- towards the end where their marriage is falling apart. - i used to [bleep] your husband. - you have made a fool of me for years with these whores. - her performance in that fight is stunningly good. - cause she s jealous! [bleep] [wails] - [grunts] - let go of me! [panting, sobbing] it mattered to people what this couple was going through, and i remember feeling a real sense of responsibility about that, and giving the weight to the scene that it deserves. - what? - [breath hitches] you know what i don t understand, tony? what does she have that i don t have? - suddenly, here s this tv show that everyone s talking about, but you have to pay to watch it. you know, that s how good the sopranos was: people were paying just to see that show. - the sopranos came along and completely reestablished what the bar was.
[distant sobbing and screaming] [screaming] - excuse me. - this was one of my first and maybe it was my first binge show, which was long enough ago that it was all on somebody had recorded it on vcr. - have you been watching mrs. romano? - yeah. i ve been watching her all night. are you thinking what i m thinking? both: casket climber. - [gasps] - i want to go with you! - mrs. romano, mrs. romano! - i want to go with you! - whoa, whoa, whoa, mrs. romano. - there s a whole new level of something going on on television. it was grittier than most shows you d ever seen before, and yet something magical about it. - i think what our strategy at hbo was, in terms of audiences: not everybody has to watch a show. - [yelps] [percussive music] - but if we have different shows for different people.
- this is the week when the major broadcast networks unveil their fall lineup of shows, and every executive in hollywood knows how well the sopranos is doing on cable, which is a network problem. - i think hbo altered everything for this reason alone, is there were no commercials. - we are dependent on sponsors. there is so much we can do in terms of language, in terms of violence, and in terms of sex. - to a large degree, a lot of executives were just sanding off the edges of what was interesting. [static hums] [bright tone] - i think hbo is looking at the world and going, okay, how can we matter? for quite a long time, movies and boxing where the bread and butter of hbo. - people watch your show because you re partly an [bleep]. - and i think what we ve learned through shows like larry sanders show or oz is that we could do series television. - there s something in the air.
In a tree, lecturing about what they should do as their group. - nobody s working toward a particular goal not the silly little stuff about, oh, who s gonna sleep where? what are we gonna do? but, why are we here? - and underneath him was this woman, sue hawk, a truck driver. - i m a redneck, and i don t know corporate world law, and the corporate world ain t gonna work out here in the bush. - that was the show. - he walks around naked quite a bit. i think it probably bugs some of the guys. - whatever it takes to win here is the point. it s a game, and call it machiavellian, sure. - we had no idea that richard hatch would be the best thing to ever happen to survivor. [traditional woodwind music] - all around the country, people were on the edge of their seats, waiting for the final vote to be announced. - the winner of the first survivor competition is. [tense music] [cheering] - survivor sort of legitimized the genre. [upbeat music]
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