Nothing in the Sopranos

To howls of rage, the Supranos final episode ended in a black fade-out on June 11. For me, though, it was the pefect ending. It ended as does all life: in nothingness. A neat interpretation is that we see the world through Tony's eyes. There are certainly enough hints in the last scene that he would get killed. If he did, then he didn't see it coming. The screen and sound went dead because Tony did. That was it. The end. Nothing.

The end was as good a piece of conceptual art as the black squares painted by Ad Reinhart in the 1960s. In fact, better, since the Soprano's blackness came in contrast to the life that came before. It was a perfect interpretation of nothingness.