Watch: The Sopranos Opening Credits: Every Landmark, Explained

A cigar, a Turnpike toll, and a drive from Manhattan into Jersey: The Sopranos' opening credits are a ninety-second thesis on where the American mob story moved. Watch the video above, then read the drive.

Chase has Tony drive out of the Lincoln Tunnel and away from New York, the genre's old capital, through the industrial flats and into the suburbs, past Satriale's, the Pulaski Skyway, and the refinery towers, ending at a McMansion driveway. The gun in the logo's R was removed after the first season, and the World Trade Center, visible in the rearview mirror in early seasons, was taken out after 9/11, making the credits a quiet historical record as well as a route map. "Woke Up This Morning" by Alabama 3 does the rest: a blues-electronic sermon for a man driving home to a kingdom that's already shrinking.

Quick answer: The credits trace the mob's move from New York to suburban New Jersey, and small edits across the seasons, the gun, the Twin Towers, quietly date each era.

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