the sopranos

Not sure if you caught it, but the last episode of The Sopranos was this past Sunday night. The ending was one for the ages, and after some mental gymnastics, one I think couldn't have been handled any other way. It left SO much in the air.

There has been a tremendous amount of pressure on the creator of the show as to why he did not give it a nice, neat, easy to understand ending. Tony being gunned down. Tony being taken to prison. Tony being blown up - with his family. No matter what the ending, something nice and clean and in many ways predictable.

The more I hear opinions on the ending of this story, the more I understand us as people. We want closure. In some ways, we desire closure, we need closure. But what really is the best thing that can happen to us? Living a life that isn't predictable. Living a life where everyday is an adventure. Living a life that isn't always clean, neat and tidy. Seems to be the life of choice we find for the men and women in the Bible and God works through their dirt.

Maybe David Chase is more familiar with the Bible than we might think...