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29 of 86 episodes. Skipping the rest saves 2d 7h — 1d 4h to watch instead of 3d 11h.

Twenty-nine of eighty-six. Built by reading every episode rather than by taking premieres and finales - an earlier cut did that and lost Richie's arrival, Ralph's exit and Kennedy and Heidi, three of the most consequential hours in the show. The Sopranos resists compression more than most: a third of it is load-bearing.

For a first pass, or a rewatch you do not have eighty-six hours for.

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Where the story lives

Carmela and the house
13/42 kept
The crew and the business
12/40 kept
New York
7/13 kept
Therapy with Dr. Melfi
5/10 kept
Livia, Janice and the mothers
3/11 kept
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The path

Tick episodes off to track where you are. Turn on spoiler hiding below if you have not seen it yet.

Season 15 in the path
The panic attack that sends him into therapy, and the two lives he has to keep apart.

A mobster passes out at a family barbecue and seeks therapy to understand why.

2 skipped — what you missed
Two episodes settling him into therapy, with his mother and his nephew both causing problems.
A death leaves a vacancy at the top, and his son works out what his father does.

Jackie's death leaves a power vacuum, Brendan's death leaves Chris fearing for his life, and Anthony's discovery of what his father really does leaves him confused.

A college tour, and the clearest statement the show ever makes about what he is.

While visiting colleges with Meadow, Tony spots a snitch. Carmela, meanwhile, discovers something about Dr. Melfi.

6 skipped — what you missed
Six episodes: the family business under FBI attention, his uncle's standing in question, and a traitor suspected.
The stress tells, and a decision is taken about him without his knowing.

The stress Tony is going through begins to take its toll, and the hit Junior has ordered doesn't help.

He starts cleaning house, and the season resolves inside the family rather than outside it.

Tony starts cleaning house, while Artie feels torn between keeping the peace in his household, and getting even with Tony for destroying his restaurant.

Season 24 in the path
A friend returns from months away, a sister arrives, and neither is quite what they seem.

Pussy returns after months in hiding, Chris starts a boiler room stock operation, and Tony's long-lost sister shows up on the doorstep.

1 skipped — what you missed
One episode: his uncle leaves prison on health grounds, and his mother's health declines.
Ten years done, and a man walks out of prison expecting the world he left.

Richie Aprile gets out after ten years in prison and starts reasserting his authority while unaware of the changes made in the crime family's archetype. Meadow gets in trouble after a party gets out of hand.

8 skipped — what you missed
Eight episodes - a trip to Naples, promotions and demotions in the crew, and a friend whose loyalties are visibly splitting.
An engagement, a temper, and the point that man goes too far.

Richie and Janice get engaged, but Richie's violent temper finally takes him too far. Tony, meanwhile, breaks up with Irina, much to her dismay.

Food poisoning, a fever dream, and a truth he has been refusing to hear.

Tony gets sick from food poisoning and blames Artie's restaurant. Pussy, meanwhile, reaches the end of the line.

Season 36 in the path
1 skipped — what you missed
The second season resolves; the third opens with the FBI trying to get inside the house.
A death in the family, and a funeral where everyone says what they think.

Livia dies of a stroke, bringing the family together one more time for the funeral where old tensions resurface.

1 skipped — what you missed
One episode in which Christopher is made.
Melfi is attacked, the courts fail her, and she has to decide what to do about it.

Dr. Melfi is brutally attacked, and when the justice system lets her down, she must consider asking Tony for help.

1 skipped — what you missed
One episode: a joint therapy session goes badly.
A new captain shows what he is capable of, and Tony has to decide what he will tolerate.

Noah and Meadow's relationship is disrupted by her roommate, while Ralphie starts getting rough with one of the strippers from the Bada Bing causing Tony to intervene and questionably violating one of the mafia codes of conduct.

4 skipped — what you missed
Four episodes - a new captain settling in, Meadow's boyfriend, and a woman Tony should not be seeing.
Two men, a frozen wood, and a simple job that goes wrong.

