Once upon a time, episodic television followed a simple formula: The characters at the center of any given show were fundamentally good people forced to confront conflicts that could be resolved over the course of a half-hour or an hour. To show how The Sopranos changed television as we know it, let’s turn the dial back to a period when TV sets had dials. But we’ve been living in a post- Sopranos world for so long, it’s sometimes difficult to remember what TV looked like before New Jersey’s most famous fictional mob family - Tony, Carmela, Meadow and A.J., played respectively by James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Robert Iler - entered our lives on Jan. If you’re a fan of The Shield, Battlestar Galactica, Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones, you owe the show’s creator, David Chase, a debt of gratitude. Twenty years ago, The Sopranos made the airwaves safe for antiheroes and auteurist television, and also paved the way for our current #PeakTV era.
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