Five years ago, a family that had captured the American imagination suddenly disappeared from TV screens with no real explanation, just as the current national soap opera, “The Santorums” abruptly ended this week.
They sit around a table, nothing untoward happens…and then fade to black. We had been mesmerized on the weekend by their daughter’s hospital stay, we were looking forward to the gang war in Pennsylvania, and suddenly it’s over.
Did something happen behind the scenes? Did the GOP dons make Santorum an offer he couldn’t refuse? What happens next?
When “The Sopranos” ended in 2007, the show’s creator David Chase offered no rational explanation but his admirers recalled his musings about what is seen on the tube:
“Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don’t add up…”
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