St. Louis Post Dispatch: Sopranos changed television culture, Rapping says

An article in the St. Louis Post Dispatch on the impact The Sopranos has had on television and culture quotes Elayne Rapping, professor of American studies. "Every show before, from the beginning of television, had made the criminals the bad guys. Nobody thought TV viewers would sympathize with a criminal over the long arc of a series, but this show made you sympathetic to Tony Soprano even while you were appalled by what he did." Go to article.