I watched 4 and a half seasons of this. I demand answers. Wtf is this about?

I think the clear answer here is that the show just isn't for you, which is fine, but the question for you is why did you watch so much of it? Clearly the entire world was in love with it after season 1--if you watched season 1 and weren't in love with it (quite the opposite, it seems), why did you bother to continue? You clearly weren't seeing it how others were, no worries, move on, don't watch another 50 hours of a show you don't like to then come complain about it on a message board.

If you honestly are looking to an answer to "what is this show about?" it's basically a character study of a man who happens to be a mobster and also a family man in therapy. And his family and associates. If you enjoy watching these characters, you'll enjoy the show; if you don't, you won't. You seem to fall into the latter. No biggie.

If you're unwilling to put in the time to finish it in its entirety, you don't really have much point beyond it not being for you.

And yes, the kids are annoying, AJ more so, but he was meant to reflect what Tony disliked in himself

Ant1238 gave a simple and direct answer and you ignored him...I'd also like to know why the hell you watched for so long if you weren't enjoying it!

Ever watch mob movies?
Ever watch a soap opera?


▶️This is a mob opera.◀️

If it's not for you, that's fine. The only mob movie I ever liked was The Godfather - the rest I've seen once if at all and don't watch them when they're on TV, but this had interesting characters in my opinion.

The dynamic between the fake and real him is interesting to me. Who is Tony? The one at home? The one in the mob? The one who talks to the therapist?

I always found it to be about how, no matter who you are, you're going through the same crap as anyone else. Here's this huge mafia kingpin who is having anxiety attacks, has weight issues, is trying to have a work/home balance, has a spendy wife, has mommy issues, and deals with two brats who don't appreciate him.

Tony's up there as the biggest anti-hero on TV with Vic Mackey and Walter White.

It's about getting you hooked enough to watch a few seasons. You were intrigued, were you not?

I think the point of this show, like Game of Thrones, and all serialized multi-season TV dramas is to get you to watch the next episode.

It's a moneymaking gimmick to get high TV ratings and beat the competition. That's why shows like this go for so many seasons. Just to get you to keep watching.

That's why we have like 8+ seasons of Breaking Bad , and 12 seasons of Walking Dead. It's just giving people the same thing over and over again, once you get them hooked. I never watched Sopranos, I have no inclination to watch it. Sopranos is one of those '90s' shows that went on far too long, with too much praise. Just like The X-Files. There's another "90s" show that everyone talks up and praises to no end. I finally got around to watching it , and it was like rejected Twilight Zone episodes. Gimmicks at the end of the episode that went no where.

X-Files was designed to get people to watch the next episode. Which it succeeded at, and thus went for 11 seasons, and Sopranos just found another gimmick to exploit until people finally got sick of it.

Then, they do a big finale multi-part TV event, which all the critics go crazy about, saying it's the best Television we've ever seen in our entire lives. That's "the Sopranos". Over-hyped garbage from an over-hyped network (HBO).