's Only jacket. Out of nowhere, the music stops and we cut to black for an extended period. Viewers had thought their TVs turned off. Was the black symbolic of Tony Soprano being killed? Was it just a cheap trick pulled by David Chase? Some people hated the finale, thought it was a grand cheat, but you have to give it this: it kept people talking long after the fact, and will go down as perhaps the most memorable season finale of all time, and that's nothing to scoff at.
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