SHE'S SMILIN, LOOK AT THE LOOK ON HER FACE! LOOK AT HER FUCKIN FACE, LOOK!

I was thinking of doing a Sopranos character bracket but then I thought about what would happen when you degenerates inevitably vote the finals as something other than Tony vs Livia, which is the crux of the entire show and defines basically every major relationship

"You could never stand it here. You could never stand yourself."- Livia, literally 30 seconds into her first scene with her own daughter. Both a perfect takedown of Janice and the cruelest, meanest shit anyone could say to their kids

hovering back and forth between sinister conniving and pretending to be senile, right on the edge. Legitimately some of the best acting of all time by Nancy Marchand

she makes sure to drop the mask just often enough to let her children understand exactly what she is. Janice is a master con artist and she really fully understands what she's in for, who she's up against. And she's terrified

The Greatest Villain in TV History

It really shows what this show really was at heart, where its most powerful and frightening villain is a little old lady who tries to put out a grease fire with a cup of water.