The Sopranos and The Wire Lost Too Many — A Toast to the Ones We Miss

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The Sopranos and The Wire Lost Too Many — A Toast to the Ones We Miss

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The Sopranos and The Wire Lost Too Many — A Toast to the Ones We Miss

Television has never produced two shows like The Sopranos and The Wire in the same era. And it has never lost so many of its giants so soon.

James Gandolfini. Tony Sirico. Dominic Chianese survived them both, but the void left by Tony and Paulie Walnuts is something Sopranos fans carry quietly.

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Gandolfini died in Rome in 2013 at just 51. Sirico — who famously requested his character never become a rat, a condition written into his contract — left us in 2022.

From The Wire's side, Michael Kenneth Williams — Omar, the man who walked those streets with nothing but a shotgun and a code — was gone too soon in 2021.

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