[...] "The Sopranos" isn't really a television series so much as a living legend, a priceless diamond taken out of deep storage every couple of years sporting a freshly buffed sheen for its latest public viewing. Like the mob itself, the venerated HBO drama does things on its own schedule, finally returning for Season 6 after a 22-month hiatus with a dozen new episodes, followed early next year by a series-wrapping eight more installments. [...] Tony and Co. will sleep forever with the fishes -- unless, of course, creator/exec producer/guru David Chase changes his mind and opts to do, say, a "Sopranos" movie to keep the bullets firing.

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