I just watched the whole series again last week and despite people slagging off the last three or four seasons, I thought it was consistently good throughout. I also noticed a conservative bent to the show that I didn't catch the first time around. For instance, in the episode where Dr. Melfi is raped, the perpetrator is released on account of the most implausible technicality I've ever heard of. There's no way that would happen in real life, but it feels like they're trying to perpetuate the canard that liberal judges are soft on crime and government can't do anything right. Then there's the episode where a rapper tries to get restitution from Hesh for records some of his family members made in the '70s but where cheated out of royalties from. The episode concludes with Hesh threatening to counter-sue the rapper after discovering he's used an uncleared sample from one his label's artists on a rap song. This creates the false equivalency that somehow the once widespread act of cheating Black artists out of their royalties is somehow the same as a rapper sampling a song. It propels this notion held by old white guys like Bill O'Reilly that after almost 40 years in existence, Rap music is not a genuine form of art or expression. I'll post up more examples if I think of them. Does anyone know if David Chase is a Republican or actively involved in conservative politics? What do you guys think? Am I just reading too much into this?

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