>> it was jaw droppingly violent. as it probably should be but it kind of announces the argument that hbo is taking serious doing scripted dramas. >> but hbo really in my minds comes to its own in 1999 with sapranos. ♪. ♪. ♪ woke up this morning. got yourself a gun. ♪. ♪ >> sapranos is one of the shows that was a benchmark changed a lot of things for everybody. >> the handbook. tony saprano, lead actor in a drama, we watched him. his daughter on a college tour.