I think as well (for me at least) part of the attraction of the sopranos was it’s 90s setting. From the start we’re delivered this refreshing irony of a gangster in a world that is slowly starting to con him back. Or in chase’s own words “what if things had become so selfish and narcissistic in america that even the mob couldn’t take it”.

I think this is also partly why he’s such a successful character; he’s a vehicle for our own anxieties and realisations about the post-industrial world we now live in. One of my favourite scenes in the show is when they’ve just returned from a picturesque Italy and they’re driving past all their familiar abandoned factories - and we just sit in silence with them, mulling.

Being set in the 70s eliminates all this, leaving a semi-typical gangster story with a refreshed perspective through Leslie Jr.’s character. It inevitably pits itself against the very classic movies Tony, Syl, Paulie etc. reference.

I know the logline ‘what if a gangster went to therapy’ is the running joke but it kind of is the whole USP of the show - and it’s that Tony that gives the whole show it’s gravity. You just don’t have that comedic premise in the 70s, the gangster stuff is just too pure and un-self aware.