For six seasons between 1999 and 2007, The Sopranoscontinually upended audience expectations of what a “mob show” could be. Major events often unfolded at a slow, methodical pace, with random happenstances just as likely to claim the life of a character as intentional violence. Over the course of eight years, creator David Chase and his fellow writers dug into the creeping sense of malaise taking over America at the turn of the 21st Century, both before 9/11 and directly after.