I sort of envy him
A friend of mine just started watching “The Sopranos.”
After all these years.
He said he is enjoying it. He is an Italian American and I suggested the HBO series didn’t exactly depict that ethnic community in a multi-dimensional way. But my friend said he hadn’t been bothered and volunteered that the show gets some things astonishingly right.
I admired his attitude. My own ethnic background is a murky blend of English/Irish/German, so I have never really identified with any one group. My closest brush with being-offended potential might have been encountering the portrayal of the backwoods Vermonters in “Newhart,” Larry, Darrell and Darrell. But I sort of liked them.
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