>> endings are hard in general. and i think "the sopranos" was able to accomplish this thing that everybody in television is always trying to accomplish which is do something that no one has ever seen before. >> tony is meeting the family at a restaurant and we're listening to a journey song and watching as one by one the family members come in and there's these sinister people lurking around. ♪ >> you were wondering is tony going to survive this? was tony going to be shot? what was going to happen? [ muted ]. >> you're cutting to the meadow parking her car, you know. all these things that are completely normal but they're imbued with this dred.