But Lately, I’m Getting the Feeling That I Came In at the End

Writing in The New York Times Magazine this past September under the headline "Why Is Every Young Person in America Watching The Sopranos?," Willy Staley sought to explain the resurgence of interest in The Sopranos that has taken place over the past two years or so. Exemplified by the popularity of the recent podcast Talking Sopranos and the fact that the number of streaming hours of the show increased threefold during the quarantine, Staley sought to answer why the show had surged to the forefront of minds once again, including of those who would have been too young to have watched The Sopranos when it originally aired.