I can sort of see what our resident bongo player means about Season Two of 'The Sopranos' being a little, well, tedious in parts.  Tony's sister is a giant pain in the ass.  On the plus side, however, we have an actor doing an excellent Al Pacino gone to seed impression and who, I strongly suspect, is a candidate for the weeds.

Re the aforementioned, part of me thinks I'm having my nose rubbed in it.  If it really was 'one of the most popular shows on TV, ever', we have to ask ourselves why.  And what did the Americans themselves get out of it?  What did it tell them about their own society?  Yet one keeps on watching, episode after episode.  It is undeniably compulsive viewing.

I don't think it will.  I think this is a much better-tempered place than it used to be - as you said yourself, a quiet corner of the internet.  Plus, no-one is attempting to pull the strings of anyone else.  Several of our posters have kind of 'discovered' one another, like Robbie and Stax, and I like that.  Brings people together.

I'm sure plenty of people will come here, to post or just to lurk, once the forum is fully functional. New people as well as returners.

Until then it's just the elite.

Just picking up on what TRS says above, I've often mused on there being a look slightly 'Beyond Ivy'.  Thierry Mugler trews with frog pockets?  Someone on the JS/PS website refers to 'cross-pollination' - which I like.  Vetra?  Paraboot?  The lovely young woman I was talking to in Nottingham UW last week had been given (I think she said) a Vetra jacket and liked it very much. 
Personally, I'm still searching for some form of 'Ivy purism' (and never getting there), but living from day to day in Brooks, Burberrys', lambswool or cashmere v-necks, plain-fronted whatevers and shoes that offer to be kind to my almost OAP feet.
Went out this morning (to buy milk and light-bulbs, wildly exciting, huh?) wearing a green quilted jacket with a cord collar.  Saw some old 'Poundshop Crusty' outside Iceland wearing what appeared to be a Millet's 'arrington (you could see the tartan lining) and I thought no, never again with the G9.  On the other hand, an olive Gant that has been mentioned on here might appeal.

Sat through 'Donnie Brasco'.  Okay but not one to be savoured, watched twice or more: unlike, say, 'The French Connection', which I never tire of seeing.

Again, 'Hill Street Blues'.  Phil Esterhaus in a rather fetching shawl cardigan, one or two decent tweed jackets on display.

Mm, we never go anywhere near a cinema nowadays, but thanks for the update, Woof.  We have a small cinema here but one of the multiplex-type places where I once spent any number of happy hours before seeing 'Alien 3' and deciding that was my lot is being torn down. 
I have a single happy memory of the cinema down the road but it involves a certain lady (not my wife), and what I did with her on a Sunday afternoon...
I guess it'll be out on DVD before Christmas.  We started Series Four the other night, but episodes two and three refused to play, hence our return to 'Hill Street Blues' (which, in many ways, is superior TV).  Lovely black actor who plays Bobby, gorgeous Veronica Hamel (also fancied by Yuca), superlative Bruce Weitz.  My old Dad and I were early addicts. 
Anyone remember that late-night thing with Robert Blake around '75-6?  Or have I already asked that? 
'Godfather Three'...  lordy lord...

My parents liked it and my younger brother tried to get me hooked on it (as well as on other series such as Mad Men) but I don’t have the patience for TV series.

'Mad Men' we did not sit through until the end. 
We watch a lot of old TV series' etc. on DVD nowadays.  Too dangerous to venture out in England after dark.  Especially wearing a jacket with darts.  The Yuca-Squad are all around us. 
My wife is hooked on 'The Sopranos'.  Even her prissy sister and brother-in-law watched it (though I expect my brother-in-law was obliged to leave the room during the blow-job scenes).  Still, they would watch elephant shit dry on their dining room wall if someone told them it was fashionable.

I gather James Gandolfini's son plays Tony S in the Many Saints.

Is 'The Sopranos' the 'greatest TV show ever', as I've just been reading (in 'The Guardian'.  Interview with the actor who plays Christopher: very nicely).  Compared to what?  This kind of thing tends to remind me of the Greatest Movie 100 lists I used to see.  'Citizen Kane' always came out on top, often followed by a decent, Saturday evening, popcorn movie like 'The Shawshank Redemption'.  How many of you have actually seen 'Citizen Kane'? 
'The Sopranos' is pretty good, very good at times, but, just around a dozen years ago, I was confidently being told 'The Wire' was the greatest TV show blah-blah-blah.  Any observations?