On June 10, 2007, less than a month after Jeff Scott Soto’s last performance with Journey, HBO aired the final episode of the popular Mafia TV show "The Sopranos," one of the most celebrated, and debated, endings in television history. Set in northern New Jersey, the series follows a modern-day “godfather,” Tony Soprano, in his travails as the leader of a secondary Italian crime family in decline. While not a comedy per se, much of the plot was comedic, starting with the premise that the lead character would be in treatment with a classic Freudian psychoanalyst (not unlike a contemporary Mafia comedy film, "Analyze This," starring Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal). Over six seasons, the protagonist gets deeper into his own angst even as the world of the American Mafia is fading.
