The Soypranos
-Every Italian character in the show is fat/old/idiotic.
-There is an extended scene of Tony's daughter being fucked by a half-black nerd after Tony warned him to stay away from her. He just fucks her anyway without consequence. Later in the series, Tony curb-stomps a fellow made man just for touching her face. iirc she was away at college, so I guess Tony didn't know, but the audience is forced to watch it like a humiliation ritual.
-Tony argues with his daughter about black crime statistics, and he's correct, but she gets the last word in with the long-debunked "purely economic factors" argument. By giving her the last word, the show's trying to communicate to the audience that she's correct and Tony is just a stupid racist. Even though he's right and she's wrong.
-In the entire show, the only time black people are doing anything wrong is when they're working for Italians. They are completely innocent and whenever they're fighting against Italians, the Italians started it and are also fighting unfairly. The Italians also use them to carry out hits and then betray them.
-Tony gets shot and when he wakes up in the hospital, an obnoxious pushy young-earth creationist starts bothering him. This is a completely new character introduced for no reason other than to complain about pushy young-earth creationists. Instead of just being polite to him, Tony inexplicably starts arguing in favor of abortion. It's completely out of nowhere, and Tony's uninformed position is, of course, against the Church. Granted, so is Tony's entire lifestyle, but that's at least one topic that doesn't cost him anything to *not* be a heretic about. It's so random and out of place. It was just a *retarded* scene entirely, it didn't fit in at all and seems to only have been thrown in because the writer was in a bad mood and wanted to show the difference between a dumb ignorant zealot vs an enlightened liberal cradle-Catholic. See? Even this murderer knows that abortion is good.
-Tony's priest almost has sex with his wife, playing the tired trope of "pervert priest". It's a miracle he didn't do it.
-Tony's priest for some reason suggests all kinds of different non-Christian "spiritual" books to Tony's wife. You'd almost think that he's one of those freaks on Tiktok who just bought a priest collar, but no, we see him in the church as well. Sometimes he's even doing his actual job and is cool. It's just bizarre.
-When one character wants to whack his fellow made man for insulting his wife, he's told he can't because they have rules. For literally no reason, he complains "DA CHURCH HAS RULES TOO, AND DEY BREAK EM ALL DA TIIIME!" As if that's actually an argument instead of just pointless slander of the Church.
-A high-ranking guy's father dies, and he freaks out at the funeral because a man had arranged the body with a Rosary with a medal of Opus Dei, a strict Catholic order. The scene exists to establish that the character-- Carmine Junior, is progressive(not Catholic) and doesn't tolerate that "fundamentalist shit".
-When Vito is revealed to be gay; even though he destroys 2 marriages, abandons his children, and has been endangering his wife's health for years, the entire arc is about how unfair and backwards everyone is for not supporting him.
-The entire series is an advertisement for SSRIs, which have destroyed countless people's lives. Tony's put on them, his son's put on them, his son's friends are put on them, they're constantly evangelizing for them throughout the entire series. Despite showing some of their side-effects, it's generally portrayed as a good thing for them, even though Tony spends half of the series lying in bed.
-The entire show was born out of the creator's mommy issues. Fucking boo hoo, forgive your mother. Jesse Lee Peterson would have a field day with this guy.
Everyone loves posting Tony saying "You're looking at them, asshole" when asked by an Orthodox Jew where the Romans are, and sure that's BASED but how about the fact that they were literally just given a history lesson about how weak the Romans were?
"900 of us held off 1500 of you, goy :^) thoughts?"
"W-well we're the new Rome..."
I saw someone say that the story isn't true, but what difference does it make? The audience doesn't know that. You think that was written so historians can go "Ahhhh, that story wasn't true, they actually DIDN'T hold them off! Rome W!"
That scene's a perfect representation of the entire show. A completely mixed bag, but ultimately NOT based. (btw how about the fact that Tony proceeded to viciously rip off the Jews?) The Sopranos is loved by people the writer doesn't. I can't pretend it's something that it's not. It's not based, it's not redpilled. It's cringe and bluepilled. There's nothing in The Sopranos that couldn't be made today, people who believe that because they see a clip of Tony being BASED for a second just don't understand subtext. The show is extremely "progressive."