Oh, it's fab all right. I don't watch a great amount of telly these days but this is as close to "appointment tv" as it gets. And Lorraine Bracco is a babe, and James Gandolfini is intensely cool, kind of like Al Pacino only more down to earth. Even the soundtrack by Alabama 3 sounds great in the context.
Americans make a lot of trashy television, no doubt about it, but when they get it right, they get it right with knobs on.

Tez.