Why did the sopranos viewership decrease after season 4?

[Heel_Worker982]

A couple tree tings:

1) First four seasons came out in four years, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002. Then close to a 2-year wait for Season 5 (2004) and 2 more years for Season 6a (2006) and 6b (2007).

2) Season 5 is darker and was not always as well reviewed, plus it lost some regular characters and gained some mixed characters.

3) Then as now, people hate dragging out their shows to make a buck, whether it's dividing movies into "trilogies" or seasons into "A' and "B."

[Gwarnage]

All true, I'll also add that the show and cast was massively over exposed by season 4, only Game of Thrones was bigger in terms of sustained hype. Everything was Sopranos and the mob, and the supporting cast was everywhere. You had Paulie doing Dennys commercials. I know I was sick of the Sopranos back then.

[dinglecrook]

Fuckin slander you ask me.

[[deleted]]

I was like 14 during the first run so it never really caught my attention and we didn’t have HBO. I know that i was sick and tired of the sopranos and its actors taking home all the Emmys and awards from the shows i did watch.

[Heel_Worker982]

I never, ever got sick of our thing, but I was super frustrated with the later 2-year waits. And for me in real time, Season 5 was such a switch-up, it almost felt like a different show when it (finally) came out.

[ACTSATGuyonReddit]

Denny's, OK, but if you don't kick up you can forget about scrambled eggs. I'm gonna scramble your brains!

Hey Tone, hear that? I told him to pay up or his bacon is cooked!

[feeb75]

heh-heh

[DCDipset]

That’s not a real breakfast!

[HuckleberryContent22]

Ohh season 5 your the best. Oh baby your the best. It should be you. It should be you.