Born Under a Bad Sign

The final episode of The Sopranos airs in an hour so as I write. I'll miss it, but it's also nice to know the end of such a great work of art is coming. That way you can prepare for it, hopefully better than Tony has prepared for what I suspect might happen tonight.

There has been an insane amount of writing about the series over the last few weeks, but here are my three favorite recent pieces:

In "Yeats meets The Sopranos," Slate's Meghan O'Rourke talks about the use poetic and visual symbolism in the show.

Peggy Noonan's WSJ piece on Friday outlined why she thinks the show is a "masterpiece," but she asks what motivates show creator David Chase.

I unwittingly answered that for her in my Baltimore Examiner piece that also ran Friday morning.

Cross-posted at PoliticalMavens.com