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^ Sopranos is a show that never looked down on its audience. It's highly dramatic, very funny, and we come to care for characters we also despise, creating a tense emotional experience. The plots are thicker than most movies and it looks as good, if not better, than most movies. It's a show that you can watch two or three times and pick out subtlties that even the most observant watcher may have missed. Anyone who watches it simply expecting a mob story will be dissapointed: the show is more about cultural transference, the weight of history, American politics/economics, and, of course, family.
Fans also dig the literary/filmic allusions, symbolism, dream sequences, references to topical debates. And it takes chances in the story telling that almost always pay off. We're constantly suprised, yet also satisfied.
So, the fuss? For me, I guess it's one of the only shows where I have never, ever said: "Gee, that was kinda stupid."
(I could post on this show forever.)
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