While Silvio has the flu, Chris and Paulie run his collections for him, which results in the pair getting lost in the woods and nearly freezing to death while Tony's affair with Gloria goes sour.

A relationship he cannot control, and a young man who has run out of chances.

Gloria grows increasingly demanding until Tony realizes who she is, and Jackie Jr. ends up in very serious trouble when Chris realizes who he is.

The decision on that young man, and who gets to make it.

Ralphie issues his final decision on the fate of Jackie Jr., Anthony Jr. faces military school after getting expelled, Paulie and Ralphie have a financial conflict while the FBI assigns Adriana a new "friend."

Season 42 in the path
8 skipped — what you missed
Eight episodes and a season change: a racehorse, a marriage cooling, and Christopher's habit worsening.
The captain from season three steps over a line, and the reckoning is immediate.

Ralph's callous behavior finally steps over the line, while Chris gets deeper into his heroin habit.

3 skipped — what you missed
Three episodes of suspicion about that reckoning, and Carmela drifting further away.
A house on the water, and the argument that has been coming for four seasons.

Junior's trial comes to an end, but Tony's trials are just getting underway. Also, the Sopranos almost purchase a house on the beach.

Season 53 in the path
The class of 2004 comes home, and a cousin arrives with a claim on Tony.

Some of the old guards are released from prison and want to get back in the action. Chris and Paulie are at each other's throats over matters of money and respect, and Tony decides to tell Dr. Melfi what's really on his mind.

10 skipped — what you missed
Ten episodes of a cousin failing to go straight, and a young woman squeezed from both sides.
A car journey, and the season's turn.

Tony makes a request to Johnny Sack on behalf of his cousin, and Adriana makes a request to the FBI, followed by one to Chris.

The consequence, and what Tony does about his cousin himself.

Tony realizes that he must take care of family messes himself in order to keep the peace within his own clan.

Season 69 in the path
A man tries to leave the life, and the season opens on the least likely threat.

Gene Pontecorvo makes a final break from the mob life, while Junior's paranoid delusions could be the end of Tony.

Somewhere else entirely, and a life he might have had instead.

The family tries to cope with Tony's hospitalization and possibly impending death, while Tony begins to hallucinate a new life parallel to his own.

2 skipped — what you missed
Two episodes of recovery after the shooting, and a changed frame of mind.
A wedding on day release, and a secret that cannot be kept once it is seen.

Johnny Sack is granted permission to get out of prison for his daughter's wedding; Tony's on the look out for personal protection and Vito's secret double life is exposed.

5 skipped — what you missed
Five episodes: a man in hiding out of state, and Christopher's film ambitions.
New York takes its revenge, and Tony has to decide whether to answer it.

Phil takes out his revenge on Vito, while Tony grows frustrated with Anthony's lack of ambition or work ethic.

The conflict with New York turns physical, and both sides step back from it.

Tony and Phil begin an explosive conflict that puts Phil in the hospital, while Chris and Anthony both embark on new romances.

5 skipped — what you missed
Five episodes and the second half beginning - a weekend away that turns into an accounting, and old cases resurfacing.
A trip to Las Vegas, after something happens on a dark road.

Tony travels to Las Vegas, after a tragedy occurs.

Phil will not be reasoned with, and AJ is in serious trouble.

Tony fails to reason with Phil as more problems increase with Anthony when his depression worsens and he attempts suicide.

The war arrives properly, and there is nowhere left to put people.

The Beginning of the End. Phil finally puts the hits on the Soprano clan and Tony puts a hit on Phil which results in mistaken identity making everyone think its safe when its not and it results in a Death and Coma. After this happens Tony separates from his family to go into hiding as he sends Carmela, Janice, and the kids into hiding.

The last one.

Tony and his family have to stay in hiding until Phil Leotardo is dealt with. His family don't like the lifestyle they have been forced to adopt. AJ and Meadow move onto the next step in their lives. Tony confronts Junior one last time.

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