The president is in hospital and Mike Pence is waiting in the wings? There’s a Sopranos scene for that.
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Maya says she and other Zoomers reviving the series are reimagining its position in pop culture too. When Tony shrugs and asks “ Is this all there is?” it hits different for a generation riding out the miserable, dying gasps of American capitalism, imperialism, and white supremacy while climate crises dismantle the country faster than any revolution could. Maya and other Gen-Z folks aren’t just watching the show for a mafia drama fix. The wave isn’t being propelled by longtime fans, but by Zoomers just discovering the show, in all its existential dread and outlandish humor. The account’s popularity coincides with a resurgence of Sopranos pop culture over the course of the year. Now over 100,000 people follow the account to see snaps of Artie Bucco with a towel on his head and Christopher wondering how Lou Gehrig got Lou Gehrig’s disease. Earlier this year, the account had around 3,000 followers. After watching (and rewatching) the series between her senior year of high school and freshman year at college, she started a Twitter page - sopranos out of context - to share screenshots from the show. Photo: a 21-year-old woman living in New York City, chuckles that she was “still very much in utero” when HBO’s The Sopranos premiered in early 1999. Simon, a 22-year-old Sopranos fan, likens watching the show in a pandemic year to “listening to sad music when going through a breakup.”
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